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Originally Posted by freedogger
Really? What if we didn't have to pay for as many police officers manning speed traps, those who service multinova cameras, squad cars, police pensions, administration, traffic courts and so on. I am not saying get rid of speed enforcement completely, just scale it down to what the rest of Canada does.
Or how about this, what if we paid for the same amount of police officers but they spent their time doing things more useful to society? Like fighting crime, not trying to meet their ticket quotas.
Its the Hawthorne effect, or what you measure is what you get. Classic management FAIL. Number of tickets issued per officer is very easy to track and compare against other officers and month over month etc. What is hard to measure are crimes prevented, officer's taking the time to educate a young driver with a stern warning and so on.
Are Calgary drivers really that many times more speedier than Vancouver or Toronto? Are Calgary roads that much safer than Vancouver or Toronto? To both questions at best maybe just a little bit, but not to the degree that the number of tickets shows. It seems obvious that our Police force is not spending its time on the right activities.
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You do realize Calgary's crime rate has been decreasing steadily and Calgary had one of its lowest murder rates in the past decade last year?
Bash cops for giving tickets, sure, but you imply that crime is rampant and is out of control and that cops are intentionally ticketing people and letting crime continue because they need to give someone a ticket. That's not even close to being true.