This is VERY different than what your friend is doing. Your friend is reporting these drivers to law enforcement and allowing them to deal with it, and/or allowing your friend to appear before the people he's accusing in court for the purposes of issuing and enforcing a citation in regards to a violation of the law ensuring due process. This app reports directly to the DMV and insurance companies according to the article.

Your friend is doing it right, the app is doing it wrong.

Very good point, that is a very big difference, and I hereby withdraw my support for this app.

so your friend ties up the 911 line over some petty bullshit like someone doing +5mph? Just fyi, the cops hate your friend, and I'd bet that they've never acted on a single one of his tips

"ties up the 911 line"

Where did he say he's using the emergency line?

"the cops hate your friend"

you don't know this obviously

"I'd bet that they've never acted on a single one of his tips"

even if that were true, the cyclist is going to feel better so long as the probability of them acting sometime is positive. Think revenge lottery ticket. Humans don't process small probabilities well you might as well use it to feel better after getting cut off in the bike lane.

-because the sort of guy to report people as often as was implied in the original post, is the sort of guy who uses 911.

-actually I do, my friend is with the NYPD, and they hate people like that since they waste their time, they can't give you a ticket unless they've seen you break the law

-he said/she said doesn't apply to traffic tickets, so no, there is literally 0 chance of any positive result

If there are several witnesses to a felonious driving offence such as dangerous driving, the cops will most definitely track you down and charge you.

that's an old wives tale, ever called the cops yourself? I did.

Was involved in a hit and run, reported the guy right away, took them 2 hours to show up.

Had a tree fall on power lines, took them and the fire department 40 minutes to show up...granted there were no sparks flying. But still.

Had 2 accidents, first time had to wait for 4 hours for them to show up. The second time 30 minutes.

The point being, is that it takes a while for cops to actually act, and by the time they do, the guy you wasted precious time reporting, already left the jurisdiction

I've called the cops 3 times, and they've never taken more than 5 minutes to show up.

The cops have a specific extension and process for traffic complaints. http://www.ottawapolice.ca/en/servingottawa/sectionsandunits...

The cops have charged people my friend has reported.