And it's about time. The number of traffic accidents in the city has increased 10 percent since 1994. Police believe that rate is a direct result of the ever-increasing speed of traffic. The city's crime district and the Community Policing Program are funding the special effort. For example, police recently issued 82 citations in one day of the special program.
Police are especially right to focus on school zones.
If there's one place where speeders need to slow down, it's where kids are on their way to and from school. The leadfoots need to slow down. If they can't, the cops need to rein them in. The best thing about the state's education accountability system is that it puts emphasis on the performance on all students, ensuring that minorities and other subgroups are not left behind. That's why the new, toughened requirements on TAAS as they affect individual campuses are for the better.