ASK a Traffic COP Replay for September 24, 2025

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Episode Recorded: September 24th, 2025

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Episode Transcript

(00:01):
What's going on? Happy Wednesday.
It's 10:00. Do you know where your drivers
are at? I mean, seriously, do you know
who's driving your car right now?
That seems to be one of the issues surrounding the automatic
well speed enforcement program. Sometimes it's not me driving my
car and I get a ticket and it's just not fair.

(00:21):
Who? Who?
Be careful who you loan your shit to.
What did I say that I said that?Seriously, be careful who you
loan your stuff to. It's one of those mornings.
I'm having a high energy morning.
It is a good day here. Lots of exciting stuff coming.
I am happy to announce some stuff in a little bit.
But I wanted to also tell you that we had an amazing, amazing

(00:43):
episode last night. We were live for two hours and I
say we because I was joined on screen by Brian Max.
He is a race car driver, reviewer of cars.
He's a journalist. He's a guy who likes cigars.
He's a good guy, and he was in the show for the night and we
had a good time. So much so that we spoke for two
hours. We talked about speed cameras,

(01:05):
we talked about different stuff and things.
If you want to check it out, it's available online on
YouTube. You can listen to it in replay
now if you are just jumping in for the first time, my name is
Shawn Shapiro. I'm a former police officer who
talks about Traffic Safety, traffic law and police stuff.
And the goal is to teach your stuff and things so you don't
break the law without realizing it.

(01:26):
Listen, if you choose to break the law, that's on you.
And truthfully, if you break thelaw because you didn't know the
law, that's also on you because you're responsible regardless if
you're learned or not. I want to help bring you up that
educational level so that when you make mistakes, they're
mistakes and not just ignorance.Yeah, sounds terrible.
Sounds rough. It's what it is.

(01:46):
Hockey Dad says happy hump day. How you doing?
It is hump day. We're on the we're on the the
top of the mountain on the way down towards the weekend.
We're halfway there, folks. Decent says hello.
It says he's on the road, but not currently though he's he's
parked. Devnish says hello.
Toronto DJ Chris Reynolds says, I'm a tow truck driver out here

(02:09):
in Niagara, a Holliman area. I see so much on the road.
I have no doubt that you see everything and you see the
consequences of people's poor decision making.
When you actually have to go pull them out of the ditch.
There's I'm sure we could talk alot about that, he said.
He goes on to say he sees a lot of distracted driving because
it's an epidemic. People can't put their stuff
down. They are tied to those devices.

(02:29):
They absolutely can't control themselves anymore.
That's why a $615 ticket and demerit points and suspensions
are what people need to motivatethem.
And what we're really missing isthe the enforcement to really
cement that because people know it's against the law.
And every red light I go to, I see people on the road.
Actually, almost every Tesla I see is an autopilot with someone

(02:53):
typing away. And if you didn't know already,
let me bring you up to speed. It is illegal for the driver of
a Tesla who is an autopilot fullself drive to be on their phone.
It's still illegal. They're not in an autonomous
vehicle. They're in a vehicle that is
running beta software and they are the supervisor.
You has to be ready to take control of that vehicle at any
time. I recently borrowed a Tesla

(03:13):
cyber truck for an overnight test drive and I was really
shocked. It was uncomfortable to be in a
car that was driving itself at least for 5 minutes.
And then I got really used to itand you want to start doing
other things. So I understand the draw
thinking that the computer's gotcha, but there's a lot of
times it doesn't. It did things that were
absolutely incorrect and I had to take over.

(03:35):
But it was only when the computer said, hey, you can't
take your eyes off. And I realized how much it was
watching me. It was creepy.
But the deal is still you're just supervising the car and as
a supervisor, you're responsible.
So you're still driving. I've had lots of people come to
court and say, but I got a ticket for driving the for for
distracted driving, but I wasn'tdriving the car was where were

(03:57):
you sitting? The driver's seat?
If you sat in the passenger passenger seat with the car, go
no, you were driving where We'llget there one day, but we're not
there yet. Anyway, if you got questions
about Traffic Safety, traffic law and police stuff, please,
please, please put them in the chat.
And oh, another thing to, to mention is that last night's
show we made the lines availablekind of sort of.

(04:19):
I don't have a telephone line coming into the show, but I did
have a Zoom link and if anyone emailed the show e-mail address,
I was sending them or willing tosend them an invite to join the
show on screen. Guess what no one took me up on?
I did get someone who wrote in saying, hey, I'm in my pajamas,
otherwise I'd totally join you. So next time, next time it's
going to become a regular thing where guests are welcome.
OK, OK, Akayla Draconis in with greetings and salutations from

(04:45):
malloc. That's the new the new the line,
the new spiel 01 second got to lean down here.
Get my iPad. I forgot to bring it up.
I was in a meeting and that meeting is was was a good one.
I'll have more on that once the press release comes out.
I'm excited to, to share with you the deets, the deets of

(05:05):
well, I'll share them when I canshare them.
Now Brandon comes in and says hello, Sean and all from
Orangeville, having a relaxing day making a fresh batch of
sweet Italian sausages. Sean, there's a batch with your
name on the awesome. We, we, we were supposed to try
and get lunch this week and it didn't happen.
But the week's not over. So maybe let's let's try for
tomorrow. Let's see here.

(05:25):
Akayla says if you DM me a mailing address, I'll we got to
Akayla has been trying to get a hold of me or together with me
for some time. He bought me some cool patches
and we never managed to to connect.
And now he lives in Matic, whichis a little further away.
Wayne says morning Sean. Good morning, Wayne.
Julie Massey says good morning, Sean, good morning to you.

(05:46):
Oh, Brandon quite rightly says no one drives any of my cars
except me. He's got some beautiful machines
in his stable. And I don't, I don't disagree
with you. I, I don't want anyone to drive
my car. There are a select few drivers
that I trust, like my buddy Rob,He can drive whatever he wants.
He doesn't have a motorcycle license, so I wouldn't lend him
the bike. But I I do appreciate that there

(06:08):
are some people that are trustworthy, some people that
are not, and nobody that should drive your beautiful machines.
Cause. Yeah, but and also I they'd be
totally respond, I would give them the bill if they got a
ticket in a car that belonged tome like and and anyone that I
would lend a car to is responsible enough to pay for
it. Moving along, Paul says good

(06:28):
morning, Sean. Hello all.
And oh, Brandon says he can be aguest on the show from Epcot
next week. Done deal.
Let's do it. And oh, Nicholas has a question.
We'll kick it off with his coming in through X whereas
everybody else was coming through YouTube.
Are suicide knobs legal to have on a steering wheel?
Also why is it called a suicide knob?

(06:51):
I you know what? I imagine it's called that
because bad things happened in the past.
They were sort of a requirement as you had non power steering
giant wheels that you were trying to wield with one hand
and possibly still shift. Tractors have them, some large
steering wheel vehicles have them.
You don't need them. They're really a lazy way to
drive in my opinion. I used to think that they were
illegal. I was not correct.

(07:12):
They are legal, although it might be under the
accommodation. Like someone who has one hand,
one arm, one appendage would need one more so than someone
would too. And it also has the ability to
get caught on things if you're letting the wheel spin back into
place. Where that superpower steering
that we have making that knob absolutely useless.
It's kind of like palm steering.But anyway, not illegal under

(07:33):
the HTA that I've been able to find because I've had this
conversation for years and yearsnow.
Lots of people coming in, whichever platform you're on,
please like subscribe, share really would help.
If you're on TikTok, please tap the screen so your fingers go
numb. It brings more people to the
party, more questions to be asked.
And the more questions we get, the more interesting the
conversation gets because they're going to ask something
you never thought to ask about. And that's exciting because if

(07:55):
we only have the same chat, likethere was a period of time when
the only questions I got were what's the law under under glow
and what's the law on tinted windows.
It's amazing how that is kind ofchanged and for the better, I
might add. It is nice to hear that that is
not the the standard one. OK, no press release yet.

