MPD Speeding Tickets Soar in April

Despite an increase in officers looking for speeders, the City of Memphis is down more than 40,000 tickets from this time last year, but they're quickly turning that around.

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missy22 - 5/15/2012 6:27 PM

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So it is all about the money....traffic seems to move along pretty good to me. You have the occasional idiot. Is this why we can't cut "public safety"? I don't feel the least bit safer.

JeffersonTao - 5/15/2012 1:11 PM

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I say it is about time. The speed limit on Memphis Interstates is ignored by most. Along with traffic stops comes arrests for wanted felons and thugs of all sorts. If you don't like it, then campaign to enact speed trap laws. Otherwise, slow your a$$ down.

pterodactyl - 5/15/2012 10:35 AM

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Sheriff of Nottingham needs his Ferrari fixed? What an animals...

gma22 - 5/15/2012 8:15 AM

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Having lived in several big cities including San Diego, Norfolk, etc I do know that Memphis really speeds wayyyy over the limit, but frankly this is not about safety and not about slowing folks down. It is about telling patrolman to cease worrying about crime and drag in some revenue by ticketing people. I live in the southeast and they have saturated not only I-240, but 385, Hickory Hill, Winchester and other high traffic areas. I have no problem with tickets, but give them because you want our city to be safer not to generate revenue.

StrayLite - 5/14/2012 9:08 PM

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"City Court Clerk Thomas Long says the decrease was unusual and unexpected. He says with police saturating city highways and streets over the next few months there's a chance the city will come close to breaking even." The quote above shows how many of the so-called "public servants" actually view the public... as cash cows ripe for milking. Tickets are ostensibly issued for public safety but this article shows the real truth -- it's about generating revenue for various levels of governments. Frayserrboi has it right, it's thug mentality.

Frayserboi - 5/14/2012 8:53 PM

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Typical thug mentality, only difference is the blue uniform & the badge.....

Johnny - 5/14/2012 8:27 PM

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The city has taken officers from patrolling your neighborhoods and put them I-240 to write tickets. They city has sent out memos that officers should not write tickets under 5 miles an hour because there is no revenue in it. This is not about the interstate being made safer its about making more money. Not one's home is being broken into on the interstate, no rapes, murders or robberies. Just tickets. I encourage citizens to call their precincts and find out how many officers are asigned to the immediate area they live in.

SteveTapp - 5/14/2012 7:16 PM

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Institutional memory: Memphis cops were doing a job action to protest the budget. AKA "shooting self in foot." Maybe they wised up.