# Why are Suburban Cops So Hungry **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 8, 2018, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-suburban-cops-so-hungry/813808 "2018-05-08T09:35:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2018, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-suburban-cops-so-hungry/813808/101 "2018-05-28T18:53:38Z")
[quote=“Jennshark, post:33, topic:813808”] > [@Jennshark](#): > > The times I’ve been pulled over here (NJ) are, so far as I can tell, due to a cop randomly running plates. I’ve never had a moving violation or a fix-it ticket. I’ve had registration dings (my fault) and once, failure to have my insurance card (the officer wouldn’t accept my electronic GEICO card – he should have, it’s been legal here since 2015). > > Registration here isn’t visible, as it’s a card and not tags on plates. Randomly running my plates is the only explanation I have for being stopped as frequently as I am because they can’t know if the car is registered or not until they run it. > > I’ve also wondered if driving my BMWs and having vanity plates have anything to do with getting pulled over so frequently.\* maybe a vanity plate is easier to remember than regular plates and might be an easy target? > > Our township cops make a bundle pulling over college students on my street (we’re near a campus). It’s rare that I don’t see a car pulled over at least once a day. I wholeheartedly approve of this, as there are a lot of kids roaring down the road at 65mph in a 45mph zone, running lights, and in general being buttholes. > > \*I don’t have jerky plates (IMHO). I have the chassis number (E39 for the '02, E46 for the '04, and F25 for the X3). Bimmer enthusiasts can instantly identify the age and model of the car. It’s gibberish to normal people. It _certainly_ beats your last vanity plate: **F\*KNJCOPS** 😃 😃 😃 Kids in college towns speeding? Fuck 'em. Pull them over EVERY time. As an EMT I spent enough time digging what was left of 19 year olds out of car wrecks. And profiling? Well. I detest the racial profiling that now seems quite the accepted norm. But give cops their due- they can smell a bullshitter a mile off. If they profiled and come up empty, they should be gracious and back off. They frequently do NOT come up empty. ---
**Author:** ![Jennshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Jennshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennshark)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2018, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-suburban-cops-so-hungry/813808/102 "2018-05-28T19:44:42Z")
We live in an odd area, the Trenton city limit is a 1/2 mile to the south and my township marks the beginning of middle-class neighborhoods that transition into some dang rich towns a few miles to the north. (FYI for the unaware: parts of Trenton are violent and impoverished; it’s a troubled area surrounded by much wealthier towns/burbs). Trenton cops tend to be busy with emergencies and crimes, town cops with lesser crimes and auto ticketing. I drive like the proverbial old church lady on surface streets, especially in the cutesy little towns. Many of them have speed/rolling stops/etc traps and they nab a lot of drivers via sudden speed limit changes. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-suburban-cops-so-hungry/813808/103 "2018-05-29T00:07:26Z")
Yep yep. I used to live in Monroe, NY. One way home was to get onto Rt. 17 in NJ and then stay on Old Rt. 17 as it crossed into NY State. That took me through Sloatsburgh, NY and Suffern, NY. Two towns with wicked speed reductions. God HELP you if you were still slowing down when you passed that sign. ( I believe it went 55- 45- 30 ). After two stern warnings I decided screw it, I’m going 20. LET them pull me over for under-speed driving. I’d crawl past the townie cops, barely holding 20-22 mph. Did it for years. They looked mighty displeased at the looooooong line of honking cars behind me. See, Rt. 17 is one lane in each direction at that point. Fuck 'em. They don’t want people to speed? I won’t speed. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-suburban-cops-so-hungry/813808.md?page=5)