The point was not about the exact number, more so that despite the stricter enforcement of traffic laws in Virginia, the police themselves seem to regularly ignore the laws they are enforcing.

I use Twitter as an outlet for arguing with idiot Republicans, but I would never go after someone because some of their relatives were wearing Blue Lives Matter or MAGA gear in the background of a couple of their photos. Unless she herself actually was expressing bigoted opinions or sharing misinformation, no reason…

I mean, she (or her agent? friend? manager/relative?) didn’t have to post the photos. You could be at a party with people (my in laws have a Trump flag for chrissakes) without having to amplify it.

Also, Republicans needing a famous friend is so desperate; its like they were the popular bullies in highschool and don’t…

Yeah I’m not one to side with conservatives, and I think them trying to turn this into an even bigger thing is ridiculous, but we can’t pin this one on them. Leftist twitter behaved basically in exactly the way that people constantly accuse leftists of behaving and turned this into a thing when it didn’t need to be…

Sheesh, on I-10 west of San Antonio in Texas, if you’re going 80 you will have 18 wheelers crawling up your backside.

The cops cruise at 75mph?! Here in Jersey they will come up on your ass doing 95-100 in their Interceptor Tahoe. I shudder to think of what the gas mileage is of the State Police here as those bricks spends miles on end at 95mph.  

They actually changed it to 85 mph just recently:

Eh, sometimes they can be snippy about the surface roads too.

One of Jalopnik's former writers had to spend the weekend in jail for speeding in a press event car (Corvette, IIRC)

I don’t need to read a report to know it’s all counterproductive bullshit. I have the receipts from the speeding tickets to prove it. 

Go read the DOJ report issued in 2015 after Ferguson. It gets into how over fining and sanctioning residents for seemingly petty offenses as revenue raisers can be counterproductive and reverberate through a community. “That blade of grass next to your mailbox is out of place”.

The officer who wrote 771 seems excessive. But the next highest guy basically wrote 1 a day for ever day worked. That doesn’t seem that bad.

This happened to a town in Ohio when I was in high school.  It was dissolved and made a metric ton of money from speeding violations yet had less residents than a single Costco employees.  

ACAB, that is all.

Well if they don’t keep busy, they might get into all sorts of kooky shenanigans!

As an optimist, I have to point out that if they’re going after the mild-speeders, all the big crimes must have been solved already!

Am I to understand that some small town next to an interstate was writing tickets on the interstate where they do not have jurisdiction?

Having grown up in a small (800-ish people) town along a freeway, this isn’t a surprise. All cops in those small towns do is write traffic tickets. There’s usually nothing else for them to do.

Without all that extra income, the police department ends up furloughing some officers, while saying that the town will be worse off for it. The town will be just fine, except for a spat of property damage crimes that are eventually found to have been perpetrated by a furloughed officer (or at least directly…