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Originally Posted by jayswin
Police organizations are in the business of creating revenue to feed their budget to sustain themselves. You have $900k/mth in officers focusing on 10-20km's speeding over the limit that doesn't have much affect on safety generating millions in revenue or $900k/mth focusing on distracted driving that is waaay more difficult to find, ticket and most importantly hold up in court raking in a small fraction of speeding tickets and it's an easy choice for police agencies, regardless of what they say in the media about caring and going after things.
police are about revenue generating first and safety second as it's self sustaining, but they can't say the quiet part loud
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I’d prefer the current model. It’s either property taxes up and given to police budgets or the people breaking laws can pay for the increased risk.
Seems to make sense to me.