Traffic tickets have gotten out of hand

Kudos for Kyle Jorrey's insightful and balanced inquiry into the current state of traffic enforcement in our area.

We are apparently blessed with lots of police and few criminals. Perhaps this pervasive police presence is one factor in keeping our community safe, but surely another is the general law-abiding nature of our citizenry.

That citizenry does not deserve being monitored as closely as mice in a maze just because the resources, which we pay for, exist to do so.

Posting two motorcycle police to issue tickets to a frazzled mother who leaves her car for one minute in a newly-painted white zone, previously a green zone, while she walks her kindergartener across a busy street is one instance that I witnessed firsthand.

Another was a woman ticketed for starting through the crosswalk on Westlake Boulevard because the crossing guard with his charge had not quite stepped onto the curb on the other side of the street.

The Sheriff noted that the deputies have discretion to ticket or not to ticket in such cases. Perhaps that discretion could be exercised a little more often. Ron Suppa Westlake Village