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Because it is bitch work, JSS is right.
The majority of speed traps are just that -- traps, cash grabs. Setting them up on Marine Drive, pass-through roads with arbitrarily low speed limits that no one actually follows.
Much of my family live out on the Sunshine Coast, and that one hill leading down to the ferry where the speed limit changes from 80KM to 50KM on a heavy slope, and traffic cops would setup shop, essentially fucking every person coming down the hill.
No one has ever been hurt there, it's not a pedestrian traffic area in the slightest. Same idea with the hill leading down Boundary to Marine.
It's those types of tactics that piss people off, and trigger a post like JSS made.
The other problem is the pure hypocrisy of some officers. I hang out with a few friends that are RCMP/Transit cops. They talk about being bored on shift at night (specifically a transit cop buddy), and pulling people over for DUIs, speeding, etc.
These same guys will not hesitate for a second to go out for drinks (a bunch at that) and drive home thereafter, without a single concern.
It's the hypocrisy -- the guise of being sanctimonious and above the public and beyond reproach is what pisses people off here.
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