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Douseigh t1_j7uyxql wrote

This happens everywhere in md police departments. Just not always with a benchmark metric, but best believe they report and compare numbers on everything from arrears to traffic stops and the trends month to month. If your trends are down and you’re getting money for highway safety or crime enforcement you better hope the trend in whatever bad outcome (violence, crashes etc) is not up or they’ll point at your numbers and say you’re doing a bad job

A lot of this by the way is result of people saying the police aren’t doing shit about stuff, they use these numbers to say they are doing something. It’s the only way they know how

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Matt3989 t1_j7uyfj8 wrote

Maryland would have to have a left lane law first.

Currently, the only law regarding 'left-lane use' we have on the book is that in the left lane of a 3+ lane expressway, you must be going at least within 10mph of the posted speed limit.

So the only 'legal' speeds in the left lane of the JFX are between 30-40mph in the southern part, and 40-50mph for all other portions in the city.

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BJJBean t1_j7us991 wrote

I have no data on any of this but it feels better and I seem to be seeing less accidents as of late. Logically it makes sense too, if you could go 90mph from exit 10 all the way to the city your average speed is 90mph. BUT, if you have to slow down to 50mph every couple of miles it lowers your average speed while also clumping cars together making it difficult to get back up to extreme speeds.

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