http://www.mysouthborough.com/2009/07/01/when-it-comes-to-speeding-tickets-southborough-is-about-average/ News and events in Southborough, MA Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:41:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.mysouthborough.com/2009/07/01/when-it-comes-to-speeding-tickets-southborough-is-about-average/#comment-3842 Marty Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:50:49 +0000 http://www.mysouthborough.com/?p=7237#comment-3842 <em>(Removed at the commenter's request)</em> (Removed at the commenter’s request)

]]> http://www.mysouthborough.com/2009/07/01/when-it-comes-to-speeding-tickets-southborough-is-about-average/#comment-3824 susan Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:04:36 +0000 http://www.mysouthborough.com/?p=7237#comment-3824 For the record, it was a Channel 7 News report not a Globe report (so lower your expectations a bit) ... but yeah, I wish there was more data, too. For the record, it was a Channel 7 News report not a Globe report (so lower your expectations a bit) … but yeah, I wish there was more data, too.

]]> http://www.mysouthborough.com/2009/07/01/when-it-comes-to-speeding-tickets-southborough-is-about-average/#comment-3822 Peter Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:57:15 +0000 http://www.mysouthborough.com/?p=7237#comment-3822 Why doesn't the Globe article identify the actual number of tickets writtem by a department rather than the dollar value? Bear with me here: multiply the $4.35 per resident, times the Globe's list of 9,484 Southboro resident and it appears teh total amount of fines is $41,000. If you assume an average ticket is $50, then there were only 825 tickets writen in the entire year. THAT'S ONLY 2.2 TICKETS PER DAY. If you've got at least 2 patrol officers for each of the 3 shifts per day, that means that the average Southboro officer writes 1 TICKET EVERY THREE DAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Why doesn’t the Globe article identify the actual number of tickets writtem by a department rather than the dollar value? Bear with me here: multiply the $4.35 per resident, times the Globe’s list of 9,484 Southboro resident and it appears teh total amount of fines is $41,000. If you assume an average ticket is $50, then there were only 825 tickets writen in the entire year. THAT’S ONLY 2.2 TICKETS PER DAY. If you’ve got at least 2 patrol officers for each of the 3 shifts per day, that means that the average Southboro officer writes 1 TICKET EVERY THREE DAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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