Motorcycle cops – Believe its county. There are traffic traps all over the city along the major highways and Major access roads but these are not necessarily for speeding….since they are posted at 55 or 65 anyways. These cops are stopping anyone and I believe they are using a system of profiles. These roads are well travelled by tourists going to and from Joshua Tree National Monument. There is a high likihood that a ticket written here will not be contested. I have seen a half dozen cases where the cop went directly from writting one ticket to chase down the very next car and write another – and there was no speeding or even a considered observation of the vehicle involved. In fact of all the stops I have witnessed more than likely it was a senior citizen. I am speculating but I think the profiling may include motorcycles, more expensive autos, seniors. These traps seem to have appeared suddenly when the state was starting to gear up to layoff state employees and I believe in response the local traffic cops went into business for themselves …to justify their existence… be a profit center. Once a bailout was delivered via a new state budget and from the fed the absolutely daily constant presence of cops all over town always writing tickets seemed to slow down. But its still a lucrative business that they have had a taste of and now probably can’t let go. This is small backwater town midwestern hick stuff right out of the 1950s, and very typical of southern california corruption … very little enforcement of laws, frauds, cons, schemes are rampant and have always been, non responsive to actual calls and complaints but always where the money is. I am pretty sure this intersection is the centerpoint of a 3/4 mile radius of activity for one of these operations.