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http://www.freep.com/article/201403...ate-Police-to-join-multi-state-I-75-crackdown

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Michigan State Police are teaming up with law enforcement from five other states along the I-75 corridor to try to reduce traffic fatalities.

The other participating states are Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Ohio and Kentucky.

The “I-75 Challenge” campaign is being conducted in support of a nationwide initiative by the International Association of Chiefs of Police to reduce U.S. traffic fatalities by 15% this year.

The challenge will consist of four high-visibility enforcement weekends. The March 28 and Dec. 26 weekends will target impaired driving; June 27 will be motorcycle safety, and the weekend of Sept. 26 will focus on occupant protection, distracted driving and speeding.

During the enforcement periods, increased numbers of law enforcement officials will be positioned along the 1,786-mile I-75 corridor.
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I drive to lansing from bay city daily for my job. Buddy and I have noticed the state police presence disappeared completely for a week, than the next week they were everywhere but hitting up mostly just big rigs. But if you are on 75 or 69 and speeding, your gonna get popped, they are everywhere.
 
They laid off a bunch of troopers over the past 4 years and the presence has been noticeably less than in previous years. They also made some rule that the patrol cars couldn't have more than so many miles and running hours per shift. Don't know how true that is, but I heard it through the grapevine a few years ago.
The way I see it is, it's job security for the troopers, and it's income for the state. You'd be really pissed if a cop wasn't doing his or her job when YOU needed them to, so I say just let them do their jobs and if you're in so much of a hurry that you go need to more than a few miles over the speed limit then you probably deserve a ticket.
And I just made myself sound like an old fogey lol :woowoo:
 
BigWheelinBubba said:
They laid off a bunch of troopers over the past 4 years and the presence has been noticeably less than in previous years. They also made some rule that the patrol cars couldn't have more than so many miles and running hours per shift. Don't know how true that is, but I heard it through the grapevine a few years ago.
The way I see it is, it's job security for the troopers, and it's income for the state. You'd be really pissed if a cop wasn't doing his or her job when YOU needed them to, so I say just let them do their jobs and if you're in so much of a hurry that you go need to more than a few miles over the speed limit then you probably deserve a ticket.
And I just made myself sound like an old fogey lol :woowoo:
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Take some Geritol OLD MAN!! LOL
 
I dont care that they are out there, I am driving when everyone else is also trying to get to work. They are keeping the assholes on the road in line. But I also dont speed ever unless I am lined up with someone in my other car. But when I am in my buddies saturn what the fuck do we need to speed for, were getting like 40MPG.
 
sloFOUR said:
I drive to lansing from bay city daily for my job. Buddy and I have noticed the state police presence disappeared completely for a week, than the next week they were everywhere but hitting up mostly just big rigs. But if you are on 75 or 69 and speeding, your gonna get popped, they are everywhere.
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big rigs are the largest fines, and they rarely fight them
 
They've been hitting 696 over the last month pulling over anything with tint on the front windows. Every car but 1 I've seen pulled over has had tint on it.

A few weeks back on my evening commute I had MSP cruising in front of me at 75mph, he saw a 'Burban in the right lane with tint. He stomped on the brakes, dove over 3 lanes and lit the Burban up.
 
BigWheelinBubba said:
They laid off a bunch of troopers over the past 4 years and the presence has been noticeably less than in previous years. They also made some rule that the patrol cars couldn't have more than so many miles and running hours per shift. Don't know how true that is, but I heard it through the grapevine a few years ago.
The way I see it is, it's job security for the troopers, and it's income for the state. You'd be really pissed if a cop wasn't doing his or her job when YOU needed them to, so I say just let them do their jobs and if you're in so much of a hurry that you go need to more than a few miles over the speed limit then you probably deserve a ticket.
And I just made myself sound like an old fogey lol :woowoo:
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I agree with you 100%
 
I came down I-75 saturday morning and just north of Saginaw there were 3 sitting in the median. One with the radar gun and the other two to go get them. Gotta love team work, it was one state SUV and two Sheriff chargers. I left the cruise at 74 the whole way and didn't bat eye at them. The way home on Sunday night I didn't see a single one the whole way, it was weird.
 
dave89iroc said:
big rigs are the largest fines, and they rarely fight them
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Ummmmmm. I believe they fight them the most. We have guys get popped for 8k in fines, go to court and "walk" out with $2500 in fines.
Where did you hear that they don't fight them?

So a rig gets hit with $10k in fines....... He just pays it? That's about 1/5th of his yearly income.... If he's a owner/operator. Less if he's in someone's truck
 
Michigan State Police are teaming up with law enforcement from five other states along the I-75 corridor to try to reduce traffic fatalities.
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Let me guess - they'll be trying to achieve this by hiding in trees with radar guns.
 
mdhmi said:
Let me guess - they'll be trying to achieve this by hiding in trees with radar guns.
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Great, now you told everyone their super secret plan. Dont forget they have those cars that dont look like cruisers at all now too.
 
In case a lot of you haven't noticed, they don't need to sit on the side of the road with radar guns as much as they used to. The MDOT traffic cams have radar on them and the MSP monitors them so if you're acting dumb they probably know about it.
 
sloFOUR said:
Great, now you told everyone their super secret plan. Dont forget they have those cars that dont look like cruisers at all now too.
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I remember back in the day when Auburn Hills used Intrepids. One of them was purple, I'll bet that car made the city tons of money.
 
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