Thread: State Troopers busted in Houston,Tx

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Originally Posted by Dave Severson

Guess I can't understand why you would be against anything designed to make the roads a safer place!!! Hard enough dodging the sober ones who are "impaired" by cell phone use, screaming kids, or whatever else they choose as a form of distraction. The drunks are almost impossible to avoid!!!!!

I am not against ANYTHING that will make are roads safer. I dont understand why you feel that it is ok for the troopers not to be doing their job to begin with, only when they were forced too. The drunk drivers are not magically appearing just to meet their Quota, they have ALWAYS been there.

I don't like quota's regardless of who is running them. Cops should be arresting every dwi outlaw they catch....legally. Not just going after someone because of a quota.

I don't belong to any kind of organization to stop drunks from driving but there is a problem and the problem needs to be solved somehow. Maybe the problem is in the courts where the drunks seem to get off too often. Fines and penalties don't seem to work, and yanking their license don't work either, they just drive without one. Accidents invoving a DWI are too often fatal and too often tragic such as the one recently in Ohio. One mother and four children dead in a head on with a drunk in a pickup. Drunk lived. He could get up to 50 years in jail. Odds are he won't.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/loc...,5407337.story

The drunk drivers are out there, if the Troopers are not finding them, they need a push in the right direction. It's a matter of priority and it sounds like the priority just got raised. 4 a week, that sounds like 1 per shift. Good for the supervisors!

Pat

Originally Posted by BigTruckDriver

I am not against ANYTHING that will make are roads safer. I dont understand why you feel that it is ok for the troopers not to be doing their job to begin with, only when they were forced too. The drunk drivers are not magically appearing just to meet their Quota, they have ALWAYS been there.

Guess I don't see your point then... Who cares what the motivation is to get drunk driver's off the road????? Cops are just people doing a job...and as with an employee, the occasionally need a little push in the right direction, and someone to point out where there priorities should be.... Everyone should go to work, do their job to the best of their abilities, and adjust their priorities and work practices to make the company as profitable as possible....That ain't gonna happen in any large scale, why would cops be any different????? Cops are just people doing a job for less money then they should be making and probably more closely watched and criticized by people then any other occupation. Everybody is an "expert" on law enforcement, too bad so few are willing to actually live in the fish bowl and do the job. Reminds me of my time with one "previous employer", we had a sign that said, "We, the unwilling led by the unqualified do the unthinkable for the ungrateful". hmmmm..Maybe being a cop is a lot like that?????

Originally Posted by mopar34

I don't like quota's regardless of who is running them. Cops should be arresting every dwi outlaw they catch....legally. Not just going after someone because of a quota.

Salesmen have quotas, production workers have quotas, military recruiters have quotas, heck isn't every occupation held to some sort of performance standard????? Quotas are a motivating force to do a specific task in an efficient manner a certain number of times.... I'd guess cops are subject to these same motivating forces as folks in any other occupation....

As for quotas for capturing drunk drivers, who cares as long as it works?????

Originally Posted by Dave Severson

Guess I don't see your point then... Who cares what the motivation is to get drunk driver's off the road????? Cops are just people doing a job...and as with an employee, the occasionally need a little push in the right direction, and someone to point out where there priorities should be.... Everyone should go to work, do their job to the best of their abilities, and adjust their priorities and work practices to make the company as profitable as possible....That ain't gonna happen in any large scale, why would cops be any different????? Cops are just people doing a job for less money then they should be making and probably more closely watched and criticized by people then any other occupation. Everybody is an "expert" on law enforcement, too bad so few are willing to actually live in the fish bowl and do the job. Reminds me of my time with one "previous employer", we had a sign that said, "We, the unwilling led by the unqualified do the unthinkable for the ungrateful". hmmmm..Maybe being a cop is a lot like that?????

You must live where they give a dam about doing their job, I deal with cops just about every day, and I think most patrol cops, not all, need a good slap on the side of the head to reset them on what their job is to do.

Don't get me wrong! I wish they did do more, not less around here!

Pat

Cops and troopers should do thier jobs after all its what are state taxes go for right? but as far as drinking and driving its not something i agree with. i've lost friends and classmates. But me for example I may stop in and visit and say hi to friends and have 2 or 3 beers and be on my way but other times when i do sit there all night and hanging out with friends partying it up thats when you call for a ride home or crash at a friends house on a couch or somethin and get your wheels in the morning.

Or even call a cab for that matter. you have money to drink you can call a cab to get a ride home if you live in the city but a true friend is willing to get you home safely. No DUI no accidents no deaths. But bartenders also have the right to quit serving someone thats had to much. Hell bartenders are nice enough to call a cab for you if you ask.

That's a good idea Speedy. Whining about it being legal to drive to a place that serves liquor and not being able to leave legallly sober at lunch tells me somebody has a problem. It's not the 1-2 beers it's the pitcher full or the 4-5 beers.