When is Foristell Police NOT issueing tickets.

Go Chief Johnson! As we can see, there is no shortage of people who want to take shortcuts around the law. Being a sober driver and obeying the law while driving are not optional. No doubt I’ll get flamed from all of the people who think taking liberties on the roads are not only their options, but their rights. Bring it on! Anyone working to make these horrible lettered goat paths (state highways) safer is a hero in my book! WE NEED MORE LIKE THE FORISTELL PD!

What does that work out to? About 45 citations per officer?

Hooray! Hooray! Booey for Foristell! That is one of the biggest speed traps in the state. How sad it is when a hole in the wall town has to rely on the revenue from a speed trap to function. Foristell is not alone, just look at some of the little nothing muni’s in STL county. If writing tickets is all your cops have to do, you don’t need a police force. I am all for law enforcement and cops on patrol…but not speed traps. Cops sitting there at night without their lights on catching speeders. What a deal!

So, O’Fallon Dude, if someone came tearing through your street and chose to disregard a stop sign, or ran their trucks around the weigh station through your neighborhood, you’d be okay with that, right? They are protecting their constituents’ neighborhood and the quality of life they set into ordinance. Seems like they’re the only ones doing it. How’s this for a novel idea if don’t like speed traps: pay attention, drive with courtesy, drive sober, drive the speed limit, and stop where you have to. The only people they catch are the ones that need to be caught, the ones who drive like maniacs - including politicians’ sons and brothers-in-law. Seems like one of the few places where, “Do you know who I am?” does not apply, either. That’s why whats-his-name, the State Senator from Washington has a legislative and public vendetta against them. They dared write his poor-driver son and poor-driver brother-in-law. Wow, imagine, integrity, too. More “speed traps” I say.

90 citations? Why does it say ’some’? What were the others? Why only a ‘partial’ list? Could it be that many were ‘pushing it’ and somewhat frivolous? Watch Foristell. They are a money making speed trap machine hiding behind ’saving lives’….

Foristell police are a hazard on I-70.
Jamming on brakes with no turn signal to park and running radar in emergency turn around area.
Driving at unnecessary high speeds and passing on the right during the thrill chase to Wentzville.
Tapping brake lights on after midnight park on highway turn around during rain storm confusing interstate travelers and creating yet another hazard.
Foristell needs to STAY OFF the interstate and patrol their on yard.
Just like Hal suggest.
Hal I don’t think ofallondude has problem with “city patrol”

I believe that if you don’t respond to calls on the highway (accidents, careless and imprudent drivers, road rage, etc.), you shouldn’t be harvesting its crop of violators. Foristell does handle calls on the highway, but others might not. The problem is that the Highway Patrol has weak staffing for having to patrol Interstates as well as the goat paths. Locals wouldn’t need to patrol the Interstate if MSHP had a positioned every other mile, like Ohio does. Then, drivers might actually drive the speed limit, stay out of the left lane except to pass at a lawful speed, yield to the highway traffic when entering the roadway, make signaled lane changes, feel less tempted to drive while intoxicated or distracted by their cellphone (which has been proven by independent scientific research to be as impairing as having a blood alcohol level of 0.08% (Strayer, Drews, & Crouch, 2006), even WITH hands-free kits)… I think you get the picture. We might actually have safe roads in Missouri. If everyone is watching themselves because of an increased law enforcement presence on the roadways, the fatality rates would be lower. But that’s in a perfect world. In libertarian Missouri, we’re lucky to have one trooper for every thousand square miles. Low taxes = no service. As for turnarounds they’re for emergency vehicles (like police cars), not patrons on the Interstate. Good luck to us all; don’t ever think the other driver is dealing with a full deck.

What is really scary is that 9% of the citations were for seat belt violations. Pulleze.