UPPER MARLBORO — A Prince George’s County councilwoman who was stopped for high-speed driving and veering across lanes has gotten a ticket for reckless driving.
On Feb. 22, Karen Toles got a $90 ticket for an unsafe lane change on the Capital Beltway and was given a warning for speeding. The police officer could not establish Toles’ speed because the cruiser was not equipped with radar, nor was it calibrated to measure her speed.
But on Tuesday, an executive review panel recommended the reckless driving citation. Prince George’s County Police Chief Mark McGaw hand-delivered the citation to Toles, who accepted it at her lawyer’s office.
The citation carries a $510 fine and up to six points on a driver’s license.
The cops could fill their whole ticket book(s) with these types of violations if they chose to.
ReplyDelete2:32, the way the laws are written and with the deference given to police officers by judges, police can fill their whole ticket books with any type of violation they want. We're all at their mercy.
ReplyDeleteThis occurred in PG County. Ms Toles could have paid the fine on the spot using cash stuffed in her bra.
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ReplyDeleteI know you're right but I meant the way people drive up there....and anywhere else come to think of it.
I wish I knew a cop car that DIDN'T have a radar unit. Are you kidding me? I also wish that i could have my tickets hand delivered to my lawyers office. Is the Chief's duties so slack he has the time to hand deliver tickets to important people? How much is HE paid? It further shows the gulf between "we,the people" and the public masters who RULE us. Like the speed camera in Fruitland that caught more COPS speeding than citizens. We get tickets. THEY get "reprimands". We get higher insurance costs, THEY get, well uh, what exactly DO they get for violating the law? I mean other than a chance to laugh among themselves?
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