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Originally Posted by RI Swamp Yankee
He realized most people will do 40 in a 35 zone (Don't we all!) .
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I'm certainly guilty of treating speed limits as lower limits rather than upper limits. I don't know many cops, but the ones I know are looking for the peak reading on the radar as a decision point for the pull-over and then the attitude of the driver as a decision point for the ticket.
For your Chief, perhaps the act of slowing in his presence was enough of an attitude indicator to skip the whole pull-over part. Years ago, this was probably pretty natural.
Seems like there's a lot more folks who see traffic police as nothing more than adversaries these days... I know that when they use airplanes to clock folks headed ot the beach on 101 east, and hand out tickets by the dozens, I think of them as nothing more than revenue enhancement officers.