It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the end of the month, and the cops can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t seem to scribble out tickets fast enough. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve seen them waving down bikers in Isla Vista and perched along the bike paths on campus, ready to pounce on skateboarders. The man in blue seems to be in a state of frenzy.<\/p>\n
\u00c2\u00a0long time ago, a distant cousin told me – among other loony conspiracy theories – that cops need to meet a certain quota of tickets at the end of each month in order to keep a good standing. I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really believe him or really care, at the time. To be honest, I still don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t completely believe it, but I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t help noticing a bit of a pattern. Cops are usually present, handing out a few citations to remind us that they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re watching, and…\u00c2\u00a0 More info…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the end of the month, and the cops can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t seem to scribble out tickets fast enough. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve seen them waving down bikers in Isla Vista and perched along the bike paths on campus, ready to pounce on skateboarders. The man in blue seems to be in a state of frenzy. \u00c2\u00a0long time ago, a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,6,39,41,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bmx","category-cycling","category-mt-bike","category-road-bike","category-skateboard-mountain-board"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":271,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions\/271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}