You cant help but be skeptical about the recent 'blitz' on Vancouver motorists. Police everywhere, writing tickets. Mostly to law abiding citizens, doing a few KM about the posted speed limits. It really pisses you off to think that we live in a city with incredible amounts of crime, both violent and property, and this is how they choose to allocate our police resources.
If you ask me, which is more urgent, the need to police roads or reduce crime, (thousands of people per month fall victim to vehicle theft alone in this city) the answer is obvious, the only reason the police are out harrassing working people is that the criminals dont have any money to pay fines.
Last week a friend of mine was stopped for making an illegal passage thru an intersection on a quiet street. The sign was obscured, and basically indicated that only buses could pass thru, all other traffic was to turn left. The real stink of the matter was, there were a total of 4 POLICE VEHICLES parked there, writing tickets out. This is an intersection 3 blocks off of West Georgia in the quiet substreets of Coal Harbour... now you tell me what was this about, public safety or filling quotas?
The good news is my friend pulled his New Zealand drivers license out, so the police have about as much chance of getting their money, as we all do of being safe from criminals, so long as there is money to be made from the people they should be protecting.
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