Bedford, NY – A town Judge has been admonished by the state Commission on Judicial Conduct for imposing a total of $11,281 in excessive fines in 209 traffic cases.
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According to The Journal News, Town Justice Charles G. Banks Jr. levied thousands of dollars in excessive fines on motorists at the end of 2006 and 2007, according to a state judicial oversight panel, which found his conduct at least created the appearance he was handing down outsized penalties to bolster town coffers.
I have sent written apologies to all affected persons, and have arranged for those persons to receive a refund of any excess fine that was imposed,” Banks wrote in a statement e-mailed to The Journal News by his lawyer.
B”H
how do they define excessive? I think a lot of the tickets are excessive….
check out the Pallisades Parkway court
The speed traps on 684 between Exits 4 and 6 are huge revenue producers for Bedford. Keep it at 65, especially near milepost 15.
Listen please.
We all have heard and read about deaths and crippling injuries connected to speeding.
Forget the fines!
Fines—shmines.
What about life?
Yes, they are wrong for setting speed traps just to fill up their town’s funds.
But, forget them!
In this week’s sedra Vaeschanan, we learn to watch our souls very carefully!
If we do not speed, we are following the correct path to life and we are doing a mitzvah and we are following the Torah.
“No speeding” is not an imposition placed on us.
“No speeding” promotes life, health and safety.
The local govermemt can not keep any fine or penalty for them self. they have 2 choices.
1. Give the money to the state
2. Give the money to the people via check
the end of year ( for example a county collected a total of a million dollars and has ten tousend residents. Send a $100 check to every resident.
It’s one big racket. The cops fill a quota. the judges fill the coffers. The mayors fill their pockets.
Many people I know when pulled over got more then one ticket. This way if the fine is lowered on one ticket they get you for the other. My brother got pulled over for speeding he got 3 more tickets. The cop didn’ like the way the front plate was on. And 2 for too dark tinted windows (one for each window.) Since there is no price on the ticket you have no choice but to go and try to fight it,
In New york city the bike lanes are treated like a no stoping zones which is one of the most expensive violations and the agents get you even for dropping someone off.