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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
Didn’t quote enough of it
Was objecting to the claim that the only thing the police can catch are speeders
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Ah that makes sense, I was just skimming. Yeah, that can be frustrating when it seems that police put more energy into speeding than anything else, but there's reasons for it.
1. There's a dedicated traffic unit who are attacking road violations and responding to accidents regardless of what else is going on in the city, except for extreme circumstances.
2. The traffic unit and traffic tickets handed out account for a huge portion of the police budget, which then allows them to fund other departments to work on other areas of crime.
So unless you want to see a significant bump in your taxes then you need to accept that catching speeders is actually producing revenue for cops to fight other crimes, not taking away from it.