Police issue 500 traffic tickets on Leeward Coast in 5 hours

How does a cop on a bike catch up with a speeding car?

wow..alot of people without insurance and no license..that's very scary..good job hpd..now only if we could catch more drunks on the road

For HPD: EXCELLENT! Keep up the Great Work.

HPD seems to target the Westside.

My thoughts: people can't afford it. No insurance, no license, no registration, no safety check, no baby car seats - all cost money, which unfortunately may of our citizens do not have. Hawaii is expensive.

that's where i would start

Unlike the mainland, the crazy thing about Hawaii law, is that even after they stop the driver without license, insurance, registration, whatever, they don't impound the vehicle. THEY still let them drive off. Then they don't show up in court, and just keep driving illegally for months, years. I had a young lady hit my car and then drive off as witnesses tried to flag her down and stop her, and then even though we all had the description of the driver, vehicle, and license plate number, because the vehicle was registered to a cancelled PO Box and HPD could not reach her by the registration contact info by postal mail, could not locate the insurance company they are with, so either they don't have insurance, or recently came from out of state. HPD detective said this is a common problem that they would like to see changed in the legislature. Detective said all they could do was put a stopper on the registration so that next year, when they try to register the vehicle, they will be notified. Thats it? Wow. After leaving the scene of a crime? Failure to render aid? And if they don't bother getting insurance, would they bother registering? We may never find them! Meanwhile, I am stuck with a broken car that I cannot drive safely. Why do crooks get the upper hand in our land? :(

Speed traps. I hope a good judge will toss most of those citations out. Speed limit is suppose to be set based on periodic review of the 85 percentile speed as the "reasonable speed." The Hawaii State DOT is too lazy and incompetent all these years to make any periodic review to adjust the speed limit. Worse yet, the traffic office knowingly ignores and set speed limit contrary to the car speed data that their planning office continuously collect with their traffic data stations.

60 NO INSURANCE......time to IMPOUND cars with out the proper insurance and take the drivers license away.

Leeward coast = gold mine for HPD. Easy money. Unfortunately thugs with no insurance probably have no money to pay the fines.

All the more reason for rail to go further out toward the Waianae coast.

60 for no-fault insurance, 46 for driving without a license..... It's like having a lake full of fish. You pay to catch the fish but have to let it go so others can pay to catch fish. If all these no insurance or driver license people had their car taken away, how will the state make money off of them later. You keep letting them go make some money off them then catch them another day or until they crash and kill themselves or somebody else then the scrape dealer makes some money.

Good! I didn't know the HPD had traffic division. Next get the intersections--should get 500 in ONE hour!!!

What happened, did the HPD cycle patrol finally realize Honolulu was bigger than the H1 Viaduct going to the airport from the west? It's good that they caught that many violators, but what took them so long. Now focus on the east side because there are a number of speeders when H1 east ends. But beware, you don't want to ticket the lawyers and doctors since they can give you and earful and write complaints about you.

Hope vehicles were confiscated and towed until drivers could provide license and insurance. Nah! That only happens on the mainland where there are consequences and laws are enforced. Auwe!

When is the legislature finally going to address the issue of driving without insurance. It is estimated that some 40% of Oahu driver do not have auto insurance. Get hit by an uninsured driver and try to collect. You could also be sued by an uninsured driver. Solution? Any vehicle being driven without proper verifiable insurance will be impounded and towed on the spot. The way the law stands now, if your caught driving without auto insurance you're ticketed then allowed to drive off and face traffic court. Many never show up in court and those that do get these charges often get dismissed. Go sit in traffic court to hear sympathetic judges dismiss these cases. It's a joke. BTW, no changes to the current law regarding uninsured motorists is being proposed at this year's legislative session.

Boy, I thought there was a shortage of police. But if there are enough to write 500 traffic tickets in five hours, with 269 of the tickets for "miscellaneous violations," there clearly is no shortage of police by ANY reasonable yardstick.

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They probably could have cited a few hundred more for expired safety stickers and outdated registration stickers. I seem them on moving vehicles every time I drive anywhere.

"269 for miscellaneous violations" is notice to the public saying we will issue a ticket to anyone. You think your a law abiding citizen? We'll find something, we are the police.