(08:18):
I just did a check. I'm looking forward to reading
it. I'm told it's coming out at
10:00 and that's now. So we'll see what happens when I
get the link. Peter Carlock says thank you for
all you did do. Did you did do God bless.
Well, thank you, Peter. I don't know if you're talking
about my career, my life, or speaking about the automated
speed enforcement to the Vaughn City Council, which, you know,
despite my efforts and all thosewho spoke at the meeting was

(08:42):
still cancelled. Because I guess that's the
brakes when it deals with politics.
It's politics. OK, What do do do?
What do you got here? Can you fight a speeding ticket?
Can you fight it? You can fight a speeding ticket
you want you want to. I can fight a speeding ticket.
Speeding tickets are you you have the right to challenge the
court or the officer's evidence.You're allowed because it's an

(09:03):
allegation, right? So anyone charged the allegation
is that you did something wrong.Now you can challenge it doesn't
mean you're going to win. Can I fight a speeding ticket if
I was innocent and if can I fight a speeding ticket for you?
No, I I don't defend people in court.
That's not my game. But it is something that if you
were looking for somebody, I could probably send you in the

(09:23):
right direction, which is probably a good time to mention
that. The magical people.
That's not the button I wanted. Where's the button I wanted?
Do do, do, do, do, do. Where's my labels?
Hang on a second. Where'd it go?
Oh, now I'm annoyed. Try this one.
There we go. Diamond and Diamond Lawyers.
They sponsor the show. They make it all happen.

(09:45):
They believe in safe driving. They believe.
And I'm laughing because becauseI pressed.
No, that's the wrong button. That's the button I pressed.
I'm like, it's me. That's my sticker version.
If you want a sticker, write to me.
I'll send you a sticker. But the.
But Diamond and Diamond are the magical folks who help by
contributing financially to the show.
They want people to be safer if they believe in safe roads.
And education is the best way toget people there.

(10:06):
Yeah, we can hammer people with tickets and yeah, we can build
speed bumps on everywhere and make everybody miserable.
But if we educate people, so if we changed our hearts and minds
to actually have them understandwhat is at stake and what is at
stake for them, not just society, maybe we could do some
better. And I appreciate their support,
along with Barrett Legal and fine folks from different
companies who don't necessarily want to be disclosed.

(10:27):
And we'll see. There's lots of awesome people
who help. All right, let's go.
D Sin says Day 2 of asking to ban front plates.
They're so good, but he said andtheir front plates are so good.
They don't look good. I, I, I admit that they are
suboptimal in the in the looks department.
However, they are double the chance of finding bad people who

(10:49):
are trying to take people against their will.
Cars are being stolen. Like it's just twice the chance
of finding people that need to be found.
And for that reason I support them.
Otherwise it doesn't really makea difference.
Right? Like it's not about cameras
enforcement. It's not about because those
take rear plates anyway. So I appreciate that it makes
your car less look like look less cool and then decent.

(11:11):
Also says it's always those damnTeslas.
Tesla drivers were always my my easy, easy find for a cell phone
ticket because they were almost always almost always on the
phone. I did pull over somebody for it
a long time ago who happened to live across the street from me.
That was uncomfortable conversation.
We still had a conversation OK had to plug phone and stop light

(11:37):
call pulled me over and ticketedme.
I think we had this conversationat a previous live stream.
Or at least you're not alone andthat that has happened a lot.
Sadly, that is a standard excuse.
It may have been legitimately what happened to you.
However, that is really what happens.
When I pulled someone over, I was just checking, moving and
checking the time, changing the music.
Whatever the case may be, if you're holding it, you're using

(11:58):
it. The courts have supported it, so
you can't do that. What you need to do is get in
the habit of plugging your phonein when you're legally parked,
which is the only time you can touch your device.
Save it. Except for if it was mounted in
a stand in the car and you were simply touching it to answer a
call or hang up on a call, whichis allowable.
Case law has supported it. The courts have said one touch
if it's mounted, one touch to answer, one touch to hang up,

(12:20):
and that is it. That is all.
Nothing else. Everything else is use, and for
good reason. It is an amazingly dangerous
thing to be on your phone when you're taking your head eyes
away from the area you're supposed to be focusing on,
which is way off in the distance, and you're focused and
fumbling around in your car. Bad stuff tends to happen, like
crashes. That's what I'm talking about,

(12:40):
OK? Chris Reynolds says.
I do have a question, though. If you're at a party and you are
drinking, can you sleep in your car illegally if you don't have
the keys? If you have the ability to wake
up an hour later while you're still drunk and drive away,
which is what happens to most people, I feel much better.
I'm not drunk anymore. I've slept it off and then the
drive then. So obviously it's not

(13:01):
permissible if you have access to the keys because then you
have the ability to drive, you're in care and control of
the vehicle. So that is a problem.
If your friend had the keys and you had no access to the keys,
you're sleeping in the car and the keys are locked away in a in
a time release safe or somethingto that effect.
You had no access to the house to get it, then yeah, you could
sleep in that car. So it depends 6.7 Owen, I'm

(13:24):
guessing that's the size of his displacement of his engine.
I got a red light camera ticket and the photo lights green.
I got a red light camera ticket and in the photo the lights
green. Really I would love to know more
about that ticket because that sounds very interesting.
How does that happen? And is it possible that there's

(13:46):
multiple frames for that ticket?Is it possible that you know, it
is actually a legit ticket? I mean it if it's green light
and you got a defense, like in my opinion, but it probably says
you were you went over the line like within an eighth of a
second or something. Anyway, fight it.
If it if if you think you've gota defense, fight it.

(14:07):
I'm I'm all for the innocent notbeing charged.
It's the guilty that I think need to learn a lesson.
Brandon says Florida you only have a rear plate.
This is true and I've always kind of been jealous of those
folks and it's a reason to buy acar in Florida seriously more
aerodynamic. That's that's one of the number
one the the plate on the on the front of my car really slows me

(14:27):
down changes my my what's it called miles per gallon Magpies
in the room says traffic circle person on the left has right of
way. If four people are at a four way
stop at the same time, who goes first?
Well, the way it works in in a traffic circle is the person in
the traffic circle has the rightof way.

(14:47):
If you're entering it, you have to yield to them.
It's not about left or right, it's just yield to whoever's
there. And it's one of the reasons I
hate traffic circles. I actually love them if no one's
around. But I find that they are super
dangerous, not because their design and concept, if
implemented, is good, but because people have no idea what
they're doing when they enter them.
It's kind of playing chicken every single time because I see

(15:09):
people racing to that circle andnot realizing that I have the
right of way. So you know we always have that
moment of oh crap who's going todo what or are we going to meet
in the middle? Successfully avoided collision.
Also pedestrians seem seem to get confused very easily.
I had a kid who nearly rolled into my path whilst on AE kick

(15:34):
scooter that he shouldn't have been on in the 1st place because
he was only like 10 years old and you have to be 16 to operate
one but that's another story. In terms of before we stop, it
is who goes first, whoever got there first in.
I've never seen a situation where people truly arrive at a
stop sign at the same time. It's like the what if question
of what ifs. 1st to 1st to arrive, first to drive.

(15:54):
If more than one person was there at the same time, y'all
going to figure it out because the person to your right is that
is who you're going to be givingit to.
Someone's going to go 1st and they'll figure it out.
And all of you waving like this like somebody else should go
just gets annoying. We'll just stick with if you're
approaching it, you think you can get there at the same time,
slow down faster so you get there.
Second, OK, we've got Mattis whosays where are you from?

(16:17):
Just to know because I'm in Quebec and jurisdiction might be
different. I am in Ontario, I'm a former
Toronto police officer and I talk about Ontario law
primarily. However, laws are different
everywhere you go. And I'm glad you mentioned where
you are because if the question is different, we'll look it up
and we'll see how it is for you now.

(16:41):
Oh, OK, Mattis wants to know about motorcycle licenses.
So I couldn't tell you what the process is there.
We can look it up, but I don't know the process.
What is it that you want to knowabout motorcycle licenses?
Let's go there because I am a I am a former motor cop and I've
been riding motorcycles since I was a kid.
Let's see, speed cameras and redlight cameras is a way to steal

(17:01):
money from Canadians that are already struggling.
That's from con with a flag. No, you're wrong.
It's a way of taking people who break the law, punishing them so
they have a not so nice feeling,and then hoping that that sticks
enough into that person's mind that next time they are thinking

(17:25):
about breaking the law, they go,Gee whiz, that sucked last time.
I'm not going to do it again. Or you might need another
lesson. You might need to have to go
through the system one more time, get a ticket and pay the
money and have it sucked even worse because now you double the
loss. And maybe that time, it was the
time was your last and you actually figured out that that

(17:45):
was dumb. But the people who are not
paying for tickets are the people who are lawful because
they're driving properly. They're not getting tickets.
I've never had a speed camera orred light camera ticket because
I drive properly and I follow the law.
So it's not a big deal if they effectively don't exist for me.

