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Originally Posted by JohnnyB
What bothers me in particular is that there is a tremendous emphasis placed on traffic policing that is profitable for the police department (not individual officers), but which is not proportional to the security of Calgarians. It's a totally screwed up system that allows the police department to profit from enforcing fines. Talk about a conflict of interest.
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The Department doesn't get the money either, it goes into the city's general revenues.
There is no direct benefit to the CPC to issue more tickets, their budget is still set by the city regardless of how many tickets they right.
And from an old Marketplace story:
http://www.cbc.ca/consumers/market/files/cars/tickets/
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