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    Default Re: Stop Sign - 22450(A)

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    Which in my opinion is BS. Police will give speeders a "buffer" of generally 10 mph before they ticket, but no buffer for rocking back on a stop. Not to mentioned that tickets are getting rarer as time goes on. Speeding seems to be the main ticket written any more. Tickets for lack of registration, unsafe vehicles, failure to use headlights, wipers, turn indicators, etc. are rare. Failure to stop at a stop sign is probably second to speeding. Heck if you wish to see an incomplete stop, go to the police station and watch how many fail to wait for their vehicles to "rock back". Also look for ones that fail to use turn indicators or head lights on foggy days. Sorry to be bashing them, but only the easy tickets are being written these days.
    Hardly BS. Loiter near a stop sign sometime and watch the cars that approach. Unless it is an extremely busy intersection, you will find that most people tap-and-go. Back when I worked patrol, on those days when I had discretionary time, monitoring a stop sign controlled intersection was a great way to rack up stops and stay busy because you could make a stop within a couple of minutes, easy.

    In CA many agencies simply don't write tickets at all these days. They don't have the time or the resources. In some agencies, patrol is prohibited from conducting traffic enforcement unless it's egregious. But, traffic officers (most often motorcycle officers) will write anything and everything as that is what they do.

    The unfortunate side effect of this state's diminished resources and lack of enforcement of infractions and misdemeanors (thanks to legislation minimizing the consequences of even lesser crimes) is that the courts are hurting for money. Infractions and misdemeanors fund courts and related programs, and those incomes are greatly reduced. Oops! Now the lost revenue will have to be made up through other funds (i.e. new or re-purposed taxes).

    If you are fortunate enough to be living in a place where the police have the discretionary time and lack of activity to actually conduct traffic enforcement and write tickets, consider yourself fortunate.

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