Traffic Tickets
Cruising down the freeway with the top down, suddenly you look at the review mirror only to see blue and red lights flashing behind you- that hidden police officer clocked you doing 75 in a 65. It does not take more than a weekend in College Station to know that many students in the area are being pulled over and ticketed by police officers. According to Alex Carroll, "Over 100,000 tickets are written in this country everyday. Most of them are undeserved" (Carroll 9). Obviously driving laws are a necessity on the roads today. Without them people would drive careless and reckless. The cost and the consequences of receiving a ticket can become very costly and affect ones driving record. Punishment for traffic violations needs to be reduced, particularly for first time violators. The consequences should, however, increase after multiple offenses, and not be so excessive for somebody that made one error in judgment while behind the wheel. In recent years fines for traffic citations have become very expensive. Most traffic tickets are well over one hundred dollars, which is a large sum of money to most people. Tickets
enforcement and the court system" (Carroll 27). Many tickets that were given only to raise money could be fought and won, but due to the laws supremacy, most people pay the ticket and accept the charges. Tickets are also placed on an individuals driving record and count towards points on ones driving record. After a certain number of tickets of tickets they lose all of their points and could potentially lose their license. If ones license is revoked, it is placed on that person's permanent record, which could affect their future greatly. the streets safe. A better alternative to fining drivers is to make driver's education more difficult. Today, practically anybody can get a license and hardly know anything about driving. Every person who wishes to drive should take a mandatory driver's safety course several times throughout their life, rather than only once when they turn 16. Driver's safety courses should also be mandated for all persons who violate laws. It also appears as if police officers are merely on the road to ticket drivers, not to "protect and serve". It seems that counties encourage the ticketing of citizens to make m
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