The problem is that when I say "enforce" people right away associate it with "ticket" and that is not the case. Educating is also part of the solution and change of culture through education is what is needed but instead we focus all energy on "ticketing" the offenses that are easy to prove in court (revenue generating) neglecting the real causes of dangerous situations like Road Rage due to left lane bandits just to site one.
So no, I don't really care that it will be difficult for MR officer to prove certain offenses in court, they should be out doing their jobs which is serve and protect, part of serving is helping with the traffic flow of our streets and not just focus on bringing money back to the department, money from our pockets.
That is true. "Enforce" does carry a certain presumption of ticketing. However, I could have sworn it was not the official responsibility of any police service to administer driver education & licensing. That's the government's job through the MTO. It's certainly easy to blame cops though, and inevitably it always seems the police services are saddled with it.
Road rage is a serious issue in today's culture, but where did it all come from? As you stated, it's a social/cultural thing. How many hats must cops wear? Are cops to be therapists and leaders in cultural change? Policing certainly has changed. People want to take less responsibility for actions - blame everyone else - and weirdly the cops keep going along with it - wearing more hats.
As for your last comment I left quoted: It's just not that simple. There is so much more to it, and they certainly are not bringing money back to the department. It's money that goes back to the government - money the government wants and demands of the Chief, who demands of his subordinates, who demand of their subordinates all the way down to the PCs on the road juggling the often many pending radio calls for service and meeting their own work performance objectives/metrics. Just like any other employee/employer relationship.
I guess somewhere in their day we expect them to address the most important, most pressing issue of the vast majority of Canadian life - TRAFFIC and the HTA! Indeed, 101% of Canadians drive and are affected by traffic, road rage, tickets and the lack of policing it - right?!? Only .01% of Canadians are affected by Robberies, Murder, Assaults, Fraud, etc.. you know.. all that less important crap that ties up police resources. Yes, cops should be serving and protecting, and I thought that's what they did. Unfortunately everyone is too selfish to realize that their road-rage free, non-left lane bandit drive is not the bees knees and priority #1 for police. But, everyone expects police to just somehow solve the issue rather than looking to themselves or elsewhere for a solution.
I suppose we could pay more taxes so more cops can be hired to tackle Canada's biggest problem.
Anyways... it's not easy never easy to debate such topics via forums..
