October 13, 2019 • Automated Traffic Enforcement,
CIVIL,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
LEGISLATION,
NEWSLETTER,
POLICING FOR PROFIT,
SPEED CAMERA,
SPEED TRAP,
TRAFFIC CAMERA,
Traffic Tickets An hour away from Cincinnati, the known speed trap village of New Miami sits just north of Hamilton, the Butler County seat. Over six years ago, drivers in a class action sued this sleepy village of nearly 2,400 residents over its questionable speed camera practices. Even though the village’s program was found unconstitutional in 2014, […]
September 8, 2019 • Automated Traffic Enforcement,
DISTRACTED DRIVING,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
IIHS,
ITE,
NEWSLETTER,
PRIVACY,
RED LIGHT CAMERA,
REVENUE GENERATION,
RIGHT-TURN-ON-RED,
SAFETY,
TICKET FINES,
TICKET REVENUE,
Traffic Safety,
Traffic Tickets,
VISION ZERO The AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety took a page out of its own book, and that of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), by issuing a recent report on red-light running with a title designed to send the media into a frenzy. “Red Light Running Deaths Hit 10 Year High” did exactly that. While […]
June 16, 2019 • BLOOD WITHDRAWAL,
COLORADO,
DUI,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
FOURTH AMENDMENT,
GEORGIA,
INDIANA,
LEGISLATION,
MASSACHUSETTS,
NEWSLETTER,
POLICING FOR PROFIT,
REVENUE GENERATION,
RHODE ISLAND,
TEXAS,
TICKET FINES,
TICKET REVENUE,
TOLL,
TRAFFIC STOP,
Traffic Tickets,
WISCONSIN This time of year, many state legislatures have wrapped up their yearly bills, but courts never stop. Here are just some of the cases we have been tracking. The Colorado Supreme Court recently declared that an alert by a drug-sniffing police dog to detect marijuana and other drugs no longer provides probable cause for a […]
May 12, 2019 • civil asset forfeiture,
Driver's License,
DUI,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
FLORIDA,
ILLINOIS,
LEGISLATION,
NEWSLETTER,
NMA,
Predatory Towing,
PUBLIC RECORDS,
REVENUE GENERATION,
TICKET FINES,
TOWING,
Traffic Tickets Cities tow cars for many reasons. They are often towed when doubled parked or left in front of a fire hydrant. If there are too many parking tickets, cities will often boot first, and if the driver does not pay the tickets in a certain amount of time, the boot comes off, and the vehicle […]
May 5, 2019 • Corruption,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
NEWSLETTER,
NMA,
REVENUE GENERATION,
SEAT BELT,
TICKET QUOTA,
TICKET REVENUE,
Traffic stops,
Traffic Tickets Editor’s Note: Over the years, the NMA has received occasional contact from law enforcement officers who have complained about department policies, sometimes crafted to avoid direct violation of state anti-ticket-quota laws, which force officers to write a predetermined number of citations during each work shift. The following commentary recently submitted to us by “Officer Frank” […]
