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Jumping Frog wrote:

talltex wrote:The state does track the volume and dollar amounts of traffic violations by town...

Interesting. Do you know where I could find that? Link?

You will have to dig through their site to find it, but it is the office of court administration.
http://www.courts.state.tx.us/oca/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Oldgringo wrote:What, exactly, is a "speed trap"?

The legal definition on entrapment does not match what most people think of as a speed trap. Most people think of strict enforcement of posted limits as a speed trap. The legal definition, and these do exist but are much more rare than people think, is when the police entice a suspect into committing a criminal act that he did not have the predisposition to commit.

So, in the eyes of the law, a speed trap exists when the person is speeding and has no way to obey the law. An example of this is when a city posts a new speed limit that is significantly lower than the prior limit on that road, and there is no warning sign of the limit change. If they write the ticket for someone as soon as they enter the new speed zone, that would be entrapment. Another example might be not clearly posting the speed limit at all and then enforcing it as if it was posted.

But as I said, those are very rare now and most people use the term speed trap for any place that strictly enforces the speed laws.

There is a way to challenge speed limits. You just need to show that it is not the highest reasonable and prudent speed for existing conditions. You can actually ask for the engineering or traffic study the posted limit is based on, if you really want to question it.

I have to warn you that doing so is not guaranteed to do anything except irritate the powers that be in that area.