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? asked in Politics & GovernmentLaw & Ethics · 7 years ago

Does statutory law in Texas still permit municipal police agencies to engage in?

the insidious and quasi-illegal practice of issuing “Negligent Collision” citations for traffic incidents that the issuer never observed?

Historically, that has been a Texas practice by which government instrumentalities are able to profit from citizen misfortune while effectively denying Constitutional and precedence right to have one’s day in court. The practice is most egregious in cities where city civil service reg's places many police in position of making judgment calls far above their education, intellect, and personal maturity. It is a practice peculiar to Texas as far as this questioner has observed.

Since the state has spent considerable time and resources revamping its statues, in part to remove the jurisprudential stigma that for so long has been a source of ridicule of that state, I would surmise that such a practice would by now have been curtailed...

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  • John
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    Nope.

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