That's great HPD but about time. Lots and lots of speeding on the leeward side. Hope you guys do this on other areas of the island and do it more often.

60 NO FAULT, 46 W/ NO LICENSE...THAT'S SOME SERIOUS VIOLATIONS. Forget the 269 "misc" ; minor stuff compared to these !!!!! Have you folks seen those commercials for that Law Group Levitt, Yamane, and Soldner. That Yamane guy in one commercial is telling people to take our insurance in case you get in an accident w/ a person who doesn't have No Fault. Hell that person who doesn't have No Fault should be taken to the cleaners. Why should a law abiding citizen have to take out that type of insurance.

500 in 5 hours? That's 100 per hour. Almost one and a half tickets per minute. How do they do that? It must be that the same driver may have had multiple offenses. Perhaps the person without insurance, also didn't have a license. I wish the reporter would have explained this. But then again, its the headline that counts. This is how most people get their get their "facts".

You never hear about these crack downs in Hawaii Kai

Time to move to Kam Highway in Kaaawa. Cha Ching cha ching.

Guess its time for taxes uh? or HPD need some vaction money? its really funny that they will cite you anywhere for anything but when they speed by you on the side of the freeway for no reason or textting from thier squad car.... Thats ok.

Great now come out to the North Shore so we can get rid of all those cell-phone-driiving scoflaws.

These cars should have been impounded on the spot. What if these jokers crash into another vehicle down the street, kills or cause injuries? What good is a citiation if the car is still on the road without insurance? Maybe the city should watch parking wars on A&E and see how the state of philly does it. Believe me it works!!

Idiots. What a waste of time. HPD complains about manpower but they have time to waste doing tickets. When they have limited resources at work, they need to focus where the risk is. Just as any business would. They're not accomplishing anything for society by tagging speeders. For the most part, these are the regular tax-paying, law abiding people. They are only being tagged because they exceed an unreasonable speed limit. NOBODY drives any speed limit. You can always tag speeders because everyone speeds. That's why when we appoach a speed trap, EVERYBODY slams on their brakes. So we all get tickets, what have you accomplished? You haven't rid society of any crooks. You have only antagonized us. The motorbike cops are very arrogant about it, too. The city doesn't have money. But wat a complete waste of money to fund a motorbike division. Put this manpower to good use. Use the police force to help us, not antagonize us.

Perhaps if HPD did this kind of enforcement on a regular basis there would have been less. Doing this once every few years does not look like enforcement, and lets people know they can usually get away with breaking the law.

This is great news. Keep up the work to clear more traffic off the roads and to get these people on busses!

I concur.

The crack down is probably due to the deaths of two traffic police officers. The mentallity and behavior that leads to careless and negligent behavior will change.

The crack down is probably due to the deaths of two traffic police officers. The mentallity and behavior that leads to careless and negligent behavior will change.

The crackdown is probably due to the deaths of two traffic police officers. The mentallity and behavior that leads to careless and negligent behavior will change.

how they going pay the fine? no mo insurance, no mo license, NO CAN

"269 for miscellaneous violations" i can understand tickets for no insurance and no license etc. but the 269 was just a money grab by HPD. they do it all the time in downtown, ticketing J-walkers on Hotel street by HPU during lunch hour. Ive seen them ticket people who walk diagonally through the crosswalk, saying they need to be completely in the crosswalk. on King St in downtown officers hide in doorways of businesses hiding from cars and popping out when there is a red light, walking around the stopped car looking for viloations. its a joke, HPD is in the business of collecting money not safety or protection.

When Rail construction closes the traffic flow to one lane in and one lane out; it will slow everybody down. See, Rail is beneficial in so many ways. All joking aside, how does our state laws allow someone to get a ticket for not having insurance and just drive away. Liability of C&C can be argued in civil court if someone gets into any accident that provides damages and compensation, because of the irresponsibility of the process. Citations are part of public record. Just a thought. :) Imagine if the legislature actually wanted to address this issue. Imagine if a car was impounded if stopped and cited without proof of insurance. That would take a lot of cars off the road. Yeah, I know, it makes to much common sense.

