E-Citation in Okla...never see the cops!

[FamousAJ]

OKLAHOMA CITY —An Oklahoma lawmaker wants to reduce the amount of danger a law enforcement officer faces when pulling over a driver

Sen. Al McAffrey is a former police officer. McAffrey wrote Senate Bill 1872, which would allow law enforcement officers to issue electronic citations for traffic, misdemeanor and municipal ordinance violations.

The bill would keep officers from having to approach a vehicle they see in violation.

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"Allowing officers to issue electronic citations will help better protect them. If they don't have to approach vehicles during traffic stops to give people tickets but can simply email traffic violation citations directly to the district court clerk, then they're less likely to get into a dangerous altercation," McAffrey said.

The bill would also add a $5 fee to the amount already paid by defendants convicted of speeding, certain misdemeanor traffic violations or a driving under the influence misdemeanor.

Part of that fee would be sent to a electronic citation fund created in each county. Another part of the fee would be given back to the law enforcement agency responsible for the ticket to help with expenses related to electronic citations.

“Routine traffic stops are one of the most dangerous times for officers to become injured because they don’t know what kind of situation or individual they’re approaching. They’re walking up blind,” McAffrey said in a news release. “We need to provide better protection for them by not putting them in harm’s way unnecessarily. By allowing them to submit electronic citations, they’d no longer have to leave the safety of their car.”

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[Spata]

Why not just fire all the Leo's and install cameras everywhere. Would be cheaper and more efficient.

 

[excat]

This is stupid...way too much room for error. How can they even prove who was driving the vehicle?

Also, isn't routine traffic stops one of the number one ways they catch people with warrants, or drug trafficing?

 

[caojyn]

My question would be "If I'm driving across the metro at night and my taillight is out, am I gonna end up with 10 tickets for the same infraction?"

Currently, I'd just have to show the 1st ticket to the subsequent officers and baring he/she being in a bad mood or just an @$$, I'd just get sent on my way.

This could easily become a money maker.

 

[airpowmech]

Sounds like they want to raise revenue by being able to issue more tickets. Think of all the extra tickets they could write if they don't have to waste time pulling you over.

 

[excat]

They would be increasing court time though. The amount of people that would dispute these tickets and they would have to be dropped would probably be huge. You can't issue a ticket to someone if you don't know who they are. Unless they change the driving point system to vehicle based, where a certain vehicle can only obtain XX number of tickets, regardless of the driver. The person driving the vehicle is responsible if they violate the law, not the person who is registered to the vehicle.

 

[Fredkrueger100]

this is one of the dumbest bills I've ever heard of

 

[Lurkerinthewoods]

DUI drivers will rejoice in the streets.

 

[RETOKSQUID]

Tie it into the pike pass system. Sensor a is passed at a certian time, sensor b is passed a given time later. If driving faster than the speed limit a citation is issued to the account. Add cameras to it and you could show who was driving at the time. Do away with the piont system when some one is tagged in this way, and the account owners could take it up with the driver who caused the violation. Still have officers out and about to deal with the drunks, equipment defects, reckless drivers, and other issues.

 

[LightningCrash]

Well I don't have anything nice to say about this idea. Nothing at all.

Peace.