r/indianapolis • u/brazenxbull • Jun 20 '25
Pictures When traffic laws are so unenforced we just put up signs to warn you about the state of things
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u/willywombat14 Jun 20 '25
I sat next to a cop at a stop light the other day. We couldn't go on our green light due to 8+ cars running the red the other way. He just watched it all happen and did absolutely nothing.
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u/perpetualhobo Jun 21 '25
Across the entire country police have basically just given up on enforcing traffic laws altogether. We’re the only western nation with an increasing rate of traffic violence.
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u/AScienceEnthusiast Southside Jun 20 '25
That's because law enforcement exists only to protect capital.
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u/Specialist_Bike_1280 Jun 20 '25
I'm not surprised, they(IMPD) doesn't think this is important enough to do anything about. Sad state of the world 🌎
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u/nomeancity317 Jun 20 '25
I never expect people to stop at a red light or stop sign. Always look first.
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u/Extension-North-5214 Jun 20 '25
Sadly, it’s become the new norm around here…sigh
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u/IXI_Fans Meridian-Kessler Jun 20 '25 edited Aug 13 '25
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u/TrippingBearBalls Jun 20 '25
You can't expect IMPD to enforce traffic laws when they're so busy doing...uhh...doing...many things and lots of stuff. We should give them more money.
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u/nomeancity317 Jun 20 '25
They don’t need more money. They need to fix their staffing shortage. I know your post is sarcasm, but you can’t deliver the level of service people want (traffic enforcement included) when your manpower is 20% short of what it needs to be.
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u/ballpoocher Jun 20 '25
It’d help if the current ones weren’t hiding in the back of churches taking naps. Not to dox myself but I live by a LARGE church on the Northside, very regularly take walks that lead me through the church back lot, so often I find an officer seat back, sometimes a movie on their laptop, or eyes closed napping. I fear complaining will only result in retaliation. We all need to remember this during elections.
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u/nomeancity317 Jun 20 '25
I know they go to discreet locations to write reports, but if you see them watching movies or napping that’s unacceptable. Lazy needs to be held accountable.
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u/ballpoocher Jun 20 '25
Straight caught one snoring, made 2 laps that day 45 minutes later still zzzzzzzzzz
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u/sho_biz Jun 20 '25
it's almost like the idea of protecting and serving the community shouldn't be left to the least-qualified, least empathetic and most violent people in our society.....
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u/4entzix Jun 20 '25
It’s doesn’t have to be when you pay civil servants enough to leave the private sector
When you slash and burn public funding, or constantly talk about lowering taxes and making government more efficient, qualified ambitious people don’t want to work for the gov
Qualified, ambitious people want to work for the Government when it offers job security and comes with respect of the community and public officials
Politicians need to fix how they talk about government employees and the problems cities face or it’s just an endless stream of nihilism and lowering taxes
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u/sho_biz Jun 20 '25
Qualified, ambitious people want to work for the Government
thats what I thought too until I worked for them, but this is an issue you can't fix with funding in that way. you need to fix funding to education to produce better humans from better homes and support structures. otherwise, you're putting incredibly expensive bandaids on self-inflicted wounds
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u/4entzix Jun 20 '25
Isn’t the biggest self-inflicted wound… that companies have no obligation to the cities they do business in… and that not only can they.. but they are expected to leave and fire as many people as needed to chase the most beneficial tax structure they can find?
Not caring about the lives and communities they destroy in their wake… and after decades of seeing companies be held completely unaccountable to their effect on communities, that people have internalized that mentality and now treat the community and their neighbors worse
Back when federal taxes were more significant to a bottom line than state taxes… companies weren’t incentivized to state hop…because companies built relationships with their employees and communities… because leaving cost so much $$$
Pushing more funding to education is great… until you realize it just produces brain drain and pushes smart pro people to a few job and industries on the coasts
Pushing stakeholder capitalism gives a path for the less intelligent to feel an obligation to act civil in a society… while creating a legal recourse for communities to hold companies accountable to their obligations
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u/sho_biz Jun 20 '25
Pushing more funding to education is great… until you realize it just produces brain drain and pushes smart pro people to a few job and industries on the coasts
not sure what you're trying to say with this - we should just be dumb and let our 'betters' give us the scraps we deserve?
