Have you noticed more police out giving tickets on freeways and roads?
The Honolulu Police Department tells us thanks to federal grant money, it’s able to step up traffic enforcement by using the money to pay for officers’ overtime.
“We have a speeding grant, a distracted driving grant, a pedestrian grant, a bicycling grant, and then we have a Click It or Ticket occupant protection and a DUI grant,” said acting Capt. Ben Moszkowicz. “So with those five enforcement grants, total it’s approximately $1.8 million that we get from the federal government to bring in officers on overtime to conduct enforcement in addition to their regular duties.”
HPD says enforcement occurs year-round, but the focus can vary during certain parts of the year.
“So when school is out, we tend to peak the speeding grants. Around holiday weekends and three-day weekends, Christmas time, Thanksgiving time, we tend to spend more time on the drug and alcohol driving-impaired grants,” Moszkowicz explained.
Moszkowicz says the department must meet certain stipulated goals in order to continue receiving grant money.
“We continue to perform according to those grant goals. We share what those grant goals are with those officers, but there’s not a quota,” he said.
Notice more police officers out writing tickets? HPD explains why
Organized crime to the MAX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Grants are not FREE MONEY
Grants are our tax dollars, and in this case ..again like many , it is our own money being used against us , this is subjugation, and should be made illegal with prison sentences for its use on the public
I wish I had the ability to be a great speaker , and an activist ,,. because these Fcks need their ship dry docked for life, these law makers or policy queens need to be walked down a short pier
“$1.8 million that we get from the federal government” this statement is a LIE!..the 1.8 Mil is all ours , our tax dollars..
Overtime pay for highway robbery.
“We have a speeding grant, a distracted driving grant, a pedestrian grant, a bicycling grant, and then we have a Click It or Ticket occupant protection and a DUI grant,”
Takes mammon to make mammon.
Perpetual mammon ‘motion’.
Yep, here we are, Paying for the violations of our Bill of rights on a daily basis.
“The Honolulu Police Department tells us thanks to federal grant money, it’s able to step up traffic enforcement by using the money to pay for officers’ overtime.”
So instead of solving crimes, you use your overtime pay to enforce traffic laws?
Especially when you have more homeless people wondering the streets on the island of Oahu than any place I know.
Trust me, I spent a week there not too long ago. The locals say due to the corporations digging up everything and building unnecessary shit on their small island (and bringing their foreign worker friends with them, too), they are polluting the island, causing high inflation, high unemployment and constant homelessness. Basically, like us Mainland Americans, they too, are being pushed out of their own homes and land.
So in the end what are the police going to do? Ask them to pay in fingers?