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In March the NYPD conducted a 24-hour sting targeting drivers behind the wheel with their cell phones, issuing 9,016 tickets during the crackdown. By the end, New York motorists got the message and never used their cellphones while driving again. Kidding—of course it didn't make a damn bit of difference, though it did make some serious loot for the city government. So now it's back to the well, starting at midnight tonight, when cops will start slapping motormouth motorists with $130 fines—$10 more than last time! After 24 hours the crackdown will conclude, and everyone can go back to distractedly steering big hunks of metal through the street with one hand.
Brief Crackdown on Drivers Using Cell Phones Starts Tonight
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With one hand and half a brain.
so they give warnings to drivers, how bout surprise crackdowns?
That awesome girl looks really good at driving, thank god I cross the street everyday believing people are paying some kind of attention.. I mean, I'm screwed.
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Specious enforcement of existing laws makes a mockery of the whole notion of traffic rules and regulations.
It's a law - it should be enforced at all times.
the reason why cops don't enforce this and many traffic violations is very simple. Cops are lazy. They could make so much bank on every violation you can think of but the cops only have a set salary. The whole reason why people join the PD is to get a cushy ass job where all you really do is hang out and walk the beat every day, shoot the breeze with your fellow officers and go on power trips. active duty is only for freshman cops, all the others could give a fuck. The police department knows this. They've made it their culture. That's why they only enforce it during certain periods, so it LOOKS like they are doing something but it's really only a small window.
You got it.
Checking out the chicks while parked near my home at Spring St. and Lafayette seems to occupy a large part of their shift.
uh, what's with these bullshit crackdowns? why not actually enforce the law, say, all the time?!
the cell phone has helped unleash an epidemic of idiocy.
Idiocy is correct. Just as bad are the moron texters on the Blackberries who walk into you all the time.
I've seen people just talking on cell phones, never mind texting, who couldn't see where they were going. It's all a matter of where one's attention is. Yes, texting is worse. Then it's attention + eyes.
If people can't pay attention to where they are going when walking and talking, imagine driving and talking. Scary.
I love screaming at those people "WAKE UP!!!"
Make it $1000 and six-month license suspension for the first conviction, and seizure of the vehicle and permanent license revocation if involved in an accident.
Absolutely. They can kill people. There is no place for leniency.
Just make the punishment hard enough that they won't need cops' presence to behave while driving. Harsh laws have great preventive incentives.
Idiot.
Exactly, it's only when the punishment has some relationship to the danger of the behavior that car drivers will give a damn. Otherwise, they're surrounded by their 2,000 lb. cocoons and insulated from any consequences of their actions.
Is that a picture of Jen Carlson?
I'd hit it...while texting.
what a crock. this should be strictly enforced ever hour of every day. i'm sick and tired of almost getting taken out by drivers on their cellphones when i'm crossing with the light! cops are some of the biggest offenders by the way!
I've seen on multiple occasions cops driving around talking on their cellphones. I'm so tired of cops feeling that they are above the law. That is what is mostly wrong with this city and generally our country : cops feeling like they don't have to obey the law because they have a badge and a gun. Until this stops we will continue to live in an oppressive police state!
I see it all the time too! Lead by example!
yeah, dont ever try to cross 12th ave (aka the west side highway to hell). way too many distracted drivers going way too fast.
No worries. I'll just be looking at google maps on my phone or searching for that new song on my ipod. See u on the BQE!
Dr. John Medina, director of the Brain Center for Applied Learning Research at Seattle Pacific University, on brain reaction times while driving while on a cell:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPB6EH2tMkE
I hope somebody shoots one of the cops out of frustration for getting such a stupid ticket.
Why is it a "stupid ticket"?
Because there are better things to issue tickets for.
Yeah, let's advocate murder over a traffic ticket, moron.
I didn't say "murder"... I said "shoot", those two things are not the same. I also didn't advocate anything, I just said I hope it happens because I like it when cops get shot. I only advocate reading comprehension classes. Cheers!
If this law was enforced "every hour of every day" cops wouldn't be able to do anything else but issue tickets. Unacceptable allocation of resourses.
EVERY cell phone these days has a speakerphone function, even if you're too poor or cool to wear a bluetooth headset.
Good. First, always crack down on this. Second, if the State won't let bridge tolls & commuter taxes through, lets make the money up by cracking down on drivers. I'm down with that.
Are they cracking down on texting as well? That's more dangerous.
No, thats fine. Also, reckless driving will now become legal unless drunk or on a cell phone. There's nothing like selective enforcement of arbitrary laws to encourage safe driving.
But it is OK to eat a big mac while driving.
Quality of life enforcement needs to go into effect.
On all levels.
It is way over-due.
I read one suggestion to cut off calls when there were several cell-handoffs over a short period of time. Great idea.
I think this is an awesome idea on the part of city government. Stop raising taxes and start slapping people with tickets. They need to start doing this with more than just cell phone using drivers. To many people out there wrapped up in their own little world not giving a crap about others. Let them pay the price for it. 10,000 tickets at $130 a pop is over a million dollars for the city. AWESOME!!