(18:06):
And I drive routes that have them everyday.
So if you're getting tickets andyou think someone's out to get
you, you need to, you know, check yourself because you are
just blaming everybody for your bad choices.
Moving along, Mattis says in Quebec, plates for motorcycles
are really damn expensive. Can I get my motorcycle license
in Ontario? So here's how it works.

(18:27):
You know, in in Quebec, you've got license and ownership.
Sorry. You've got ownership and
insurance together. So you're paying for one.
You're getting both. That's my understanding of how
it works. Insurance for motorcycles is
high. It's high here as well.
If you were to get your license in Ontario, you'd have to
convert to a Quebec license whenyou went back home.
Like you, you live there. So getting a license here, when

(18:48):
you go there, you have to apply for a Quebec license.
You'd have to convert everythingfirst of all to Ontario and then
you have to convert it back. So it wouldn't make any sense.
Plus to be a licensed operator driving a Quebec car in Ontario,
the car should be like licensed.You have to have license your,
your, your motorcycle here, which means you have to pay for
insurance here, which would alsobe incredibly expensive.

(19:09):
So you're not you're not winninganything.
Also, have you seen how deep thesnow is in Montreal?
Not exactly motorcycle weather ever.
Isn't it snowing now in Montreal?
Just saying. OK, let's go back to.
But seriously, if you got more questions about motorcycle stuff
and things, feel free to reach out.
We can do a deep dive as to to more by way of e-mail.

(19:30):
OK Johnny Michael Nguyen sent a gift.
Thank you so much. Any monies received by the show
goes to better traffic. It's the Canadian Organization
for better Traffic Safety and Education Inc.
It's not-for-profit. It's the the thing that I I
started when I left the Toronto police over a year ago.
And the goal is to make roads safer everywhere through
education programs like this one.

(19:52):
Let's see here the the MIAT FAM 2 point O says.
Do you think that ticketing standards of police in the field
should match the new photo radarstandard?
Do you think the ticketing standards of police in the field
should match? Do you mean that police should
give a ticket for 10 over starting at 10 over and not give
tickets for people going less? Well, first of all, it's not a

(20:15):
10 over. It's not the threshold for
cameras tends to be a percentageover the posted speed limit.
It's not one over. Everyone making these claims,
I've yet to see anyone substantiate that with proof.
I've never seen a ticket shown to me for a 1 kilometer over
ticket because I don't believe they exist.
Now, municipalities can set themto whatever they want, and if
they did set it to one over, they'd be in their rights to do
so because it's against the law,But I don't think it's

(20:35):
reasonable. Just putting that out there, if
you're doing the 10%, let's say over that I think these things
are set to and I can say think because although I've
interviewed the folks who run the programs, they've said we
don't disclose how much it is. Because if we told you that it's
10K over, you would just do 9K over and that's reasonable.
Don't freaking speed and you won't get a ticket.

(20:56):
Now in terms of police, police have a different level of, of,
of triage that they have to employ.
Not only do they have to decide when they think personally it's
reasonable to lay the ticket, they also have realized that
when they pull you over for for 10 over, the guy doing 20 over
speeds by and you can only pull over one person at a time

(21:16):
reasonably, so they tend to waitfor the person doing 15 or 20.
That's not because it's OK to do10, it's because there's so many
people going faster that they have to triage and take the most
serious offenses first. That works into the favor of the
people who want to speed cameras.
Dole it out evenly. Everyone who hits the threshold
gets the ticket. And I'd like that to be the

(21:37):
situation everywhere. I want every road and highway
and St. and whatever title you want to put on it to have a
camera. Every red light to have a
camera, every stop sign to have a camera.
Because I watch people break thelaw constantly and forever and I
miss the ability to hand out that ticket and hold them
accountable. It's not because I I like
punishing people. I like safe roads.

(21:57):
I want my kids to be able to go to school safely.
And this morning was a great example.
I just shot a video of it beforeand I was going to post it, but
I ran out of time. I was walking my kids to school,
as I do every day. And as we approach the crosswalk
where a crossing guard was present holding their lollipop,
that's what I call the stop sign.
Well, a driver let their kid outof the car and directly in front

(22:18):
of them was the crossing guard wearing that nice green vest and
holding their lollipop. And they started to drive
through the intersection. You can't trust the average
driver because the average driver sucks.
Their skill level is such that they should never have been
licensed in the 1st place and orthey're paying attention to
what's happening in their future.
What am I going to do at work? Where am I going to go shopping?

(22:38):
What's the next movie? Whatever my podcast is so
interesting, whatever it is, they're not focused on the road
and that is problematic. We need to increase the
standards and we talked about that a lot last night.
We need to increase the driving standards.
We need to make it harder to geta driver's license, not easier.
And we should be licensing anything that's on the road, E
bikes included. That's just me.

(22:59):
That's my two cents. Akayla sent me a dad joke.
Thank you, Akayla, if you are someone who knows some good dad
jokes, please throw them into the comments.
I would love to share them. It's just a thing we do at the
end of the show. Nicholas wants me to define
legally park. Earlier I said don't touch your
phone unless you're legally parked.
And he says he he he finds parking lots to check.

(23:23):
Sorry, he says I use find parking lots to check my phone.
I do not trust pulling it to theside of the road to park to
check my phone. So legally parked is putting it
in a place where you can stop the car, get out and leave it
and not get a ticket. Now I'm not saying you have to
pay for parking to be there to stop your car.
I mean you're in a place that legally permits you to stop.
Can't be in a stopping zone, can't be in a standing zone.

(23:43):
That's what I'm saying when I say legally parked.
It does not mean stopping at a red light and putting it in
park. The P on your shift knob does
not equate to legal parking, butI I commend you my friend for
pulling over and finding a safe and legal space to touch your
phone. OK, I must hydrate.

(24:05):
Oh, in terms of sleeping in yourcar, the question was what if
your friend took the spark plugsout so you could you sleep in
the car? It ain't going nowhere.
If the car was disabled and you would no longer have the ability
to start the vehicle and move it, I think you'd have a
legitimate defense. And if you were loaded and could
put all your spark plugs in spark plugs back.
I think you're a talented mechanically inclined

(24:25):
individual, which which is not asuggestion that you should just
remove your own because anyway, moving on.
I I think that's a creative way.If you truly had a disabled
vehicle, a conviction is something that would not be
registered, I think could not beregistered.
Let's move along R3. I don't know how to ready twin

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one. I think that's what we're
saying. So I have an old motorcycle and
it's being advised to register it as an antique.
What are the pros and cons? Antique motorcycles?
Truly antiques that qualify get either free plates or cheaper
plates and qualify for antique insurance, which means it's only
for occasional use. If you are going to do that,
know that you have a mileage Max.
It's only meant for ice cream runs, not for commuter vehicles.

(25:09):
So if it's truly antique and kept in that status, it's meant
for occasional use. That could be the advantage.
Oh, some guy double O 6 says in the daytime do you have to have
running lights on? They're called daytime running
lights because they're meant foruse in the daytime.

(25:30):
Daytime running lights are thereso you can be visible in the
day. It's more so than you need
actual headlights at night headlight.
The daytime running lights are actually low powered high beams
and they, they they project, they're more visible.
Do you have to have them? Can you get a ticket for not
having them? No.
So if you disabled them, you wouldn't get a ticket.

(25:51):
You couldn't certify a vehicle without them.
That's a requirement. It's it.
But if they're manufactured withthem, you're supposed to have
them on. And yeah, they're there to be
visible in the day. That's why they call them
daytime running lights. OK, do do, do.
What do we got here? Toronto 47 says hey, please
don't misinform the community ifyou're no longer a cop.