What is the point of ticketing anyone when the city doesn't pursue the fines? The more interesting story is of the thousands of tickets that are issued every year, how much of the total fines are collected? Like some of the other comments, just impound the cars on the spot if they have no insurance, expired registration or safety check. Then, in order to get the car out of impound, they have to show proof of insurance & a renewed registration with 10 days to get a safety check after getting the car out. Like some people said, if you can't afford to buy insurance or register the car, catch the bus.

Looking ahead to the future this will no longer be a problem because the Rail will solve everything. You won't need a car, you won't need insurance, and you won't need a driver's license because you'll be riding a bus from and to the Leeward side to the Raill Kapolei Station and reading the newspaper standing up on your 20 minute 20 station stop ride to Ala Moana Shopping Center. What's the State going to do in the future with the revenue shortfall from the drastic reduction in the citations and fines?

HPD Solo Bikes and even Patrol Cars, you're welcome ( encouraged ) to come over to Kailua and enforce the traffic laws anytime. Used to see the Bikes on Hamahua and even sometimes patrol cars but that was years ago. HPD Come on Down!

I think HPD could easily double or triple the amount of speeding tickets on my street alone in 5 hours. I live on Waialua Beach Road Raceway.

Our thanks to the HPD and their service

Everyone saying they no more money to pay for insurance, registration, safety check? Then no drive. Cops should have impounded and then auctioned off cars that people cannot pay there fines. Or, give em less on there next EBT card. Simple solutions, No more money, no can drive catch the bus..

60 for no-fault and 46 for no drivers license. That's at least 106 cars off the road. Add a few more miscellaneous for no current registration and expired safety check. Were the tow trucks following the cops to tow these vehicles away? Wow, the C and C collects the fines, the tow company makes money and the rail gains more ridership. Good job HPD!

269 for miscellaneous violations - Does this mean violations for expired license plates / safety checks too. They should check vehicles with out of state licenses. It is amazing how many are driving around, with EXPIRED out of state plates and no safety check. Good job to the Police Dept. They should do these unannounced patrols in all other areas. Especially in between Downtown through Kahala.

Didn't have time to read all the comments but for the guy who thinks that only 1 solobike will chase a speeding car, think again. There's many more bikes and patrol vehicles in the area and a runner will have no chance of getting away. 1 vs many is a losing situation.... GREAT JOB HPD AND KEEP IT UP!

Wow, that's a lot of writing in 5 hours and a lot of court time for the offices. I think they get overtime to appear in court.

Chief Kealoha, good things happen when you put your mind to it. This should have happened a long time ago. We can only hope you will do this more often and target other areas of Oahu as well.

Chief Kealoha, good things happen when you put your mind to it. This should have happened a long time ago. We can only hope you will do this more often and target other areas of Oahu as well.

please continue this diligent work...our roads are unsafe.

Nice job, HPD. Nice job. Those 60 without insurance is a nice catch. And 80 for speeding and 2 for excessive speeding is also a nice catch. But I wonder how much over the speed limit those 80 were issued citations. One over the limit? 2, 3,4, 5, 6, 7. 8, 9, or 10? And those 45 driving without a license is a superb catch. Let us all give the HPD a round of applause for a superb job and just hope the HPD will do such an excellent job all year round.

Nice job HPD. But why just a special event? Why isn't this done all the time?

Get a license, buy the insurance, buckle up, safeguard your child and your self and put the cell phone down! Oh, and when you crash into somebody else, you are supposed to stop and see if they are Ok-not flee the scene.

I wonder what kind of results would it be if HPD did the same ticketing in east oahu (hawaii kai, Niu valley) why is it always the west side that gets this kind of attention? What is the message being sent? for that matter why dont they (HPD) do this in all the districts so it gives us a better idea on what really is happening.

Shouldn't the Police be seizing the cars for excessive speeding, driving without a license, and driving without insurance?

Nice to see a lot of seldom used User Names instead of the usual suspects. We need more people commenting and sharing their opinion.

Just commented yesterday in Jay Fidell's Think Tech column about getting tickets on the mainland because of my sloppy driving. Especially yellow lights which is a hard habit to break. Here in Oahu it means speed up. But mainland cops don't see it that way.

