Recent comments in /f/Connecticut

silasmoeckel t1_jebuqxx wrote

Think that realy depends. Look at the mixmaster they put in the temp bypass and tried to slow everybody down to 45 from 85 for no reason. No workers anywhere near it and no reason to turn it into a money machine with automated cameras. Speeds came down to about 65 and were reasonable there. If your looking at doing this need a 99.9th percentile or something so it's only the oddball fastest person out over every 1k cars or something like that.

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csmart01 t1_jebu6as wrote

I’m in the Netherlands pretty often and they only use technology to enforce speeding and red lights. It’s a drag to find out a month later you got a ticket. They go so far as having “average speed zones” that can be up to 10km in length. Basically they tag you entering the zone and exiting and look at the time and if your average speed between the points exceeded the limit by 10km/hr you get a ticket. These really suck when they are lengthy between points because you forget your are in the zone. Basically I now drive with my cruise set to the exact limit :)

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kingkush1974 t1_jebphao wrote

Would've been easier if they start transition in prison maybe teach some basic life skills would probably help .maybe a work half way house for 6 months help inmates with work skills help budget money.get them hooked up with success ppl

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CarlinHicksCross t1_jebnp8m wrote

I mean, it hasn't done anything to impact the current amount of fentanyl flooding the country. 7k bags of fentanyl off the streets of hartford is a literal drop in the pan, lol. Country wide no matter how many busts and large scale drug operations we do, the overdose rate and addiction rates continue to soar, people continue to have unfettered access to fentanyl, and we continue to wage a useless war on drugs that's been nothing but an abject failure since the 70s.

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CarlinHicksCross t1_jebmiuc wrote

Rep. Craig Fishbein, R- Wallingford, said those DUI penalties did little to address roadway fatalities caused by impaired driving. 

“Unfortunately in many of these instances, somebody’s dead and you can’t bring them back,” Fishbein said. “So it’s not solace to me that, ‘Well they’re still going to get arrested for driving under the influence.’”

Well, the most problematic substance by a significant margin is alcohol, yet they don't give a shit about that here.

Just because you're decriminalizing personal amounts of mushrooms doesn't mean people will be buying them to drive on them now, lol. People who consume them now don't care about the legality regardless, and someone irresponsible enough to drive while under the influence of a psychedelic are going to do it regardless of the legal status of said drug. The entire point is to stop legally punishing people for possession of a substance that's less dangerous then many many others and has stated therapeutic effects. Republicans will never get behind this kind of stuff no matter how much it makes sense.

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