CHP officers wrote 200,000 more citations in 2009 than in 2007, an 8% jump. Speeding and failure to stop were down, technical violations such as expired registration and faulty tires jumped much higher. Since it would not be possible to see the condition of a tire while the car is in motion, this is probably the result of officers handing out multiple violations during their traffic stops. link
Equation that my dad used to beat a ticket by causing reasonable doubt...
of citations per day x 20 days of duty per month x 5 months (since citation was writtent) = # of citations the officer has written since he wrote mine. I've only received 1 ticket since then (or within the last 5 years for that matter), so I remember the details a lot more clearer. I wasn't the car he saw speeding. My 8 month pregnant was following behind me the whole time. Not much else to it fellas. Reason I waited til the day of is because I have a 7 week old baby that's been taking my time along with a full-time job.
In Houston if you go to court the cops hardly ever show up they just let those people go and the people that pay without going to court are the only ones that pay
The only way I'd even fathom going to a second round would be if I were 200% positive I was not guilty of the violation in question (which if you were going 1mph over and got a ticket for speeding, you're technically guilty!), and I had a lawyer and documented evidence from the police dash cam and/or radar that it wasn't me.
Seriously, just wheel and deal with the D.A., get it over and done with, and be on your way. Were you wrongfully ticketed? Perhaps! But how do you plan to prove it? The ball is really in the Officer's court here and you're going to have an uphill battle to prove your innocence as you need irrefutable evidence to show that. Certainly trying to throw out some general statistics of how many tickets the CHP issue daily as a measure of "revenue generation" isn't going to win many allies with them. After all, they don't get paid if you get out of it!
First, the CHP says that funds generated from speeding tickets do not benefit either the CHP or the state of California and that all fines are levied by the local courts.
the CHP does not have "part time" officers.
All sworn officers are full-time. Additionally, the CHP says it prohibits quotas in writing tickets.
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