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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sanjuro893" data-source="post: 4116774" data-attributes="member: 4491">All kidding aside, I understand the point of speed kills and the public safety aspect of law enforcement and I DO appreciate those efforts. And anybody that cant spot a police car by just the make and maodel, the tires and the spotlight on the side sitting off the highway where there's NO businesses around half a mile up the interstate need some new glasses. That being said, my first time to Galveston was a couple years ago to visit my brother in law. My wife's driving and once we hit Houston, it was bumper to bumper and we're boogeying down the interstate at around 80-85. And we're on this guys' bumper and the guy behind us is on OUR bumper and so on throughout the ENTIRE drive. Everybody's doing it! I immediately get super nervous and white-knuckling it thinking there's gonna be a 50 car pile-up any second and I look out the passenger window and there's a Houston PD officer in a marked car right alongside us! I look at him thinking he's gonna have a conniption at everyone doing this right in front of him, he eventually looks over at me, we stare at each other for a second or two, he shrugs, I shrug. We go on and I kinda got used to that kind a driving during our visit. On the way back we get to Dallas where people drive pretty much the way they do here: inattentive, some fast, some slow, in and out of lanes, road raging and so on and traffic was 35 mph at best. Last year I was talking to another cop who used to work Houston about that experience and he said that they're more concerned with maintaining the flow of traffic, people maintaining their lane than they are about speed cuz, yeah, you would need an ARMY of patrolmen to handle all that. He said that "reckless" speed is still not tolerated but it's actually safer for the public AND the officer getting out of his vehicle on a stop to just go with the flow of traffic, speeding or not. To me, that makes more sense. You have so many people trying to get where they're going "on time" and then you have Granny Anderson doing 50-55 in a 65 in the center lane so people end up slamming on their brakes, they do erratic last minute lane changes cuz they're too busy on their phone or whatever and I think THAT contributes to just as many traffic issues, accidents and fatalities as speed does.</blockquote>

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