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DPS ticketing slows on Valley freeways

Michael Chow/The Arizona Republic

Robert Bond, an Arizona Department of PUblic Safety officer, does paperwork after issuing a ticket Tuesday on Interstate 17.

Troopers blame increasing demands, cuts in staff

Dennis Wagner
The Arizona Republic
Jun. 24, 2004 12:00 AM


If it seems like motorists are getting away with more traffic violations on Valley freeways in recent months, it's not just your imagination.

Arizona Department of Public Safety officers have dramatically cut back the number of tickets they are writing. It is unclear whether the citation slowdown is a form of on-the-job "blue flu" by officers disgruntled about low pay or the result of an understaffed Highway Patrol force that is near the breaking point.

Regardless, Maricopa County Justice Court records show that traffic offenses submitted in May by the DPS plummeted 44 percent countywide from May 2003, with officers writing 5,530 fewer violations than they did in May 2003. Over a three-month period, the number of traffic charges dropped by a quarter; DPS records show that total traffic stops and drunken-driving arrests also fell.


Full story: Come to Arizona

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For those of you in Chicago, or passing through, the Edens Expressway - 94 has only one State Trooper for both directions from the Edens Spur to the Junction at the Kennedy.

Pretty much a free speed zone, 55 is the posted limits, 80+ is the normal speed limit with faster speeds in the left lane. :1orglaugh

Gov. Skippy and his budget crisis has made it next to impossible to get more State cruisers on the highways, and the only time you see more than one State cop car is when someone wraps their car around a tree. So much for being proactive, more like reactive law enforcement. :(

Well we need to focus our police forces on those damn pot smokers before we can start worrying about some petty speeders.

lmao :rasta

Yeah, forget about people who drink.... they're ok.... right? Cause we all know... drinking and driving is cool :thumbsup












Idiot... WTF does smoking pot have to do with speeding? :321GFY

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time for photo radar heh

That's a vicious circle, with revenue down and staff numbers down. :glugglug

nice shit for all the racers out there

i drive everywhere fast in arizona.. even on way to tucson fly by cops going 95 and they don't even do nothing.. probably sleeping in the police car on the side of the road

Here's :2 cents: towards a new Dictionary, go look up sarcasm

I speed wherever!!!:D