(26:15):
OPP staff Sergeant here. OK.
OPP staff Sergeant here. I don't misinform.
If you actually look where it says former police officer on
the screen in front of you, it says former police officer.
Ask a traffic cop is the show title.
I am not a police officer anymore.
Never have I made that claim. If you look at any of my
information on all of my social media accounts, I clearly state

(26:37):
that I'm a former police officerlike I do right under my name
beneath my head floating in thisscene.
So no, not misinforming people, not impersonating, but thank you
for your concern. OK, moving along.
Not a firefighter sent some gifts.
Thank you and Tracy is commenting scrolling through and

(27:02):
someone says so X cop. Who said that DM says so X cop
Yes former cop Canada. Alberta only requires replace.
Many places do. Many people clearly only need
replace but Ontario was smart. The Ontario Chiefs of police
were questioned as to whether ornot it was a good idea to get

(27:24):
rid of the front plate because the premier Ford right away said
you are not, you are not or he was going to say he was not
going to have front plates anymore.
He's going to get rid of them when he came in.
And that didn't happen because he asked the trusted people at,
you know, his his base, the chiefs of police Association,
and they said, clearly we're notgoing to get rid of them or we

(27:46):
shouldn't get rid of them because they double the chances
of locating and identifying vehicles And not a firefighter
says, I entered a roundabout in two in 2016 and was stuck there
driving in circles for three years.
I, like I said, not a fan of roundabouts.
Actually, I I like them in smallcommunities where it is
absolutely faster than stopping and going, but it run risks.

(28:07):
Hockey dad says, what's the difference between oh, oh, oh,
oh, here we go. It's a dad joke.
I'm going to flag it for For Lauder.
For Lauder. Here we go.
Hang on a second. OK, flagging the dad joke.
Here we go. Hockey Dad and Oh Hockey Dad

(28:29):
says in terms of the high beam, low beam business, he even
recommends having your low beam light on all the time, makes you
more visible from the front and the rear.
Absolutely, because daytime running lights are only the
front lights. The rear lights only come on
when your full headlight system is activated.
And that's good. That is good.

(28:52):
OK, my eye is bugging me. OK moving on.
Matt says I thought you weren't doing it anymore.
Oh wait, first let's go back bot.
Anyone with a name bot really. OK, says it's a cash grab.
And we're talking about automated enforcement, I'm

(29:13):
assuming. But you're wrong, Matt's.
And in fact, it's funny because the premier is saying it's a
cash grab, but the the Association of Chiefs of Police
has come out and saying, no, we support them.
So, yeah, shout out to the OACP.We're on the same team for that
one. And then Matt says, I thought
you were not doing this anymore.So when I left the policing, I

(29:34):
left the keys to the castle and everything to the Toronto police
to do it. They didn't do it.
And there was obviously a need. I was getting a lot of messages
saying you should do this. So I started doing it for fun
while they were transitioning. And then I said, you know what,
we got it. We got to keep this going.
This is important. And my goal going back to the
staff Sergeant who says that I shouldn't misrepresent, which I
don't, is that my goal was to bethe host to the show and bring

(29:55):
on police officers to answer thequestions.
But I have not found police officers who are willing to
speak or knowledgeable enough onthe topic to speak on it in an
impromptu setting like I do. So OPP Staff Sergeant, if you'd
like to join the show, please let me know.
Send me Adm. If you go to ask a traffic
cop.ca, you can actually see a link where there is a link.
You'll find a link that says police that wants to connect and

(30:18):
be on the show. If you want to do some collabs,
if you want to do stuff together, send me Adm I'll
happily bring you on the show. You can answer these questions,
OK? Khan says.
Oh, Khan, who was talking earlier about the taking money
from honest people in terms of the automated enforcement, Khan
says, I know this isn't about traffic, but what do you think

(30:39):
about Canadians or Canada's castle law can't harm intruders.
Well, you're, you're, you're wrong.
You can harm intruders, but you're responsible for anything
you do above and beyond what is considered reasonable.
And the problem is and what whatgovernments the Conservative
Party leader Pierre Poliev wantsto do is he wants to he wants to
specify that you are justified to do what you got to do as

(31:04):
opposed to be questioned and have a lawn a long drawn out
criminal process to exonerate you for doing what you should be
able to do. In other words, you can use as
much force as necessary, according to the Criminal Code
of Canada to defend yourself, your life or the life of
another. You can you can use as much
force as necessary to prevent yourself from being injured

(31:27):
within reason. So if a guy slaps you in the
face and you beat them to a pulp, that's not reasonable.
You know, it's not, it's not theappropriate amount of force.
You went too far. If if the guy shouts at you and
you were to use a Pew Pew, that's not OK.
But you would think that that that someone breaking into your

(31:47):
house in the middle of the nightis there to do you harm.
And with the new concept that they're proposing or hopefully
proposing officially, well, maybe then you would be able to
shoot bad guys because that seems reasonable.
But anyway, I'm just a former cop.
I should remind everybody constantly and forever and we'll

(32:07):
move on. I thought it was enough on the
screen and in the introduction, but people are tuning in all the
time, so they don't know. Riddle says I need a job at TPS.
You should apply. In fact, let's look at the jobs
that are currently posted on tps.ca because I, while not a
current police officer, do thinkthey're the best organization to

(32:27):
work for. And I honestly, from the bottom
of my heart, love these guys. If you if you want a job in
policing, you should check them out.
Where's my camera? Why isn't there here?
Let's put it back on. There we go.
No, it's not on. Here we go.
Let's switch it around. That's what I wanted.
OK, Press this button. Move me around.

(32:47):
No, I want this one. We'll do this one.
The settings need to be chattered.
All right, here we go. So if we go to
policeconstableobviouslytps.ca/careers,that will bring you to the place
and then put it on screen, then you can scroll through and see
what the opportunities are. Police special constable,
parking enforcement officer, these are the big jobs.
These are the ones that we're hiring most often for along with

(33:08):
communications operator. If you're someone who works for
the OBP or another police service and wants to come to the
best police service in the world, go to lateral hire here.
If you want to volunteer, go to auxiliary officer.
But let's go under Police constable.
You can get all the information that you ever wanted to know and
the big old button for apply. Now if you want to see how I
started, I actually started as an auxiliary officer then and

(33:28):
became a special constable, thena supervisor and a Sergeant and
then became a police constable, trading 2 uniforms in for one.
But everyone's got different things they want to do in life.
Now maybe you want to answer thethe phone and dispatch police
officers. These are the unsung heroes.
People don't realize how important comms operators are
and it's a tough job. And if you want to do something
that involves none of those, maybe you're a tech person,

(33:51):
check out the civilian roles tab.
Now these are the current jobs listed with the Toronto Police
Service. Moves, ads and changes
coordinator. Have no idea what that is.
Facility management, senior project manager, facilities
management, civilian job managerat equity, inclusion and human
rights. Here's one for young people.
2026 Youth and policing initiative after school winter
spring program. This is great if you live in an

(34:13):
area that qualifies and might say that if you live in these
communities, you would be eligible to apply and it is a, a
job you're going to get paid from my understanding.
Let's see here to do this is an after school program.
Maybe it's not the one that theypay you apply.
What do I there's one that's actually the summer 1 and I
think they pay 15 or $16.00 an hour.
Oh no, this one's 1760 an hour. There you go.

(34:34):
It's still, it's still a paid program and you get to learn
about what police officers do Boom, boom, boom.
Let's stop the screen sharing and move along.
OK. But yeah, check them out.
And I'm, I'm giving jabs at OPP.But another amazing service.
Many of my friends have left theToronto Police Service to join
the Ontario Provincial Police. In fact, I was considering it at

(34:55):
one point because it meant getting out of the city and and
moving to beautiful places that you can enjoy a higher quality
of life. And that is important.
You know, I hated driving to Toronto every day as much as I
love Toronto, it was like 3 hours a day commuting and three
hours a day commuting means you have to really enjoy the space

(35:17):
that you are in whilst commuting.
And that's important. We'll, we'll talk more about
that in a, in a little while because, well, I'll mention it
here. I'll mention it because I'm, in
case the press release doesn't come out as planned on time, but
I'm working with SiriusXM. And if you're not familiar with
them, that's satellite radio baby.
And we're talking about reclaiming your your commute,

(35:40):
making it something that you enjoy, you look forward to.
We'll talk more about it later, OK?
Speed bumps will save lives. Speed cameras won't.
Speed cameras target the middle class and poor.
That's riddles. Now riddles.
You said you need a job at TPS and then goes go on to say
something. So I think you were not at all
being honest about your interestin in Traffic Safety or policing

(36:02):
because speed bumps will slow down emergency responders who
are coming to help you, whether it's you needing an ambulance, a
fire truck to attend to put out your fire, or a police officer
coming to help you. Speed bumps are good at slowing
people down at the bump, but they don't actually succeed in
between bumps unless you're talking about 1:00 every three
to six inches, which is not whatyou that's a rumble strip that

(36:24):
hurts your car. I am not a fan of speed bumps.
I am a fan of enforcement. They don't target the middle
class. They target illegal, lawless,
unsafe drivers who choose to break the law instead of
following the simple sign, the most basic of rules.
You get your license and you follow the signs.
If you can't do that, you don't deserve to drive hand in your

(36:45):
card because you are a menace. And that's how I feel.
Ivan Tampa says you're amazing. Well, thank you, Ivan.
I appreciate it. If you are watching and you're
new to the channel, my name is Shawn Shapiro.
I'm a former police officer who talks about Traffic Safety,
traffic law and stuff and things.
So if you got questions, I got answers.
If I don't have answers, we'll figure it out.

