Illinois outlaws "ticket quotas" for police. But it's still OK to make them do a certain number of arrests and traffic stops, so what the fuck.
They'll still go on. Even more pernicious, in my view, are the little towns that have 400 yards of Interstate running though them, so they set speed traps and generate a significant percentage of the town's budget from them. Maybe if it all went into a county or state-wide pool, some of this shit would stop. For using tickets as a revenue generator for local government does not promote respect for either the law or the police.
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You mean like Hampton, Florida?
ReplyDeleteThey narrowly avoided being shutdown ( dissolving the entire corrupt town ), but there are lots still out there.
Linndale, OH is a notorious one. They operate a speed trap on the highway between Cleveland-Hopkins airport and downtown.
ReplyDeleteYou could be talking about the entire state of NJ. Except it is done by their State Police.
ReplyDeleteBack in '05, they quit writing tickets, for near half a year, IIRC. It hit the news that most of the small towns were going broke, without their local share of that ticket revenue. Something near 80% of their "budget" money was/is from that!
That state is so screwed up...