Tuesday, Jan. 17

I drove my son to high school today.  Traffic around the school is a mess - cars cutting in everywhere, stopping randomly, kids walking between moving cars.  Not a traffic cop to be seen.  Just a mile from the high school in the neighborhood, there is always a traffic cop sitting on the side street with a radar gun. One day the guy in the car in front of me got pulled over for doing 3 miles over the limit - I know because I was reading email and had spaced myself a few car lengths behind.  I know of someone that got a ticket for a rolling stop.  a rolling stop....not far from where the Barney Fife is posted there have been numerous breakins and buglaries.  but no police presence to keep that crime in check.  that raises no revenue.  you should count on more selective enforcement of laws designed to bleed the law abiding middle class without exposing the cops to real criminals.  stopping real crime is too hard and will only be attempted after all criminals guilty of rolling stops have been caught.