When you are doing traffic, how many MPH's over the limit do you give you targets?
I ask because my shift was recently told by our new supervisor that we 'need to stop writing chicken---t tickets' (meaning don't write a lot of tickets that the LT is going to tell the chief to throw out. Yes, tell, and, yes, they will do it without officer approval, but that's another story). Well, since I'm the only one who really works traffic, he was referring to me. State law says we give drivers 10 MPH over before we can stop them and I will usually give 15 depending on the time of day, and usually won't write one out till 17. If they don't have a bad attitude or try to give me the run around, I will help them out by knocking it down to 14 over (same fine as up to 19 over, but without points). Apparently the LT either doesn't look at the comment section where I write 'clocked at xx in a xx' and just sees the 'charged with xx in a xx', or he doesn't think speeders should be stopped till 20 over.
What do you guys feel is a 'non chicken---t' speed for a stop/ ticket?
I ask because my shift was recently told by our new supervisor that we 'need to stop writing chicken---t tickets' (meaning don't write a lot of tickets that the LT is going to tell the chief to throw out. Yes, tell, and, yes, they will do it without officer approval, but that's another story). Well, since I'm the only one who really works traffic, he was referring to me. State law says we give drivers 10 MPH over before we can stop them and I will usually give 15 depending on the time of day, and usually won't write one out till 17. If they don't have a bad attitude or try to give me the run around, I will help them out by knocking it down to 14 over (same fine as up to 19 over, but without points). Apparently the LT either doesn't look at the comment section where I write 'clocked at xx in a xx' and just sees the 'charged with xx in a xx', or he doesn't think speeders should be stopped till 20 over.
What do you guys feel is a 'non chicken---t' speed for a stop/ ticket?