They need to raise speed limits and then enforce them. 95% of people don't follow the speed limits so it becomes a judgment call on the part of both the driver and the officer as to how fast is too fast. Sometimes an officer will issue a ticket for 10 mph over and other times not. Yet it would be crazy if everyone started driving the speed limit all the time. On Hickam AFB, if you're going 1 mph over the speed limit, you'll get a ticket. There's no question in a driver's mind about how fast he can drive. Raise the speed limits to reasonable levels and then enforce them.

No insurance...tow it. No registration...tow it. What's the problem? I know it's cheaper to get a ticket than to get insurance. They have to change that. If you don't care that you or your kid flies through the windshield it's up to you to wear or not wear a seat belt. But it affects the rest of us that follow the law. But of course you obviously only care about YOURSELF. This world is too much about ME.

I can't believe that they let people go who have NO LICENSE AND NO INSURANCE. Is that so they can get into a accident and the person they hit gets nothing. What a joke. Take the car away by tow truck and lock up the driver. Even a dog needs a license to walk on a leach around the block or you get a fine from the Human Society and you have to pay. And yet if someone complains about the noise they make in your YARD - and your pet has on license they fine you. Home owers need Hurricane Insurance now also - you have no choice. I can't understand driving a motor vechile on the highway - you just get a ticket. What a joke. Way to go Hawaii. Taking on cell phones is worst than ever that I have see. Tinted windows is a big joke also

They should do this more often. They would bring in more revenue to help offset their cost and make our highways safer. I see so many drivers speeding and weaving through traffic just improve their commute time (which, by the way, is not much at the expense of the safety of others). It should be regular thing where they patrol the highways and streets. Their presence with their marked and unmarked cars will greatly deter speeders.

where the aloha

Bravo Zulu to HPD Way to go

Great job HPD. Too many bikers dying out there.

Just had lunch in Chinatown and watched over a half-dozen HPD officers writing tickets for pedestrians jaywalking. It appeared to be like shooting fish in a barrel.

Ny hat's off to the Honolulu Police Department on the Leeward Coast. I wish the Kaneohe Police would cite the speeders on Keaahala Road. This is a 25 mph zone but most cars speed down this road. Thank you for our Policemen who make our community a safer place to live. Mahalo!!

Okay cops I hope you include all other areas on Oahu in your ticketing party. And while you are at it, please ticket yourselfs for not making signals when you turn, talking on your cell phone, speeding even when your blue light is off and other infractions. The police enforce and live the laws as they see fit. Poor examples.

Bottom line is that there is very little accountability for any of these violations. Look at how many are driving without no fault insurance and no drivers license. They will not show up for court and continue to drive without no fault or a license. Who cares? Just tear up the ticket and continue on your way...........insanity continues.

The only problem here is that this is NEWS. Those guys should be giving out 500-1000 tickets every 5 hours everyday year round.

Leeward O`ahu has one main road. Between Kapolei and Nanakuli it's built for speeds way over 45 MPH. The speed limit is a joke, I see no danger in driving 60 between the those two locations. I like all the violations except the one's for speeding.

no need to read such a short story! the title says it ALL! anyone who reads the title can use his/her own closure to draw a reasonably meaningful conclusion. 'nuff said!

... and the poor from the Westside just got poorer. How's about concentrating on the East next week, eh? That's where the money is.

When someone drives without insurance their actions are saying that they have nothing to lose. They are saying, "if I kill or injure someone through my reckless actions, I have no property or assets for you to confiscate, I have nothing to protect me or you, I have no future in my life, I have no family who depend on me. The only thing you can do to me is take away my freedom for a short period of time and I can do the time. People with this reckless and irresponsible mentallity are a menace to society and should be taken off the road as soon as possible.

When someone drives without insurance their actions are saying that they have nothing to lose. They are saying, "if I kill or injure someone through my reckless actions, I have no property or assets for you to confiscate, I have nothing to protect me or you, I have no future in my life, I have no family who depend on me. The only thing you can do to me is take away my freedom for a short period of time and I can do the time. People with this reckless and irresponsible mentallity are a menace to society and should be taken off the road as soon as possible.