dTHREE, TULSA (4/6/2009 4:25:32 AM)

24,000 hrs freed is equivalent to hiring 11.5 officers if my math holds. A possible twenty-five percent increase in revenue collected from citations and the lucky receivers’ getting to get on with their objectives in less than half the time. It begs to ask the question; What took so long?

joker5, (4/6/2009 7:27:20 AM)

Wow, good thing our roads are in perfect shape and everything is tip-top around town...and now we have all this cash to spend. You know, if those officers spent their 24,000 hours hunting down child molesters and killers, I'd feel a lot better about the 8 minutes they are saving. And nope, I've never had a ticket in my life. I'm just saying, I'd feel much safer knowing a killer was off the street than I would knowing a guy got pulled over doing 5 over the speed limit on the BA...

Graychin, Eucha (4/6/2009 8:30:44 AM)

Now - about the medallions that the police put on the license plates of their own civilian cars...

Lunatk, (4/6/2009 8:40:49 AM)

Medallions on the cars simply mean they won't get stopped. Even if they do get stopped they don't give tickets to many many people based on who they are. Kids or relatives, girlfriends. friends, lawyers, politicians, cute girls, and on the list goes. Giving tickets is something the cop does based solely on whether he got lucky the night before. If his mood is sour when he gets up, folks are going to pay for it. Cops are jerks, period. Sure they like kids and try to take care of them, but as a rule, they are all jerks.

Eagle 4, Tulsa (4/6/2009 9:11:00 AM)

To look at it another way, those 500 or so officers could now write 168,000 citations in the same amount of time! Any guess as to which way they'll decide to go?

my view, Sand Springs (4/6/2009 9:48:31 AM)

We have those that think the police should be out catching real criminals instead of traffic violators. You won't get a ticket if you obey the law. Those that violate the traffic laws are criminals also.

Daniel Day Simpson, Edmond (4/6/2009 10:07:55 AM)

Get ready folks, 1984 is getting close. OK, so its a bit late but its catching up fast. I saw a full operational test of a fully automatic tag capture device. A camera mounted on the light bar of a police cruiser continually analyzes vehicle tags and alerts the officer of hits. It reports expired tags, wants, warrants, and administrative holds. It is so sophisticated that the ticket is already electronically created before the officer can put on his hat and get out of the car. All the officer has to do is grab his mobile terminal which has the ticket information and add the driver's own information. Of course as he scans that in, it is automatically checked against NCIC. The same task for most OHP and county units is 5 to 10 minutes. A Boston man lost his policeman son because the radio was jammed with this kind of traffic as he was shot and killed and was not able to get through to a dispatcher to tell her he was shot. He died bleeding to death as officers ran several licenses on a traffic stop. With the help of the officer's dad, they installed a highly successful system based on real cheap 486 laptops and old cellphone modems. AT&T gave them very cheap airtime and a computer programmer donated his services to write a very efficient app. In the end, Boston got a very cheaply ran MDT based on cellphone bandwidth. They no longer needed to clog radio channels with housekeeping duties.

SoCal Fan, Broken Arrow (4/6/2009 10:08:53 AM)

my view, I agree.
Ever since I moved here from California, I've noticed that Tulsa has the worst drivers. Tulsa drivers never use their turn signal when they're suppose to, never drive the speed limit(Too fast or too slow), and don't yield to merging traffic on the highway. Bad drivers are the only ones who don't like traffic cops.

Daniel Day Simpson, Edmond (4/6/2009 10:10:36 AM)

My View, just tell those people that we will always kill more people in vehicle crashes than in murders. Its something like a 100 to 1 ration. For every 1 person murdered, 100 people die on the streets.
So lets keep the traffic patrol going for at least a while.

Thunder196, (4/6/2009 10:49:08 AM)

I agreed with most of what was said, but the one thing you could have left of was the last sentence.

"So let's be careful out there. After all, if you're not violating the law, you shouldn't have anything to worry about."

I have heard police officers say, they can always find a reason to stop someone if they want. That is why they have little, outdated, unknown laws on the books, that the public usually know nothing about.

Mar, Tulsa (4/6/2009 11:35:14 AM)

SoCal Fan. You must have never been to Wichita, KS, they have the worst drivers. It is dangerous driving there.

Also, I notice you mention Tulsa drivers, surely you also meant Broken Arrow and other surrounding area drivers. I can always pick out drivers who live in small towns. They are usually the ones that don't use their signals, they also come to a complete stop at a corner before turning and impede traffic getting on and off the expressway. I guess they are use to driving on empty streets with a couple of stop lights.

Daniel Day Simpson, Edmond (4/6/2009 5:47:42 PM)

Nag there are departments that spend their whole life harassing people with certain cars. Nichols Hills is one of those departments. They followed me home each night for nearly years. I finally stopped eating at The Coach House and Charlie Newton's. I also stopped buying my meats at Crescent market. My personal strike cost them hundreds in tax dollars. Usually a Hertz security guard would call The Village or NH police to let them know a batch of workers were headed down Penn at 3 A.M. Nichols Hills picked up these commuters at Brittan Road and followed us all the way to 63rd. Up to 3 units would get in on the raid. They scrutinized everyone's tag and driving. I was so glad to finally leave Hertz even though I had conversed with a senior executive vice president at Park Ridge, NJ about the security guards at the OKC plant. There is nothing worse than a security guard who think they are there to police the employees. In their job description it reads they are to protect the assets of Hertz and keep employees and their vehicles safe from crimes. Nowhere does it say they are to call law enforcement if they see an expired tag in the parking lot.

Joe5, Bixby (4/7/2009 2:06:51 AM)

One more reason NOT to shop in Tulsa.