(37:05):
But I definitely, I want to hearfrom you.
I'm, I am supported by the most magical of people, diamond and
diamond lawyers and other fine businesses and peoples and
persons who support what I do, which is educating people when
others don't have the time to. The police can only do what they
can do and they can't sit here talking to you for hours at a

(37:28):
time. But I, I enjoy it Now we're
done. We're doing this through better
Traffic Safety and education. It's a not-for-profit
organization I created when I left the police service, and I
do this to give back. The Toronto police was a magical
employer and the policing community is one that I'll
always be a part of, although not a police officer.

(37:49):
What they did there? OK, what do we got here?
Viva says. How about * properly testing the
newcomers to Canada who think Rd. signs are a suggestion?
I think that's unfair. I think that the people who are
newcomers to Canada have to go through a stringent process just
like everybody else. The problem is the process is
not as stringent as you might think.

(38:10):
It is way too easy to become a licensed driver in the province
of Ontario and many other places.
We should be changing to a European model where you have
mandatory driving instruction and testing.
You have staggered systems that only allow you to do certain
types of driving until you hit acertain quality or approval
rating. And I mean that like Ireland,

(38:30):
there's different stages. And yeah, it's not the only
people who I would agree with are getting it too easy as some
people coming from other countries do not have to go
through our testing process if they have a license from their
country. And we have a reciprocal
agreement like the UK, if you come to Canada with AUK license,
you can just trade it. In the United States, you can

(38:51):
just trade in because the laws are similar there.
But maybe maybe we should be looking at it more seriously.
Maybe we should go away with this reciprocal agreement.
But that means that you won't have the benefit of a reciprocal
agreement when you travel or go.So you got to play the game
nicely. And of course, there's also
fraud and and corruption everywhere and every level.
And that's not good. Not good at all.

(39:11):
Corruption bad. Let's see here.
I just saw a message. Oh, OK, that was a different
question. We'll, we'll talk to that after
I got a message from Greg. Greg.
I hear you, man. I'll call you after all right,
let's move on. Tracy's mad.

(39:32):
No. Oh, school bus driver. 100%
agree with you. Amount of drivers who blow stop
signs on the daily. You know what?
The camera laws or the automatedspeed enforcement laws have been
expanded. The laws were modified to
accommodate school bus cameras. If you run a stop sign or the
red lights on a school bus, the technology is there, the rules
are there, the law supports it. You can get a camera ticket.
Unfortunately, not every jurisdiction has implemented

(39:54):
them. I'd love to see them everywhere.
It's been years that's been available, but not every
jurisdiction is doing it, and I don't know why.
Anyone who goes through a stop sign or a passes a school bus
deserves the full weight of the law, and we don't do that.
And I don't think a ticket is enough.
I don't think a cash donation isenough to make it go away.
I think we should be taking licenses.

(40:14):
We at very least it should be registering demerit points.
And I do think we should do thatagainst the registered owner of
the vehicle. And why do I do that?
Because then they will likely tell me who is actually driving
and we can transfer that to the person who's actually
responsible. There's all sorts of problems
with everything. Maybe we should put cameras that
capture the likeness of the driver at the same time.
Or maybe we need RFID technology.

(40:35):
We'll chip you. No, I don't want to chip people.
I'm actually not someone who likes more government.
I like more safety. So sometimes you have to accept
more government to get the safety.
But I'm not someone who who justwho I, I yeah, I'm, I'm not a a
person who wants a nanny state. But sadly, I think we need
better drivers and to hold thoseaccountable.

(40:56):
Herbert Bloom, is it no Blome orBlome?
I, I, I'm OK moving on. We got we got I'm laughing
because I, I, I'm reading into your name and I don't know if I
got it right. OK, I agree with you.
The police have enough things todo than catching speeders.
I think that we have to catch the high end the the speeders
who are really egregious, like the ones that need to be

(41:18):
arrested, that needs to be a police officer, obviously, but
the ones that are just getting away with it because they're not
being caught. Those need the automated
enforcement and I appreciate that.
Let's see here, Artichoke says. Which the which department?
I used to be with Toronto, I'm no longer a police officer.
Better Traffic Safety and Education Inc is a
not-for-profit that I represent on Ask a Traffic Cop.
And of course I am a former cop.What I am looking for, and I

(41:40):
started talking about it earlierin the show when someone
claiming to be a staff Sergeant with the Ontario Provincial
Police said don't misrepresent yourself, you're not a cop
anymore. I'm not a cop.
It says. So on the screen it says former
police officer. So there should be no confusion.
But my goal has always been to bring police officers onto the
show. Unfortunately, due to the
actions of a few officers with the Toronto police, their
ability as a service to join podcasts and live streams was

(42:03):
taken away. And I won't go into more than
that. But yeah, someone said dumb
stuff on camera and ruined it for everybody else.
So the police, although I reallywant them to come in and and be
involved. There's a seat waiting for my
old, my old buddy and and pal, the sarge from traffic services,

(42:24):
the one and only. You know what I'm talking about.
Does anyone know Sergeant Campbell?
If if he were to say Sean, I want to be on the show, I put
him right next to me every single day because that would be
awesome. It would be absolutely awesome.
I miss him a lot that listen, my, my, my friends, my blue
family will always be there. And if any of them want to be on
the show, just let me know. You have an, a login credential

(42:46):
waiting for you. OK, Moving along, Shanice Gibson
says, I hope that person knows impersonating an officer is a
oh, the person who's claiming tobe an officer, they may be an
officer. It's very possible.
No shade if they if they, they, he made me bifocals.
Most people, you know, achievingthe right.
I'm wearing bifocals. I'm just shooting, you know,

(43:07):
stuff his way. But he may not see it.
It's small print. Maybe I need to make it larger.
In all fairness, in fact, in thenight, in the night version of
the Ask a traffic cop, I made that much, much larger.
And maybe I'll increase it goingforward.
Doesn't hurt to be absolutely transparent.
There's nobody trying to hide here.
OK, moving on. Dylan Dozer says opinion on
trucking companies paying drivers to try.

(43:30):
Oh, paying truckers by the load,which makes them drive fast and
reckless. OK, this is actually a really
good topic, Dylan. I'm glad you brought it up.
Here's the deal. And Naurav, you can absolutely
ask a question. Just ask the question because
you asked a question. If you could ask a question,
that was a question. Moving along.
Ask me a question. OK, so Dylan, who wants to know
about trucker trucking companieswho pay by the load Brinks,
They're an armored truck company.

(43:51):
They pay by the run, which meanswhen you're finished, you go
home early. Same money if you take 8 hours
as you do 10 hours. So what happens?
They speed and drive recklessly.I work there.
I know that that's what happens.That's what people do.
There's a lot of pressure there to go fast.
Then you've got, oh, I don't know, Canada Post does the same

(44:11):
thing. They have developed a, a whole
concept of we're going to tell you to be safe, we're going to
tell you that you got to do the lawful thing.
But if you leave, if you get home early, you can, you can go
home early. And I, I have some, some beliefs
as to what's happening. A lot of people I've heard from
saying that, you know, the reason you're not getting your

(44:31):
package delivered, the reason you're not getting your package
instead you're getting a piece of paper saying come pick it up
is because some people aren't even trying to deliver your
package. They're walking to your door,
they're slapping a piece of paper on and they're all pre
form written and then they go back to the station and they go
home early. That's what I'm being told by
insiders from certain places. And the deal is it might be

(44:55):
true, it might not. I think that it's got some legs.
I I got way too many attempts when the camera catches them.
Not package in hand, no attempt for a signature, just a sticker.
So what does that mean? That means I've I've, I've
unofficially officially confirmed that the allegation
made by an employee might be accurate.
Moving along. I, I I don't agree with this

(45:16):
concept of a run. You should get paid for an 8
hour day and if you get back early I think you should be able
to sit on your hands and wait till the end of the day.
Because they are suggesting you go faster and encouraging people
to break the law. Even if it's not their
intention, that's what they're doing unintentionally.
Lodge says. Hey, in small towns roundabouts
work great. They do.

