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From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: SLS: And you think we live in a free country ?! (fwd)
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>Your papers plzzz...
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>> http://www.athensnewspapers.com/1997/082997/0829.a2seatbelts.html
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>> Seat belt law crackdown nets 50,000
>>
>> By Lori Wiechman
>> Associated Press
>>
>> ATLANTA - A statewide, weeklong effort to catch Georgia drivers who
>> failed to buckle up resulted in more than 50,000 arrests, more than
>> half for seat belt violations but many involving felonies, the State
>> Patrol said Thursday.
>> The number of arrests in "Operation Strap 'N' Snap" was "totally
>> astounding and way over what we thought they would be," Georgia State
>> Patrol Col. Sid Miles said Thursday.
>> Officers from the Georgia State Patrol, sheriff's departments and
>> city police departments made 28,420 seat belt arrests during August
>> 18-24.
>> But more startling was the number of drug arrests (239), fugitives
>> apprehended (184), stolen vehicles (42) and other felonies (155),
>> Miles said.
>> "We didn't know it'd be these kind of numbers," he said.
>> But in some parts of Georgia, the law isn't being fully enforced.
>> "You need to give people a warning instead of right off the bat
>> writing a citation," said Pulaski County Sheriff Jerry Lancaster.
>> "I try to buckle mine up every time I get into the car. I 'bout got
>> accustomed to it," he said.
>> He said there's a need for the law, but he doesn't have that a big
>> enough force to monitor seat belt violators. First-time offenders will
>> receive a warning and then a citation if they are caught a second
>> time.
>> Miles said offenders are not supposed to get off that easy under
>> the seat belt law passed by the Legislature in 1996 that permitted
>> officers to stop people for not wearing seat belts.
>> "We don't write warnings for seat belts," he said. "We prefer he
>> wouldn't but that's his business."
>> In last week's "Operation Strap 'N' Snap," officers set up
>> roadblocks and observation points to apprehend drivers violating the
>> law.
>> An adult driver or passenger is fined $15. Those with young
>> children not in a car seat or seat belts are fined $50 for the first
>> offense and $100 for a second or subsequent ticket.
>> During the week, 2,526 drivers were ticketed for failing to have a
>> child in a car seat or wearing a seat belt. The highest number of
>> child restraint arrests was 107 in Toccoa, about 85 miles northeast of
>> Atlanta.
>> The effort is the first of eight crackdowns, the next of which will
>> come in a couple of months, Miles said. He said statistics show that
>> 68 percent of drivers wear seat belts.
>> The most seat-belt arrests were in 1,767 in Toccoa, followed by 944
>> in Dalton, about 80 miles northwest of Atlanta.
>> Of 239 drug arrests, nine were in Dublin, about 45 miles south of
>> Macon in central Georgia. Of 184 fugitives apprehended, 10 were in
>> Conyers, about 22 miles east of Atlanta.
>> "There are some who would say, 'Why aren't you guys out there
>> catching crooks?' You heard the numbers," said Thomas J. Enright,
>> regional administrator for the U.S. Department of Transportation.
>> "They got wanted felons, made drug arrests, found stolen cars. There
>> were out there catching crooks."
>> Miles said he will ask the Legislature to revise the law to include
>> pickup trucks, which often carry passengers unsecured in the back.
>> "We need to address the problem of pickups," he said.
>
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