Food for thought.
Discussion
"At a sherry party given by the lady members of the County Council to the wives of Chief Officers, a member went up to my wife and said that I - as County Surveyor - was 'murdering' the children at Lower Hogwash because I had successfully opposed an unreasonable speed limit. ...It was many times said to me, when I asked why people wanted a [speed] limit, 'Oh, yes, we know it won't stop accidents, but it will enable the police to prosecute drivers.' " ( J.J.Leeming, former County Surveyor of Dorset, in an article in Road & Track magazine, February 1970, pages 41-45. The article, Do Speed Limits Work? was originally published in Motor magazine.)
"...the New York State Police concluded that they had to present to the legislature proof that their search-and-destroy anti-speed tactics were producing results in reducing accidents. Because this was statistically impossible, the trooper hierarchy quietly passed the word to its outposts across the state to let local sheriff's departments and city police investigate as many traffic accidents as possible - thereby producing numerical evidence that while the State Police issued more speeding tickets, they investigated fewer accidents! A preposterous tale of bureaucratic abuse, but a fair example of how the entire question of speed law enforcement has become detached from the public interest and can, as in this instance, run contrary to it as agencies seek to justify their existence." ( Brock Yates in Car and Driver magazine, February 1970, page 12.)
"The end cannot justify the means, for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced." (From chapter 1 of Ends and Means by Aldous Huxley, 1937.)
"...the New York State Police concluded that they had to present to the legislature proof that their search-and-destroy anti-speed tactics were producing results in reducing accidents. Because this was statistically impossible, the trooper hierarchy quietly passed the word to its outposts across the state to let local sheriff's departments and city police investigate as many traffic accidents as possible - thereby producing numerical evidence that while the State Police issued more speeding tickets, they investigated fewer accidents! A preposterous tale of bureaucratic abuse, but a fair example of how the entire question of speed law enforcement has become detached from the public interest and can, as in this instance, run contrary to it as agencies seek to justify their existence." ( Brock Yates in Car and Driver magazine, February 1970, page 12.)
"The end cannot justify the means, for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced." (From chapter 1 of Ends and Means by Aldous Huxley, 1937.)
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