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Speeding is not a crime.
Hands up all those who think fifty miles an hour at three in the afternoon past the local infants school is acceptable behaviour?
Speeding IS a crime, it's on the statute books as such. I do understand the point you are trying to make, that the whole concept of "speeding" or (especially) parking and the associated gravy train of fines being abused by local authorities or police forces.
But please do not infer that you can make it up as you go along.
The fact that the police officer said that he "couldn't let it just pass" as inferred in one post above shows he was just doing his duty.
It would have been handy if he was passing my pal's garage forecourt the other night though instead of the two as*h*les driving the police vehicle that did drive past and kept on going (on the CCTV). Maybe he would have stopped and arrested the scumbags breaking in in full view.
I think the real issue is the unfairness, the random application of the law as viewed by the public. Generally in the past the law abiding public had no contact with the police except perhaps as the victims of a burglary. Then everyone bought a motor car, then some bright spark created the Road Traffic Acts. The relationship between the public and the police has been steadily downhill from there.