I was recently told by a NYS DMV licensed Inspection Station owner that according to NY DMV if the vehicle has an automatic transmission the parking brake does not have to be operable. Weird, eh?
JDemaris, I cannot imagine why the driver would not be held liable in the first case you mentioned. In the second case that sounds like a mechanical malfunction, true. Either way, in most cases where a fatality occurs the County DA or ADA is contacted, the case is run by him and it's pretty much his call on what tickets are issued. In the fatals I worked in the last few years on the job our Accident Reconstruction Team always came out and they had the training to tell you exactly what happened with moving vehicles. I;m not sure they'd be up on mechanical mafunctions to a tranny though, maybe.
The seat belt arrests can seem like a petty thing, but I can tell you first hand that they do save lives, lower insurance rates and keep you safer. The 1 in a million accident where someone gets hurt because of the seat belt is far out weighed by the vast majority of cases where someone is saved. Both my father and sister would be alive had they been wearing belts, I once held the stomach of an 8 months pregnant woman together, keeping her baby and intestines from spilling out onto the highway because she didn't wear a belt. Things like that stay with you.
Gun guru- you want the job? First take a competitive exam. When I took it 25 years ago 80K other people took it, which means I had to be in the top 1/2 of 1% to even get called for the physical since I was a white male back in the day of affirmative action. Then you take the physical, more tests, the psychological, your family and your entire past is investigated. Then there's interviews and the whole investigation is reviewed 2 or 3 times. Then, if you get the call, you attend 6 months training at the Albany Academy where among other things your car is searched, your belongings searched, you have to take graduate level legal classes and a whole bunch of other stuff, prove you can drive, shoot, run, fight, think, etc. Gutting it up to leave my family every Sunday night and go back for another week was the worst part. At the time I went through I would have rated it as tough as Parris Island, which I also had the honor of attending. Then, assuming you graduate, you get shipped off "somewhere" in NYS, not necessarily anywhere you wanted to be or even heard of. There's another 6 months of probation where something as simple as a fight with your girlfriend, a night out with the boys or that habit your wife or boyfriend has can cost you your job. If you make it through probation it takes about 5 years to really get the hang of doing the job, for the "superman" to wear off and for you to figure out your weaknesses and strengths. At about 7 years...you burn out. At about 10 years you realize you have a lot invested and that's when the "Golden Handcuffs" snap on- that retirement (1/2 pay after 20 years, I understand that's up to 25 years now) starts looking more and more important. So you stick it out, try and find a specialized field that interests you and keeps you from murdering the clown that raped a little kid or robbed an elderly couple or something along those lines. I got into Commercial Vehicle Enforcement. Truckers are very nice guys overall, real nice to work with. Then, you retire and listen to people complain that you got a sweetheart deal. All you had to do is deal with the scum of the earth, see things that would give Stephen King nightmares, tell people their kids or spouses were dead, not sleep regularly for 20_ years and watch your back every second- not for bad guys, for IAB or EEOC or a newsie who catches you on film with out your Stetson on (grounds for charges in some cases).
BTW- I started in 1987 at $17K, I left 23 years later grossing over $85K. Most of the time I was overpaid, IMO. Some of the time it wasn't even anywhere near enough.
Trailer balls blocking a license plate? We had a name for those tickets that involves bovine excrement. Most of those type tickets come with a Correction Slip. You move the ball, stop by a garage or police station and get it signed by 1/2 hour after sunset the first full business day following issuance of the ticket and it'll be dismissed. I understand some courts no apply a surcharge even to those tickets, so you end up getting nabbed for $25.00. Last I knew that was the local Justices call.
Those tickets get written because you have to show your activity. If you don't your get screamed at by your Sgt, reports get filed on you, you get screamed at by a Zone Sgt and later your Captain or God help you, The Major. By that time you're probably looking at a transfer to someplace across the State or maybe termination. I hated it which is why I'm pretty much deaf- due to the screaming. Blame it on statisticians and number crunchers and micro managing bean counters because those are the guys that run the show folks.
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