44 Alerts From the Traffic Tickets Tag

Are Small Towns Addicted to Traffic Fines and Fees? NMA E-Newsletter #592

May 17, 2020 • ARKANSAS, Automated Traffic Enforcement, EMAIL NEWSLETTER, GEORGIA, LOUISIANA, NEW YORK, NEWSLETTER, OKLAHOMA, Parking Tickets, POLICING FOR PROFIT, REVENUE GENERATION, SPEED TRAP, TEXAS, TICKET FINES, TICKET QUOTA, TICKET REVENUE, Traffic Tickets

Editor’s Note: This article was initially written for the Spring edition of Driving Freedoms magazine. The information here pertained primarily to life before the COVID-19 crisis. Still, we believe traffic fines and fees will be even more of an issue for small towns (and big cities) everywhere due to shortfalls in the budgets that have […]

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The Selling of a Narrative: NMA E-Newsletter #591

May 10, 2020 • 85TH PERCENTILE, EMAIL NEWSLETTER, NEWSLETTER, NMA, SAFETY, SPEED LIMIT, SPEEDING, TRAFFIC CONGESTION, Traffic Tickets

By Gary Biller, NMA President The media has never shied away from peddling stories that sell. Often in doing so, the truth gets kicked to the curb or run over. Such is the case in the current lockdown climate where sensationalistic headlines scream that 100+ mph super speeders are taking advantage of less-crowded roads across […]

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Turn Signal on a Roundabout: NMA E-Newsletter #585

March 29, 2020 • EMAIL NEWSLETTER, INDIANA, NEWSLETTER, ROUNDABOUT, SAFETY, TRAFFIC STOP, Traffic Tickets

One of the most basic rules of the road is that a driver must use a turn signal when turning right or left or changing lanes. But is this the case when exiting a roundabout? The Indiana Court of Appeals says no. The case started with a 2018 traffic stop in Warsaw. According to court […]

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Twenty-Eight Years Later: NMA E-Newsletter #580

February 23, 2020 • EMAIL NEWSLETTER, NEWSLETTER, NHTSA, SAFETY, SPEED LIMIT, TICKET QUOTA, Traffic Tickets

Every so often, some spring cleaning is required to tidy up and put one’s house in order. We are getting an early start on the seasonal ritual at the NMA offices, and in the process, turned up an interesting opinion piece written by a member who is still very active today. We won’t name names […]

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Ticket Quotas are Alive and All Too Well: NMA Weekly E-Newsletter #572

December 29, 2019 • EMAIL NEWSLETTER, NEWSLETTER, NHTSA, NMA, REVENUE GENERATION, SPEED TRAP, TICKET QUOTA, TICKET REVENUE, Traffic Tickets

By our latest count, twenty states have explicit laws banning traffic ticket quotas. And yet, the practice continues, even within some of those states. City, county, and state budgets must be met, and a reliable target for revenue continues to be the motorist. A brief rundown of the states with quota prohibitions follows but first, […]

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