Got a biased ticket

[Grizzly]

Max,

1) Motorcycle traffic cops are not homicide detectives. Motorcycle traffic cops write traffic tickets. Homicide detectives work homicides. Two completely different jobs.

2) Cops do not determine staffing levels; politicians do. Governors and Mayors make stupid speeches and campaign promises and then hand them down to Police Chiefs to accomplish. Police Chiefs declare those promises priorities and hand those priorities down through the ranks. Colonels, Majors, Captains, etc divide up their resources and determine their staffing levels to best accomplish the politicians' empty promises. In the end, the poor cop goes where he is assigned to go and accomplishes the task he has been directed to accomplish. It helps if the politician who started the whole chain of events is not a friggin' wacko, which doesn't seem to be the case in your state.

From a recent news article regarding New Orleans' homicide rate...

"Incredibly, the killing fields of New Orleans do not appear to rank high as a concern among state and local officials. The mayor, Ray Nagin, has been silent in the face of the sort of mass killing that occurred and often dismissive of it. This summer, he told a group of reporters that the murder rate "keeps the New Orleans brand out there."

You see, New Orleans' Mayor thinks the murder rate is a friggin' tourist attraction. It's easy to blame the cop, because he's most visible, but the cop's not the problem. The people who dictate the priorities and the idiots who vote for them. They're the problem. I don't know any real cops who wouldn't rather be chasing killers than speeders. Do you remember how Timothy McVeigh was caught? He was caught by an alert Traffic Officer who pulled him over for a license plate violation.