(45:36):
I'd love them but ugly enough. Small towns have well, tend to
have good drivers. Bernhard said.
Sent a couple of dad jokes. Can you send them again because
I missed them? Let me scroll back.
I want to get his dad jokes because he usually has really
good ones but I don't see the dad jokes it if I don't see
them. Try them again.

(45:57):
They may have been flagged depending on what they they
TikTok can sometimes get people thinking that or their AI thinks
it's inappropriate and then doesn't share it anyway.
My name is Shawn Chabra, I'm a former police officer to talk
about Traffic Safety, traffic law, and police stuff.
I am your opinionated traffic guy happy to share my opinions
about stuff and things my knowledge of laws.

(46:18):
If you've got questions, I generally have answers and happy
to share those with you. So you can go to ask a traffic
cop.ca. You can send me voicemail during
the lives. You can, of course, ask
questions in the comments. And if, as long as we have time,
I try and answer them all. Let's see here, Paul.
Paul says cash grab is spelled accountability.

(46:40):
Yeah. OK.
Nicholas wants to know if I everhad a day where you were
supposed to go into work but youfeel like it, but you don't feel
like it. So you give yourself a Ferris
Bueller's Day Off. Be honest.
Have you ever had a mental health day?
I'm sure that's happened. I, you know, I actually loved

(47:00):
going to work. And the only time I didn't go to
work is if I wasn't feeling well.
If I, there was no reason to, todrive to work, to only to be
sick for an hour. And I usually drag my butt in.
But if it was if I was sick enough that I knew I shouldn't
be there, nobody else wants you there.
Oh, here's a good question. The storm games and vlogs says
can I get a ticket for parking the opposite way on the other

(47:21):
side of a residential area? And the answer is, yeah, the
only people who can park contraflow are those who have a
accessibility permit. There is.
That's the only exemption to parking the wrong way on the
street. Tracy says I still have to get
Frank on here. Yes.
Frank and I have chatted looselyabout it.
I'm supposed to go to Arizona and visit him.

(47:41):
I'd love to get Frank on here because he's another.
He's an Arizona traffic man and a hero to many.
He's on the right side of the law.
They're the on the mountain of right as opposed to the volley
of wrong yes, I watch his stream, his stuff.
Let's see here scrolling, scrolling, scrolling.
We got a quote. He says, by the way, good
morning, Sean. Hope you're having an amazing
day so far. How are you enjoying the first

(48:03):
few days of fall? Is it officially fall?
I I I think I thought it was fall for the last like month.
It's it's just it's it was like a light switch went off and
there was no more summer. It just disappeared, but I'm I'm
good with it. We're we're cool.
I like this weather. We got a dad joke from him.

(48:23):
OK, he says Paul Paul says please tell me that the people
that can't read former aren't driving.
We hope that no one is driving while watching this.
That would be not good. Cool.
Got the four jokes a quote. OK, going back to the TikTok.
Good question here. Naurav asked if they can ask a
question but then never asked a question.

(48:43):
So we'll, we'll just keep on moving.
By the way, if you're watching on TikTok, please tap the screen
so your fingers go numb. I see that there's a bunch of
people in. We got we got you and we love
you and we love to bring more here.
So by tapping the screen and showing likes, it brings more
people to the party. And more people means more
questions and questions, oddly enough.
Well, you make it interesting. OK, moving along, can we drive

(49:09):
in Qatar with a Canadian license?
That is up to the the authorities there.
I, I, I could not tell you if they accept those, but I imagine
you'd at very least need an international driving permit
issued by the, the, the CAA. They're the body that issues
them here. Really.
It's a translation card. Let's see here.
Tracy says, yes, Theresa, we read that already.

(49:30):
Carl Freeman, what's going on? My friend, He says, I seen your
brother pulled somebody on the four O 7.
My brother I have, I have a twin.
I OK, I don't actually have a twin, but I have someone who
looks a lot like me. And I, I very often would get
messages saying, hey, I just sawyou on a police motorcycle drive
by because I used to be motor squad and he's in the motor
squad. Peter, what's going on?
My brother and yeah, he, we lookthe same on the helmet.

(49:53):
In fact, I, I just saw a picture.
I wonder if I can find this. I just had someone send me a
picture of him on a motorcycle and I I had I I questioned
myself because I thought it was me, but he's on a Beamer and
I've never ridden the Beamer. And let me see if I can pull up
that photo because I think it's hilarious to do.
Here it is. I'm going to send this over.

(50:13):
Maybe I can I share it any otherway?
No, let's just do this. I'll just put it up to the
camera. I honest to God looked at it.
I had to. I had to look twice because I I
thought it was me. Like he's like that looks just
like me. Is that AI?
Yeah, I thought maybe it was an old photo until I realized I

(50:34):
never rode the Beamers. I don't like the Beamers.
They don't. They don't fit nice for me
Anyway, moving along, Deep Friedsays do electric scooters and
bike lanes have to stop for carsturning right at the
intersection? Well, first of all, electric
scooters, if they're lawful, arebicycles.
If they're and bike lanes and cycle tracks are different
things, you have to know which one because they're electric

(50:56):
scooters that look like motorcycles aren't allowed to be
in those only paddle acts the, the, the cycle tracks, that is.
So it really is interesting. So, yeah, if you're driving in a
bicycle lane and someone's turning, they're there.
First, you need to yield. You need to avoid collision.
You cannot barrel through now. They have to yield to you.

(51:18):
If you're there past the point of no return, they should not be
turning into your path. So it's a little bit of this and
a little bit of that, and you have to, you know, live and
coexist. But if you're approaching an
intersection and the vehicle's already turning in front of you,
you must attempt to avoid collision.
If you're traveling so fast thatyou can't, you're probably not
an E bike at all. You're probably driving a
modified E bike, which means you're really driving a

(51:39):
motorcycle that's electric powered and not legal for the
road. And that is a thing.
Tracy supports speed bumps in school zones.
I support anything to keep kids safe.
Honestly. I will say this, and I've said
it a number of times over the last couple of days.
A buddy of mine, a retired Sergeant, has speed bumps.
Well, had because he moved, had speed bumps in front of his home
and a speed camera. And guess what?

(51:59):
The speed camera kept going off in front of the Catholic school
in between the speed bumps. So Riddle me this, Like, how
does that work? How does speed bumps prevent the
camera from going off? How do they slow people?
No honest key people slow down because of signs.
Honest people slow down because of camera cameras being present.
Honest people don't break into your house because there's locks
on the door. But crooks and violators do

(52:21):
whatever the hell they want and then they need tickets or arrest
or whatever comes with the offense that took place.
Moving on. Oh, Dylan Dozer says opinion on
dump truck companies paying by the load, which makes them more
reckless and unsafe. I will say this, I can't speak
about by the load because, you know, I've addressed that
already. But there is a situation where

(52:43):
buddy driving the truck, it's loaded by the crane operator.
And my understanding is they're very often overloading them
because they want to get more value.
That's the customer loading them.
The truck is being hired to moveit and they're paying by this,
by the flat. And the issue is that the truck
is then overloaded. We pull them over the police, I
should say, pull them over, weigh them and they're
overweight and then they're taken off the road and the

(53:05):
driver doesn't know what the weight is.
So really what should happen is there should be a weight system,
a scale in the truck and they should reject, but they're also
pressured that if they say anything that they're going to
get in trouble and by their bosses.
There's a there's a big problem on our roads with commercial
vehicles. And I thank the commercial motor
vehicle inspectors, whether it be the MTO or CVSA guys for the
local police services. They do great work and more

(53:26):
needs to be done to to really hold these drivers accountable.
The large system we talked aboutroads that don't have proper
paint and signage. Yeah, if if you see a road that
isn't properly maintained, call 311.
If you're in the GTA, report it.It needs to be maintained.
You need to have that loose markings.
However, how much are we talkingabout here?
Is it lines? Is it what is it missing because

(53:49):
it doesn't completely exonerate the driver.
You know it's faded. So they do 80 No, there's reason
it has to be reasonable, but they should be maintained.
And if you look back in the video that Maury from 92 was it
92.5 tags me. Damn it, Maury.
And he was about a signage because the construction company
went in, put a no no right turn sign and then there was already

(54:12):
a no left turn or no go straightsign.
So it was a dead end. Sometimes people make mistakes.
And sure enough, I went there and then I called and sent
photos to 311 and got it resolved right away.
Yeah, people got to make the call.
Canuck Canoe cat, something says.
What are your thoughts on the bogus gun ban?
It's a bogus gun ban. It's absolutely ludicrous.

