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Re: Aggressive Driving

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From: Joel Garry
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 00:00
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On Fri, 10 Jul 1998 08:24:43 GMT, E. Faubion <in@the.sig> wrote:
>joelga@pebble.org (Joel Garry) wrote:
>
>>>>What would you do if you were ordered to as part of departmental policy?
>
>>>Write 'em at 10 or more over.  Look around you and read some of the
>>>posts.  It's a target rich environment.
>
>>Cool!  Respect for you has just gone up several notches.  Tell everyone you
>>work with they should ignore management when they disagree with the policies.
>
>There's no need to tell them something they already know.  It's kind
>of a moot point anyway since we've never been asked to write them for
>less that ten over.   By ordinance and departmental policy we can and
>on rare unusual occassions it has happened but it is not the norm.
>

It may not be the norm where you are, but it will come, seeing as it
"worked" in California.  Of course, they were only measuring speed, ignoring
the effect of people being pissed off that otherwise were neutral or
positive toward the CHP.  Personally, I would call that "bad management,"
because it ignores important factors of causality of the problem.

jg
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From: joelga@pebble.org (Joel Garry)
Subject: Re: Aggressive Driving
Date: 1998/07/10
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