# Traffic Enforcement **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 31, 2023, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/traffic-enforcement/984832 "2023-05-31T17:29:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2023, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/traffic-enforcement/984832/41 "2023-08-01T20:01:05Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > None of which excuses blasting up on an obviously weird traffic situation without at least considering that the reason it’s weird has something to do with either a crash or passing emergency vehicles. Plus, there seems to be a class of drivers who think that if you wave or honk while doing something stupid, it makes it okay to do something stupid. I’ve seen that a lot more lately. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2023, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/traffic-enforcement/984832/42 "2023-08-01T20:15:16Z")
I’m bulling my way into going first, _and_ I’m polite doing it. Go me! I am the BEST!!! Yup. Increasingly common. FTR: I’m sure I’m guilty of this now and again. Especially the conceit that if you give me 3 seconds right _now_, very shortly thereafter I’ll be a mile in front of you going away and you’ll make up that 3 seconds easily without my ongoing interference with your progress. ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2023, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/traffic-enforcement/984832/43 "2023-08-01T21:04:37Z")
Local communities are not immune from the tight labor markets. Municipalities have seen drastic reduction in workforce, whether its the DMV, courts, or the police force. As such there are about 5% fewer sworn officers today in the US than there were at the beginning of 2020. Fewer patrolmen, fewer detectives, etc. With less patrol and traffic enforcement, drivers will be more aggressive. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2023, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/traffic-enforcement/984832/44 "2023-08-04T21:33:37Z")
No… this guy was coming perpendicular to the ambulance’s direction of travel. ---
**Author:** ![Digger11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/838e76/32.png) [@Digger11](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digger11)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2023, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/traffic-enforcement/984832/45 "2023-08-05T00:26:21Z")
> [@Kent\_Clark](#): > > In St. Louis, yes to the bad driving part, but we’re still waiting for the enforcement part. Same in Colorado. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2023, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/traffic-enforcement/984832/46 "2023-08-05T00:28:29Z")
Then you are correct, he was a dick. ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2023, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/traffic-enforcement/984832/47 "2023-08-05T18:50:39Z")
A couple nights ago, I pulled out into traffic behind a marked Chicago Police squad car. As we drove, a cluster of motorcycles approached in the oncoming. They were goofing off, swerving, wheelies, etc, but fairly low speed and not really a danger to others but pretty flagrant. The brake lights on the cop car briefly flashed to acknowledge visual on the scofflaws and wheelies quickly touched back down. It would have been an easy pop for the cops but everyone drove on. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/traffic-enforcement/984832.md?page=2)