How does capturing a speeding violation change driver behavior to improve public safety?
The most effective way for a law enforcement agency to change your driving behavior to improve public safety is to CONSISTENTLY enforce the Speed Limit. To do so requires the agency to employ new technologies and to mail a South Carolina Uniform Traffic Ticket to violator. The common practice is for a law enforcement officer who detected and recorded your speed violation to come out of enforcement mode to perform the dangerous clerical function of personally serving you a traffic ticket on the side of busy Interstate highway. The traffic enforcement officer cannot enforce the speed limit while serving you a speeding ticket. Thus, on many traffic enforcement shifts, the majority of the officer’s time is not spent on detecting and recording speeders, but on a dangerous clerical function of delivering a ticket to a speeder at roadside. By performing roadside personal service, the majority of speeders, no matter how many officers a law enforcement agency may deploy, will never be caught. T
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