If you can't read that attitude, or course fall back on zipped lips.Įvery officer also has far too much paperwork to complete for every ticket issued… In every jurisdiction, every officer has an attitude. I've been in the same situation more than once and through simply fessing up to the speed I was doing, got right off - an even better result than Jim's reduction.
That must take into account both to what extent you were speeding, and whether your offence was in a built-up area or on an open high-way.
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This situation is one you can only fly by the seat of your pants, and as the moment dictates… assuming your speeding was not what many drivers would consider excessive in the circumstances. Who doubts that in Law, we should never even hint there was a possibility of any infraction, and so what?
But trading your integrity for an extremely small chance that you might be let off a relatively small fine, that doesn't sound like a good trade to me. Your integrity may or may not be valuable to you - it's up to you of course. Denying it, or even remaining silent in the hope that you will get away with it, makes you less so. If you admit that you did something that you actually did, then that makes you a person of integrity. Every time a cop treats a non-cop harshly this reinforces in that person's mind the idea that all cops are jerks who need to be resisted at all time. Specifically every time a cop encounters someone who is uncooperative it adds a little bit in their mind to the opinion that all non-cops are jerks to be dealt with harshly. Always being combative in encounters makes society run less smoothly.
The smooth running of society depends on the reasonable behaviour of most of the people involved most of the time. You also have to ask yourself: What are you going to do with the ticket? If you are going to pay it then what on earth difference does it make if you confess now? If you are going to dispute it (knowing that you are actually guilty) then you are really doubling down on making life difficult. You will end up being detained for longer the cop has to spend longer dealing with you you come over as an argumentative person (which will make the cop less likely to be lenient on you) everybody comes away from the encounter slightly more annoyed, slightly more delayed, and with a slightly dimmer view of the general state of humanity. Denying something which you know you have done and which they know you have done (or even not admitting it) is just wasting everybody's time. The benefit of confession is that it makes the entire encounter go smoother.
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