# Motoring fines in the USA **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 14, 2008, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/motoring-fines-in-the-usa/463602 "2008-09-14T21:25:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/motoring-fines-in-the-usa/463602/61 "2008-09-16T00:43:35Z")
> [@Raguleader](#): > > Speaking of college police departments, I learned that the University Police Department at Texas A&M University can claim jurisdiction throughout any county in Texas where a Texas A&M facility happens to be located (which is an awful lot of Texas, actually, since A&M does lots of agricultural and environmental research). They tend not to play jurisdiction games and prefer to cooperate, of course. > > I’ve seen them around College Station on occasion responding to car accidents and such that happen near the campus. Makes me wonder about situations like Waco/Branch Davidians. Like we don’t already have an army of law enforcement here, let’s bring in the FBI, ATF, I dunno—US Marshals—and have a pissing contest over whose jurisdiction it is. But wait! A&M owns acreage in that area…:D:smack::dubious:🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/motoring-fines-in-the-usa/463602/62 "2008-09-16T01:20:59Z")
> [@Raguleader](#): > > Speaking of college police departments, I learned that the University Police Department at Texas A&M University can claim jurisdiction throughout any county in Texas where a Texas A&M facility happens to be located (which is an awful lot of Texas, actually, since A&M does lots of agricultural and environmental research). They tend not to play jurisdiction games and prefer to cooperate, of course. > > I’ve seen them around College Station on occasion responding to car accidents and such that happen near the campus. My younger brother was a Louisiana State University (LSU) police officer until recently. LSU is a small city on its own and he was head of the canine unit and lived with his drug detention and attack dogs. Police powers are granted by the state everywhere that I know of and he had arrest powers anywhere in Louisiana. It might piss other departments off if he made an arrest 300 miles from home but he still held jurisdiction within all of Louisiana if he ever needed it. The arrest would still be valid. ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/motoring-fines-in-the-usa/463602/63 "2008-09-16T01:22:21Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > My younger brother was a Louisiana State University (LSU) police officer until recently. LSU is a small city on its own and he was head of the canine unit and lived with his drug detention and attack dogs. Police powers are granted by the state everywhere that I know of and he had arrest powers anywhere in Louisiana. It might piss other departments off if he made an arrest 300 miles from home but he still held jurisdiction within all of Louisiana if he ever needed it. The arrest would still be valid. Could be a fun plot for an action movie. An ass-kicking campus cop who doesn’t take shit from anyone cleans up a crime-ridden backwater town patrolled by a corrupt police department while he’s on vacation. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/motoring-fines-in-the-usa/463602/64 "2008-09-16T01:33:56Z")
> [@Raguleader](#): > > Could be a fun plot for an action movie. An ass-kicking campus cop who doesn’t take shit from anyone cleans up a crime-ridden backwater town patrolled by a corrupt police department while he’s on vacation. 😃 It _would_ be kinda fun, wouldn’t it? Knowing that anywhere you went in the whole state, you could arrest people? Including, possibly, other cops?😃 ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/motoring-fines-in-the-usa/463602/65 "2008-09-16T06:17:39Z")
> [@Raguleader](#): > > Could be a fun plot for an action movie. An ass-kicking campus cop who doesn’t take shit from anyone cleans up a crime-ridden backwater town patrolled by a corrupt police department while he’s on vacation. 😃 All on his own! Bruce Willis, are you reading this? ---
**Author:** ![Balthisar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/balthisar/32/2825_2.png) [@Balthisar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balthisar)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/motoring-fines-in-the-usa/463602/66 "2008-09-16T12:15:13Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Personally, I think uninsured motorists are one step above puppy kickers. Despite the slightly higher cost, that’s why I love my no-fault coverage. I don’t have to worry a whit about what the other guy has or hasn’t. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/motoring-fines-in-the-usa/463602.md?page=3)