School cops have traffic quotas!

[Pancakes]

This is not necessarily the case. Especially on a bike. Even at speed the timing has to be right and you've got a lot of room to go around them.

If they have one meter to travel from being hidden by cars to being in your path you have 0.72 of a second to stop. (based on 5km/h walking speed. 3600 seconds/hr divided by the 5000m/hr = 0.72. I've had a bump to the head so if I'm wrong fire away).

SWB, last time we met you were the worlds best intersection designer now you can get to the brakes and stop in less that 3/4 of a second!! Amazing!

[Renegade]

[QUOTE=scumdog;1164683]But its OK folks, the cops will only make money from losers who can't ride/drive and/or don't know road rules.

good call.

Can anyone enlighten me as to the best way police could catch burglars in the act? people think its more important than speed enforcement, which it may well be but people also think its easy for the police to catch these burglars in the act, which i think police do want to do.

so if its so easy, whats your bright idea to catch these crims?? apart from getting them to leave their finger prints and DNA on every surface possible just to give the cops a fighting chance.

Write your idea here.

[Pancakes]

Leave a home type safe in view and ajar....... with a big f*ck-off capacitor wired into it. There'll be a whole body of DNA for the cops!

[Renegade]

Leave a home type safe in view and ajar....... with a big f*ck-off capacitor wired into it. There will be a body of DNA for the cops.

great idea but i was thinking real world not a tarintino film......i do like tarintino tho.

[Pancakes]

They're cheap at Surplustronics etc, you'd have to keep the pets away and switch it off while you are home but I think it's very "real world". I have a farmer mate/inventor who made a "bunny buzzer". Metal disc to the earth (mains) with an insulated sleeve and metal spike in the middle (positive mains). Jab a carrot or other juicy veg' on the spike. They don't even get suss of the power cord. Blows a fuse every time tho. I don't a gree with buzzing bunnies, can't even shoot a possum and I hate what they do to native trees etc, call me a wuss.

[scumdog]

[QUOTE=Renegade;1165872]

But its OK folks, the cops will only make money from losers who can't ride/drive and/or don't know road rules.

good call.

so if its so easy, whats your bright idea to catch these crims?? apart from getting them to leave their finger prints and DNA on every surface possible just to give the cops a fighting chance.

Write your idea here.

Greasy lawyers make it easy for the crims to wriggle out of it ... breach of rights and crap like that.
We all know a burglar but legal aid is way to available to help them weasel out of charges.

Let us bug their phones, put 'tails' on their cars, check their bank accounts, force them to attend WINZ daily and stuff like that and they would evaporate overnight.

[Usarka]

[QUOTE=Renegade;1165872]

But its OK folks, the cops will only make money from losers who can't ride/drive and/or don't know road rules.

good call.

Can anyone enlighten me as to the best way police could catch burglars in the act? people think its more important than speed enforcement, which it may well be but people also think its easy for the police to catch these burglars in the act, which i think police do want to do.

so if its so easy, whats your bright idea to catch these crims?? apart from getting them to leave their finger prints and DNA on every surface possible just to give the cops a fighting chance.

Write your idea here.

Yeah you're right it's too hard. they should target speeders instead because thats much easier.

[swbarnett]

If they have one meter to travel from being hidden by cars to being in your path you have 0.72 of a second to stop. (based on 5km/h walking speed. 3600 seconds/hr divided by the 5000m/hr = 0.72. I've had a bump to the head so if I'm wrong fire away).

SWB, last time we met you were the worlds best intersection designer now you can get to the brakes and stop in less that 3/4 of a second!! Amazing!

That assumes that you're 0.72 seconds away from the point where their line crosses yours. All I meant to say was that a collision was not inevitable. Anyway, who said anything about stopping? I've been in that situation more than once (at 50km/h or there abouts). I've had three things happen (although not at once) - 1. The pedestrian passed in front of me before I reached them. 2. I accelerated and swerved, passing in front of the pedestrian (nearly got thumped cause the guy thought I was aiming for him). 3. I anticipated the habit and started braking before they left the curb, stopping safely with the pedestrian in front of me.

The trick is to read the circumstances ahead of time. If you're passing parked cars with not much room of course you should slow down. If the road has a wide verge/footpath and you've got plenty of warning of stupid pedestrians then you can afford to go faster.

Just occurred to me that I've never been in this situation when I've been over the speed limit. Maybe pedestrians look at a fast vehicle and don't risk the gap?

[swbarnett]

SWB, last time we met you were the worlds best intersection designer

Is it not common sense that if you can't see more than a few meters ahead of you you shouldn't turn in to the path of potentially oncoming traffic?

I don't claim to be able to design intersections better than the current professionals. They could probably do a much better job if they weren't constrained by a budget.

[ChookThief]

Been a while since a thread about the cops, speeding and quotas

http://www.stuff.co.nz/4156513a10.html

My questions:

• Do you think that these guys will target dangerous driving, or take the easy radar out the window approach?
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• Is there also a quota for these police officers to catch burglars?

I don't mind if they hammer people speeding around schools, its not on. Hopefully advertising the fact they're going to do it will slow people down. Remember this article related to Youth Education Officers. It is their job to ensure safety of our kids.

Burglars speed too and get ticketed just the same.

[Toaster]

[QUOTE=scumdog;1165970]

Greasy lawyers make it easy for the crims to wriggle out of it ... breach of rights and crap like that.
We all know a burglar but legal aid is way to available to help them weasel out of charges.

Let us bug their phones, put 'tails' on their cars, check their bank accounts, force them to attend WINZ daily and stuff like that and they would evaporate overnight.

Great policies Scumdog, can we make you prime minister? You are as much a man as the current one!

[mbazza]

So, that's why they hang around at school! Getting their quota up! lol. Cheers.