I've been on the road a lot lately and it seems like I'm seeing more traps and more cruisers. Also it looks like the state troopers are riding with partners. I saw two doubled up cruisers just this morning on the pike. Anyone else notice this?
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I've been on the road a lot lately and it seems like I'm seeing more traps and more cruisers. Also it looks like the state troopers are riding with partners. I saw two doubled up cruisers just this morning on the pike. Anyone else notice this?
They just graduated a class of around 280 something [STRIKE=troopers]troopers[/STRIKE] revenue agents....so it's not surprising.
What's wrong, don't you feel safer???
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Newbie gunslinging kids dressing up like nazis, and I'm supposed to feel safe? I'm suprised we didn't read about more dead innocents....or is that slated for the next couple of weeks?
Always wondered why such a distributed force like the state police didn't double up their officers per car as a standard practice.
This is MA, you want every officer to park their cruiser in the driveway? We have the money in the budget for that, sure.
I personally don't think there needs to be as many State police as there are. I drive from Fairhaven to the Cape for work. I pass one about twice a week who always appears to be asleep in a woods covered path between 195E and 195W. I pass another 2 on average on route 25.
If I'm seeing an average of 3 each day on a 30 minute drive. I just think there are too many. I can't drive 20 minutes to the Dartmouth mall without passing at least one. I'm all about a police force that is of sufficient size to meet the need. But this is excessive.
This is MA, you want every officer to park their cruiser in the driveway? We have the money in the budget for that, sure.
Newbie gunslinging kids dressing up like nazis, and I'm supposed to feel safe? I'm suprised we didn't read about more dead innocents....or is that slated for the next couple of weeks?
That's a cheap shot...not worthy of you. I don't know where you get the Nazi connection either. The MSP uniform was modeled after the French Officer uniform of WWI.
i also have noticed a increase in speed traps between lowell and burlington on route 3, have noticed they are working in pairs, i have no problem with it, they do more good than bad and are usually there to help you out when you call on them for example a accident, indirectly there is a change they affected your life in a positive way and there is no way to quantify it, hypothetically that under influenced driver they bagged could have smashed into and killed your wife, girlfriend or daughter. The only incident that really rubbed me the wrong way is when a lowell cop pulled me over, once I was ticketed he asked that i turn on my radar detector, i did what i asked thinking it was a odd request. He took his radar gun and blasted it directly into the detector, dick move and a destruction of property still pisses me off to this day 6 years later but I settle myself thinking he might have done good over all once you take away the injustices.....just my 2 cents
I was under the impression that it was the other way around, and the gestapo actually chose to model their uniform after what the MSP was wearing back in the 30s.
In other words, the troopers didn't dress up like Nazis. The Nazis dressed up like Mass state troopers.
Route 2 near Concord Friday spotted a cruiser riding double (passenger looked like he was running plates) weaving in and out of rush hour traffic flagging victims. I hadn't really seen something that deliberate until last week...
Other states give their officers take home cars and allow them to use them off-duty.
If you haven't then you haven't been paying attention. MSP goes fishing/trolling for registration/insurance paper violators all the time.
-Mike
I found being alert, looking ahead, watching to see if traffic far ahead slams on there brakes and just not exceeding the flow of traffic has treated me good, six years without a ticket and counting