Yes it is absolutely ridiculous! Being originally from the Northeast, Connecticut, where 50 to 60 percent of the drivers exceed the posted speed limits of 55/65 (depending on location) on the freeways and parkways, Connecticut state police would usually give you a break. They expected people to go at least ten miles an hour over the limit, even in Newtown, Connecticut, where, I must admit, many of the yuppies drove pretty crazy on town roads the where there were houses and driveways backing out onto the roads; Newtown being very hilly, these roads were mostly rural. That said, plus the fact that over enforcement of the speed limit here in Las Cruces just creates more problems, due to paranoid drivers driving in the left lane and doing the speed limit when they should pull over the right and allow those who want to go slightly faster to pass. Another thing that's absolutely ridiculous in this idiot city (one full of mostly-conservative, blue-collar workers, those who maybe have a high school education at best and are of low income; that, and retirees) is the hospital speed zones. What a joke! You have everybody slamming on the brakes to slow down to twenty-five for a hospital, NOT a school zone; speak of which, New Mexico school zones are like fifteen miles per hour. Even when there isn't one of these motorcycle cops present, which is always possible, you have these retired crossing guards who literally have "radar" in their brain! Believe me, they would point the finger at you and shake it as if you committed some kind of cardinal sin like murder, pardon the expression (I'm an atheist and don't believe in sky fairies).