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Originally Posted by upflying
Motorcycle cops only write tickets (and handle collisions) and chances are good you will get a ticket when stopped by one.
City patrol cops only respond to calls for service and chances are good you won't get a ticket when stopped by one.
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I cannot speak for where you are at, but being that is a broad statement, I find it to be mostly incorrect. In the city I live in, aside from University police, Sheriff's Deputies, and State Troopers, the city police are divided into Traffic and Patrol officers, as well as other divisions such as narcotics and what not but I'm talking about the uniformed black and white driving types.
The vast majority are considered patrol officers. Part of their duties are to write tickets and monitor traffic situations in addition to taking any calls such as domestic violence, robbery, cat up tree and all that. Traffic officers operate on a quota of tickets. It's 50 per month. That includes warnings. They also respond to wrecks first, and only if they are busy will the wreck get kicked to a patrol officer. Either type of officer can respond to a murder, shooting, robbery, or fight just as either type of officer can and will write tickets and respond to wrecks.