(54:33):
I don't buy into it. I don't support it that the
police chiefs don't support it. The people who are using illegal
guns are illegal. Well, they're illegal guns.
They're not the lawful gun owners in Canada.
They're not the people who have licenses and went through
background checks and and you know, courses.
It's thugs. It's criminals.
They are who you have to spend your time on.

(54:54):
But this government doesn't understand logic at all, sadly.
So they're wasting your money togo after guns that have no risk.
It's the public because they're locked away and safes are taken
to the range or gone hunting. But if they're look mean, the
Dum Dums want it and they are Dum Dums.

(55:14):
Just listen to them speak. It's terrible.
My God. I yeah, don't get me started on
that, please, because I'm so I'mso against this, this gun ban
thing And and logical people everywhere are moving along.
Barry says. Good morning, Sean.
Good to see you live again. Good to see you, Barry.
It's been a while, Purple GTI says, do you get paid for this?
No, no. Is there a potential that one

(55:37):
day they'll it'll be it'll be money in the organization enough
to pay me to do it? Maybe one day, but no, we're,
we're, we're, I'm bootstrapping this with my own money and the
assistance of people like I'll put their logo on the screen,
Diamond, diamond lawyers becausethey are helping to cover the
cost. The software costs, the
bandwidth costs, everything costs money.

(55:58):
A computer or a piece of equipment breaks.
I got to buy a new one. Everything.
I am way in the hole on this, but they're helping me keep it
going and I appreciate them and their contributions to the, the
mission of making roads safer. There's always room for more.
So if you want to help support, you can go to ask a traffic
cop.ca. There's a PayPal link there.
You can go to voice over cop at.Well, it's actually not voice

(56:19):
over cop at, but it's buying me a coffee.
You can go to the voice over copaccount and buy me a coffee.
The money goes to the not-for-profit better traffic.
It is not for me. It's just to keep the channel
going. My time.
I, I went from five days a week down to two days a week.
I do Tuesday nights and on Wednesdays and I'm just keeping
my, my, myself doing this because I care about it.
I care about you. I care about the safety of all

(56:40):
and I enjoy doing this. So while it would be great to
say I'm making millions, I'm notgetting paid.
I do do a lot of stuff as a consultant and, and, and that's
where I get I make money, which is not this OK, The great banana
says I think every highway should be like the Autobahn.

(57:01):
I miss driving back home. The Autobahn is a great place.
I've driven the Autobahn myself and I will say that it's great.
However, strict enforcement withcameras in the populated areas
where the speed limits are 80 to130, strict regulations about
how you act Lane, lane. What's the word I'm looking for?
I said it last night on a live stream.

(57:21):
But but but but etiquette you'rein the right lane doing the
right thing. So if you're not passing, you
stay to the right. You get out to the pass, you get
back in the right. People do horrible, horrible
driving here. They just don't know what
they're doing. So if you made an autobahn here,
I think it would it would it would explode.
Thank you for the gifts from O Liam followed.
Thanks for the follow. Johnny Mitchell says Sergeant

(57:44):
Campbell and sends hearts best supplements says can't lie.
Traffic cops are the worst. The worst at what?
I think we're the best. We're the best at writing
tickets, making roads safer, investigating collisions,
keeping people safe. We might be the worst at letting
you go and ignoring your bad behavior, like you need to frame
your statement better. Tracy says Sarge was great.

(58:05):
I miss him. We got to get together for
lunch, Barry says. Can members of the OPP
participate in your podcast? Absolutely.
OPP members used to drive in to Toronto Police traffic Services
to join me on the podcast. I would love to have any member
of any service anywhere in Ontario or Canada for that
matter. I've had members of Vancouver
join me when I was Vancouver RCMP Traffic Unit, North

(58:28):
Vancouver. I think officially I, I, I must
say that I need to do more outreach to try and get them in.
But based on what's been going in Toronto and Toronto was
really the police service, I wanted to have most involved
because they're my brothers and sisters.
Yeah. But because of the, like I said,
the actions of a couple of people who ruined it for
everybody, they can't be in podcasts right now.
So it's, it's quite sad. I've talked to the chief about

(58:49):
it a number of times. The chief is very supportive of
of what I do and would have loved for me to keep doing it as
a police officer with Toronto. But, you know, there wasn't in
the carts. I had to.
I had family stuff going on thatthat required me to leave.
OK, Tim says UPS, FedEx purely yes.
If you're talking about people who go fast, O wants to know how

(59:10):
car thefts are still so bad because there's criminals and we
police can't prevent criminality.
People think the police will protect their stuff.
They don't. They don't protect the stuff in
your driveway. They don't sit on guard at your
corner of your street. They respond to calls for
service when someone's actively doing something and then they
hope to get there in time to deal with it.

(59:31):
But very often what they're there to do is write the
reports. The insurance company can
replace your stuff. It's not the answer you want,
but that's the reality of the game.
There's not enough police to go around.
So car companies need to step upthe game and make it, well,
better. They need to make it better.
They need to go after the fine folks who are trying to break
into your cars. I say fine folks very, very

(59:53):
loosely. Maybe.
Maybe scumbag is the most appropriate Kirk criminals.
Like I was talking about this. Over over lunch a couple days
ago. People don't realize just how
impactful car theft is. You lose your car, Yes, you have
insurance. You don't get a car in
replacement and and no impact. You now have to go buy a new car
at today's interest rates after only getting back the value of

(01:00:16):
your vehicle. It's not cool.
It it impacts people all over the place, these people.
This needs to end, but it needs to be because we've stopped the
criminality of the large organizations that are moving
these vehicles. And then it's not always theft
for resale. It can be theft for further
criminality. Someone you know, steals your
Honda Civic so they can go steala Porsche or break into a house.

(01:00:37):
They need a getaway car. Like it's just all around bad.
We need to put criminals in jailand leave them there.
Stop this catch and release baloney that we've been dealing
with under the crime bills of this government.
Yeah. Any change?
OK, construction and two way traffic between what Jeff's JF

(01:00:58):
Seguin says, construction and two way traffic between cones
and several kilometers long. And whereas your vehicles come,
you get out of the way, you pullover if you, if you like.
What'll usually happen is one side will pull over, the other
side will clear. If there's nowhere to go, you
keep going to get out of the wayand you pull over at the most
first available time. Those are unique situations.
If it's really nowhere to go, then straight's the only place

(01:01:19):
to go because you can't just stop in the middle.
We talked about that. Carl says you're doing a great
job. Thank you Carl.
I appreciate it. Hope you're doing well Hug Samir
and and channa Taba. We've got What do you what is
this? Liam says.
Do you think regular class 5 driver, just 4 Wheelers need
more? I think everyone needs to have

(01:01:40):
more training yes. Why do cops pull over for going
three over? But people that run you guys,
let them go. I don't think you're being
accurate. I've never pulled someone over
for three kilometers over. Even in a 30 zone.
I've never pulled someone over for 30 kilometers and over.
I don't know anybody who would. So DM416 says I saw you on CP24.
I've been all over the news. I've been on CP24, CTV, I've

(01:02:03):
been on the radio. I was on Zoomer yesterday.
I've been on the the Jerry Agar show.
Where else was? I've been on a bunch of
different places recently. I was on a Waterloo radio
station last week. Awesome, awesome attention on
the whole electronic speed enforcement.
A lot of people love to hate them.
Chef Fowles, thanks for the gifts.
Your contributions to the BetterTraffic Safety Education plan

