NYPD Traffic Sham - BUSTED! 54th Street and Madison Ave intersection, New York, NY (Part 1 of 2)

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54th Street and Madison Avenue intersection, New York, NY sham BUSTED!

May 8, 2009

This is wild. NYPD traffic cops set up the perfect trap on the 54th street intersection and are doling out $115 fines no questions asked.
The cars crossing Madison are being pulled over for blocking the box which is a total sham.
What happens is there is NO LEFT turn allowed on 54th before 6pm, so the cars that get stuck in the back of the line crossing Madison Avenue cannot turn left, and have to wait for the pedestrians to cross. Those cars that cross Madison Avenue that get stuck in the back of the line are not intentionally blocking the box, and cannot see as theyre crossing Madison Avenue that the cars up ahead are jammed up.
At that moment, the traffic cops, who are themselves in part causing the jam, walk up to the drivers caught in the back and scan their registration and print out a ticket for blocking the box.
The drivers who get upset at this blatantly false traffic ticket and subsequently attempt to point out the facts are brushed off, and told absolutely nothing.
Supposedly, the traffic cops are following orders in this particular operation to prevent spillback (where cars end up blocking the intersection). But instead of directing the traffic, and instead of preventing spillback, they cause more spillback.

At a rate of about 1 ticket a minute, this translates to well over $50,000 a day in these fraudulent traffic fines.

Every ticket ought to be voided from this incident.

If you have received a ticket as a result of this sham, email shambusta@gmail.com

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[djwestbrook36]

@XxGRAWM1A1xX the road and the enviorment creates tickets. there just feeding off other's people's money

[XxGRAWM1A1xX]

@1775novten Why can't they do both, why does it have to be one or the other? Why does coolecting revenue have to be some big huge argument when proventing accidents is no where to be mentioned? You're missing half of the point of a ticket and, instead of focusing on the money and the safety, you only focus on the part where the state makes money. Holly shit, the state making money off of citizens for wrong doing?! Someone call the UN, this is inhumane!

[1775novten]

@XxGRAWM1A1xX Unbelievable. So you're admitting yourself that they are writing these tickets to collect revenue, instead of serving the public, which is what we pay them for. Instead they are agents sent out by the city to collect revenue. This is a blatant conflict of interest. If the officers focus becomes collecting revenue instead of serving the citizens - don't you see how that is a conflict? Please watch?v=d9ArxnkWck0 if you get a chance - this exposes the conflict.

[XxGRAWM1A1xX]

@1775novten The best use of our tax dollars, yes. If we had peope just directing traffic there'd be no tickets gathering extra revenue. (Plus, that's what traffic lights are for) So, the city has ways to punish bad drivers and encourage good ones to continue their practices. If you saw some guy getting off for robbing a bank when everyone knows he did it, wouldn't you be mad? Don't you think there should be a punishment? Otherwise, people will continue their bad habbits.

[1775novten]

@XxGRAWM1A1xX So you do think it is the best use of our tax dollars and service that our public servants can provide? So instead of preventing the problem and potential safety hazard for the pedestrians - they'd rather wait for the offense to occur and then cite the drivers. That doesn't sound very logical to me.

[XxGRAWM1A1xX]

@1775novten For option one, that is why traffic lights were invented. That exact reason. Secondly, I highly doubt they were tourists as those were privatly owned vehices and even most New Yorkers don't own a car. What they were doing is what's called a "Zero Tollerance" sting where; they group up, pick an intersection, and do this for a full day. Everyone caught doing it gets a ticket, no exceptions. It's to bring awareness to laws like theses to people who forget or don't know.

[1775novten]

@XxGRAWM1A1xX So what do you think is a better service that these public servants could provide - 1) place one officer at the intersection to direct traffic, or 2) citing all the citizens who are likely tourists and unfamiliar with these intersections? You don't think it is predatory for these officers to be citing all these people instead of just preventing it in the first place by having an officer directing traffic?

[XxGRAWM1A1xX]

@1775novten The law that you can't block an intersection? There's a rule that states something like; "You may only enter an intersection when there is available space to proceed safely out of the intersection before the light turns red." In short, if you can't get out of the intersection before the red, you're a traffic hazard and likely to be cited.

[1775novten]

@XxGRAWM1A1xX Change what ways? What law did they break? You do realize that they did have a green light when they entered the intersection. If a driver is unfamiliar with that intersection and doesn't realize that green really doesn't mean go and instead they need to wait and see if the road ahead of them clears - then I can definitely see how this is an intersection problem - not a driver problem. And it appears the meter maids are praying on this, instead of helping it.

[XxGRAWM1A1xX]

How is this some sort of Sham? Is enforcing the law a sham now? Should I just ignore all laws because of this? Of course not, thses ridiculous claims of "sham" and whatnot are ludicrous. This is a legitimate problem and these traffic officers are doing something about it. Sure, they could let them go scot free, but there's no incentive not to do it again. People these days are so ignorant, if you don't want a ticket then don't break the law. Is it really that hard to understand?