Police write 31 tickets, 34 warnings and make two arrests in enforcement mission

This is a step in the right direction, but we need our infrastructure to discourage and prevent negligence from killing us. There aren’t enough lawpersons out there to ticket and enforce acceptable driving behavior, nor do we want to live in a police state.

Portland’s not Missouri, nor is it Baltimore or Chicago where you have a largely white suburban police force patrolling impoverished largely black cities. I think we can set aside the hysterical fear of massive deaths of racial minorities by racist cops. The fact is that our near-complete lack of traffic law enforcement has made our streets into killing fields. Add in the fact that there are very minimal punishments for people who kill with cars, and one can see that if we want to have civilized streets, our largest public space, we need to enforce the law.

I’m bothered that some people feel that traffic enforcement creates a police state. These laws are on the books for a reason and that reason is that without them, or without enforcing them, we have CARnage on our streets. I’m not okay with that.

“why isn’t anyone talking about this?” is such a great resource. thanks for mentioning them.

Let’s use lots more photo radar enforcement with a 5 mph buffer instead of a 10 mph buffer. And use lots more red light cameras. I’ve never detected a speed gun and a camera that discriminated on the basis of the ethnicity or gender of the operator.

By the way, I’ve never seen any reports of an enforcement action that reported on the color of the motorists who broke the law.

Motorcyclists on sidewalks!? At least he is wearing a helmet, or Amanda would have a fit.

I would like to see more citizen involvement in these actions. What if we have citizens back-up officers with stopwatches timing a clearly marked interval of e.g. 50 yards in a 25mph zone = 4s. Then, wave down and ticket everybody who goes through in less than 4s. No exceptions.

They always seem to have a few DUII and other arrests with these, despite the warning signs, media broadcasts, and broad daylight. So what about the people they didn’t stop, or every other day?

Glad to see more action, but it barely scratches the surface.

Hear, hear!

Except for cheesy enforcement of a stop sign on bikes. That is a complete waste of time.

This is a great step, but I’d like to see unannounced traffic enforcement during peak and off-peak hours. I’d like to see these sort of things happen without all the advance notice to the media and with signage. I think it would do more to educate people than these targeted, pre-scheduled, pre-announced things.