(01:02:26):
are appreciated. DM 416 wants to know if E
scooters are really banned now because they see the people
riding them. They've been.
They were never allowed in Toronto.
Electric kick scooters have never been permitted in the city
of Toronto. We did not opt in to the program
and as a result you could be ticketed for driving them in
Toronto. Doesn't stop the 90 million
people. We use them everyday in Toronto.
It's gross. But they're the truth is there's

(01:02:49):
not enough police to enforce it.So they're just doing what they
want with Saga Beach Girls says hi, what's going on with Saga
Beach Girl? We've got Liam says truckers can
reject the load if it's not properly loaded.
Yes, they can and yes, they should.
It's not that it's not properly loaded.
They're overloaded, which is also improper, I suppose, but
they're also being pressured by their employers not to complain

(01:03:09):
because they probably would not be allowed to or accepted back
at work the next day. They're they're in a really
sticky situation. I, I Pagani is being, I think,
racist in his statements. We're going to ignore Pagani on
Instagram. Now Let's see here, some trucks
have scales. I'm a commercial driver up north

(01:03:31):
and barrier. Really.
Oh that's interesting. I didn't know that trucks had
built in scales. That is good.
And if they if the truck companyhas a strict policy to follow
what those scales say and make sure they're safe and legal, I
commend them for that. Lot of shady people in the
business stuff. Shanice says put it on YouTube,
maybe make some money. This is on YouTube.

(01:03:52):
No, no, we're totally, if we're talking about Shanice, if we're
talking about this show, we are currently broadcasting on
LinkedIn, Instagram, we're on YouTube, we're on X and TikTok
all at the same time. So we're absolutely, absolutely
sharing it everywhere. But we don't make any money
there either. I would love to get to the point
where we're making any kind of ad revenue because it would just
be helping to fund and continue doing what we do.

(01:04:13):
I'd love to get to the point where I could do this five days
a week, hire a staff for editingand, and create more content,
but I don't have the money to support hiring a staff because
that is absolutely. I've had some people reach out
about volunteering. I, I don't think I have the
capacity to take on a volunteer right now, but I, I would love
to soon. We'll see.
We'll see what we can do moving along.

(01:04:35):
Boom. Oh, OK.
Liam's OK. They're talking about the
trucks. We're going to move on from
trucks. We've talked a lot about that.
OK, Jean or Jean says. I think it's Jean, correct me if

(01:04:59):
I'm wrong. Your car gets hit, you ask the
officer for the other info, should you have to wait for it?
Your car gets hit, you ask the officer for the other driver's
info. Should you have to wait for it?
Well, what happens is I can onlyspeak to what happens in Toronto
when I was there. So if I was investigating a
collision, even if I was referring it to a collision
reporting center, I would give you a contact sheet, an involved

(01:05:21):
persons sheet that just has the information I got from both
people. Put it on to one place and then
give it to you. You're entitled to it.
If it's collision Reporting center, well, then you got to
wait until both people report atthe time of the collision.
By the time that you were talking to the other driver, you
need to exchange information with them.
They have required by a lot to provide it to you.
If they don't, then you need to call the police and have them

(01:05:43):
come and well, motivate them to do what is legally required
because they can't leave withoutsharing that information.
Driver's license, ownership insurance has to be exchanged.
We got Adam wants, Adam wants toknow if police in Toronto ever
give parking tickets or is that left to parking enforcement?

(01:06:03):
Police officers can write the tickets.
Generally, however, we're, we'renot so good at it and we don't,
we don't I, I, I think I gave a dozen of them when I was doing a
bicycle lane enforcement, but I generally chose to write them
under the HDA, which were more impactful against the drivers
than the parking tickets were. But yeah, we have parking

(01:06:24):
enforcement officers. They're, they're always looking
for something to do. So we give them all the work we
can. Dispatcher says happy New year.
Yes, hug some Maya and shout outto you too.
Ashley says if the chance came up, would you go back to working
as an officer? It's not a chance.
I could go back if I could meet the physical requirements.
I was injured in a motorcycle collision on duty in 2018.

(01:06:45):
Never really got back to the road.
Well, never got back to the roadbecause I was injured and I
still suffer from residual pain from that.
So I've thought about it becausemy heart is, is, is, is I, I
miss it. I miss being a cop.
I do not so much. I love what I'm doing too right
now, but I do miss my life as a police officer.
And I will say this, I don't miss the commute 3 hours

(01:07:08):
downtown every day and back. I don't miss waking up at 4:00
in the morning every day. So I was on a straight day
situation, but it could be different.
I love night shift. When I used to do that, if I
went back, I'd be back on the road and I think that would be
awesome. But right now I I think I've got
some good work to be done with what I'm doing.
I'm helping people and businesses with their social
media as a consultant. I also consult in the space of

(01:07:29):
Traffic Safety. I'm an advocate for safety.
So I'm still doing work, I'm just not being paid by police.
And that allows me to say and dowhat I want.
Like I would never have been able to go in front of Vaughn
City Council and tell them what I told them.
As a, as a member of the community, as a civilian, as a,
as a traffic space Traffic Safety specialist who isn't a

(01:07:50):
police officer anymore, I can say whatever the hell I want.
And that's good because I can now go into a position and hold
people accountable. Whereas if I was a police
officer, I'd be told to sit downand shut up and not get
political. I can be political now.
I don't want to be a politician and I can be political.
I get to say what I want and I have to tell people the truth.
And that's really important. That freedom to speak is is

(01:08:11):
important. All right, Officers, was there
still waiting on the other driver for info for.
Oh, yeah. Follow up with the officer.
Say you need a copy, a copy of the involved parties.
You can have your insurance company.
If they gave you a report number, you can call the
insurance company. They will pay for the report,
but they should have provided you the other driver's
information. You should not be waiting a

(01:08:32):
week. It should have happened at the
scene before you left. Ashley says that's amazing.
We all love your lives. I've learnt a lot and I had no a
lot that I had no idea about. Awesome.
I'm glad that you got value. I I had someone last night say
I'm new to the country. I found your channel.
I'm so happy. It's it's I've I've I've had
people who have become police officers because of watching me
online. I'm becoming inspired to become

(01:08:53):
a police officer. I'm so happy that my, my, my
buddy, my Brazilian fan that is now with the Peel Regional
Police after watching the show and, and going from cabinet
maker to a police officer, it's amazing.
I, I, I know I'm doing good stuff here.
I know I'm helping a lot of people and that makes me feel
good. When I was a police officer, I
got to do it because I was injured.
But when I was on the road, I was hopping, I was stopping one
person at a time. Here I'm educating thousands and

(01:09:15):
although now I know there's 40 people in the live stream on
TikTok and and people on other platforms watching as well.
But I used to have 40,000 peoplein a live stream, 5000 people
rain or shine. Even after the shift in the
algorithm, 16,000 people was a regular live on TikTok.
There are millions of people whoknow me and I and I, and I'm not

(01:09:35):
saying that to brag. I'm saying that I meet people
all the time saying you're that guy.
I went to the Toronto Timepiece show.
That's a watch show that featured all sorts of amazing
micro brands of watches. I'm a big timepiece guy.
I'm a contributor for Watch DNA,which is a website that teaches
people about watches. Anyway, I went there and like
people are coming up to me like you, you're the guy that used to

(01:09:56):
be a cop. You, you're the guy, the traffic
guy. And it was just awesome,
absolutely awesome to to meet people who who have in some way
interacted with the content thatI've created in a positive way.
So I'm thankful for my opportunity to give back.
That's what I'm thankful for. All right, I am going to get out
of here. I, I, I've gone over an hour by
12 minutes. It's not the end of the world,
but, and I never got the press release.
So I'll have to do a, a release on that later.

(01:10:18):
Let's see here. Just double check to make sure
it isn't here because I'll read it if I got it.
I read it, but it is that in relation to my involvement with
SiriusXM Radio. Really excited to announce that
and talk to you about claiming reclaiming your commute.
Yeah, If you're a commuter, you're going to like this.
We'll talk soon. Back next Tuesday night for a

(01:10:39):
live stream to do this all again, 9:00 PM Eastern Time.
Be there, and you can join the show.
Instructions on how to do that will be in the show.
It's a Zoom link. Yeah.
And we'll see you have a wonderful day.
Drive safe, drive sober and parklegally, or Aaron Urquhart will
come after you. Take care.