I’m gonna walk down the street to the Sherrifs office and give them a piece of my mind. I’m one block off a major thoroughfare. My residential road (25mph) gets pretty heavy traffic at times. I can deal with that. It’s bad enough that the local rice racers and Harley’s wanna make all their ruckus at night....but the sheriff’s deputies that use this street as a GD launching point for their F14’s....or whatever it is they fly is too much.

60-65mph in a 25 mph zoned neighborhood is too much. There are driveways, plenty of foot traffic to nearby biz, and kids everywhere!

Am I wrong? I know Police frequently respond to Emergencies where they save lives. Credit for that, but should it endanger more lives? Maybe I’m just gettin old and cranky.

Seems like you're gonna need some video. Or a gentle approach.

If they are responding to a call with a legit need for speed, they're within the law. If they're flexing the muscles 'cuz nobody says anything, that's against the law.
There is nothing wrong at all with voicing your concern, and being irritated is a fairly common condition in the human animal.
I'm pretty sure that you'll get the "they're on legitimate calls that require a high speed response thankyewvarymush" but it's good to let them know that there are concerned citizens.
A concerned, even irritated citizen should have NOTHING to fear from his fellow citizens wearing a uniform and badge.

Cops love it when you give them shit and tell them they are a bunch of fuckups.

can you send em to my bitch neighbor too, maybe one day she'll hit her brother or sis.....




build your own asphalt speed bump and video that bitch...

Spike strips. Fuck it.

Hmmm who does the sheriff report to? My old neighbor complained about the fire trucks and city police speeding up and down the street to city mayor often enough they use the next street over when heading that way.

Yup. They especially like it when you lead with the worst insult you can think of. You'd do well to lead with that!

Get your neighbors to sign a petition to install speed humps. It will either slow them a little or push them onto another road.

My street is three blocks long and lots of people use it to bypass the bigger roads to either side. One of the neighbors got the city to install a round about sort of thing in one of the two intersections (it was originally supposed to be both intersections but the cost somehow doubled while it was being approved). It’s helped quite a bit with cars speeding through.


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Remind them that you pay their salary. They absolutely love hearing that. Great way to bring everyone to a common understanding of things.

If they're on their way to a call, then I wouldn't expect them to alter their route or change their response procedures. Would you even want them to? Maybe start by asking if there's a reason you seem to see a lot of emergency traffic. It shouldn't come across as a combative question and it might give you an opening to talk about why it's troublesome, given the normal speed limits and other traffic in your neighborhood. Who knows, maybe everyone's been sitting around pissed off about it but no one has brought it to their attention.

In Washington State the County Sheriff doesn't really have a boss. He reports to the voters in that county.

Sheriff is an elected position and is the "chief executive officer and conservator of the peace for that county".
There are procedures for impeachment and removal, but it would have to be for some serious shit.


When a sheriff leaves office pre term for whatever reason, the under-sheriff temporarily assumes his duties.
I believe the county council can appoint an acting sheriff pending the public election of a new sheriff, but are prohibited from appointing a permanent sheriff.
It was established that way on purpose.

Pretty hard to get rid of an elected county sheriff, not like a police chief that can simply be fired without cause by the mayor and city council.
When sheriffs fuck up, they usually resign or just don't get reelected anymore.