Thoughts 19 Mar 2007 02:16 pm
Welcome to Northtown
Since March 5, today is Mar. 19, the North Las Vegas police department has issued around 50 $190 tickets to middle and high school students for j-walking.
Not a single warning is on record and the city of NLV says this is in the name of safety.
A spokesman for the city says it’s because the students are in the habit of blocking traffic and fighting.
OK, why are the cops targeting individuals instead of the groups?
The reason is simple, money, if they get a kid for j-walking it’s a simple ticket, it’s just wham, bam, thank you maam,…next, but if they go after groups, first they have to catch them, and then they have to actually arrest and charge them.
Tickets do nothing to resolve the basic issues of discipline, respect and enough common sense not to play in traffic.
Those problems go back to parenting and school discipline, or the lack there of.
But between home and school, never fear, Buford T. Justice lives, and as long as there’s a problem, he’s there to make a buck.