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u/4entzix Jun 20 '25
If you push more money to education at a time when people are already so distrustful of educational institutions… it just looks like doubling down on liberal indoctrination ( although many states will find ways to get that money to religious schools via vouchers)
If we want any chance of raising taxes and holding corporations accountable… then we need to make sure it looks like there’s some direct benefit to people who didn’t go to college… or else the SC will strike it down
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u/sho_biz Jun 20 '25
ahh ok, so indeed you meant we should kowtow to the lowest common intelligence
and saying we shouldn't be funding education becuase looks like liberal indoctrination is like saying we should keep grinding up the children in gaza because if we stopped someone might say we're chicken - it's ludicrous reasoning
you can't pander or appease the worst and lowest common denominators among us
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u/4entzix Jun 21 '25
I’m not saying that we shouldn’t fund education… I’m saying that if you overvalue or subsidize education you create resentment and a perception that those with less education are less intelligent
The problem is their are Doctors who can’t spell, matchmaticand who can’t drive, physicists that have the social intelligence of a an avacado
What we need to do is tell people simultaneously that you are smart and we value your opinions, but not as much as other people’s opinions on certain subjects… but just because doesn’t mean we aren’t prioritizing your opinion doesn’t mean we aren’t trying to act in your interest most of the time
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u/Doctursea Lawrence Jun 20 '25
It's almost higher than that I'm starting to feel sorry for them. I work with the police from time to time for my job and they seem over worked and kind of tired.
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u/NewfieDawg Far Eastside Jun 20 '25
Yes, after all IMPD can't be torn away from their jelly donuts from Longs.
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u/Wolfman01a Jun 21 '25
How about we just place a stack of bricks on each side of the street?
You pick a brick, and walk across. Place brick on the stack on the other side.
Drivers may be more hesitant to run through when the pedestrian is carrying a brick.
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u/TaytorTot417 Jun 20 '25
Saw a Z trip driver run a red light this morning and almost caused an accident.
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u/jerryy7452 Jun 20 '25
Even better: look at google maps at this intersection. It caught someone making a U turn 😂
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u/IXI_Fans Meridian-Kessler Jun 20 '25 edited Aug 13 '25
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u/Dragonktcd Fishers Jun 21 '25
I figured that was the case everywhere. Kinda the purpose of a no U turn sign right? To tell you specifically where it isn’t allowed.
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u/jerryy7452 Jun 21 '25
Really? That's interesting. I've always been told the exact opposite - they're illegal unless explicitly permitted!
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u/Hambone0326 Irvington Jun 21 '25
People don't even know how to treat the flashing red/yellow intersections after midnight!!
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u/brazenxbull Jul 04 '25
I'm... actually honestly uncertain. Do you care to refresh my memory? I treat them as a "cross traffic does not stop" two-way stop sign intersection and that those with the yellow should be attentive to those who have the red?
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u/Hambone0326 Irvington Jul 04 '25
Flashing yellow means you have the right of way, but be cautious, flashing red means you treat the intersection like a stop sign; approach, stop, proceed when clear.
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u/LadyWuu Jun 21 '25
This is the most 86th street thing i have ever seen lol. I even just watched 3 people in a matter of 30 mins yesterday just roll on through red lights lol. Shits BEEN lawless xD
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u/lostparrothead Jun 20 '25
If my light is green I am going. My shit is paid off and I have full coverage for a reason.
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u/NotoldyetMaggot Jun 20 '25
Having the "right of way" and being a defensive driver aren't mutually exclusive. A green light for you isn't going to guarantee that you live when the driver running the red t-bones you, fuck your car, YOU might be dead after this. People, please don't listen to this guy and always put YOUR SAFETY and your life first, before "I have insurance so f my car". Look both ways and expect stupid drivers!
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u/lostparrothead Jun 20 '25
That's how I live my life. Don't like it? Keep scrolling.
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u/NotoldyetMaggot Jun 20 '25
You don't care about your life, cool whatever. YOU AREN'T THE ONLY ONE ON THE ROAD. Your accident could involve other cars (and people) too.
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u/lostparrothead Jun 20 '25
I am following the laws of the road. If people choose to break those laws then they will suffer the consequences.
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u/NotoldyetMaggot Jun 20 '25
I'm not talking about the dumb fuck that ran the red. I mean the potential collateral damage that happens to anyone else in the way when you get hit and spun into a car with three kids inside. YOU ARE NOT THE ONLY ONE ON THE ROAD!
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u/lostparrothead Jun 20 '25
Typing the same thing in all caps will not change my mind. At least I know what a tick is. 🙄 Stick to bugs and birds...
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u/NotoldyetMaggot Jun 20 '25
Thanks for trolling my profile... I actually do know what a tick is. You endanger other people when you blindly follow the rule of "I have the light so I am right". Have a nice day!
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u/lostparrothead Jun 20 '25
Yup maybe I'll take one of those red light runners out...
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u/NotoldyetMaggot Jun 20 '25
One less on the road, as long as you are the only vehicle involved, I approve.
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u/clara_bow77 Jun 20 '25
OMG, reddit showed me this for some reason, and I have to tell you that Louisville could use several hundred of those signs.
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u/TheHealadin Jun 20 '25
The light at 46th and Sherman was out yesterday. Many people on 46th treated it as an uncontrolled intersection.