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People routinely say there are ticket quotas and others say,
"show me proof or it dosen't exist".
Well, here's your proof and as you read pay particular attention to Virginia.
Could we be headed in that direction??
Excuse the fonts, sometimes I screw it up.
Traffic Fines and Enforcement Practices Bring New Meaning to Highway Robbery - Column/Csaba Csere - The Steering Column/C/D Staff/Columns/Features/Car and Driver - Car And Driver (http://www.caranddriver.com/features/columns/c_d_staff/csaba_csere_the_steering_column/traffic_fines_and_enforcement_practices_bring_new_ meaning_to_highway_robbery_column - broken link)
their are loads of places admittedly using tickets as a source of revenue. My wife got a speeding ticket and they admitted that it was probably not valid but offered a plea to a slightly more expensive parking violation to avoid the hassle (and guarantee no points).
then elsewhere she got pulled over where she actually was speeding and they let her off with a warning so maybe it balances out?
Well, here's an interesting little spin- but it concerns California, not Michigan- my daughter, who was 21 at the time, was crossing the street to get to her bus stop, as she doesn't drive- as she got across, without benefit of a crosswalk (which was way down at the other end of a rather long, city block...), she was stopped by a police officer, who gave her a jaywalking ticket- as he grabbed her arm, he yelled to his partner, "Hey! I got another one!"---$175, plus fees.
Well, here's an interesting little spin- but it concerns California, not Michigan- my daughter, who was 21 at the time, was crossing the street to get to her bus stop, as she doesn't drive- as she got across, without benefit of a crosswalk (which was way down at the other end of a rather long, city block...), she was stopped by a police officer, who gave her a jaywalking ticket- as he grabbed her arm, he yelled to his partner, "Hey! I got another one!"---$175, plus fees.
Do you live in Los Angeles County? LA has been giving out those tickets for years. Since it is hard to find crosswalks downtown in some areas, they get to hand them out like candy on Halloween. Great fund raiser.
I wish that they woudl allow charities to ticket J-walkers for funding. THen the J-walker could write off the fine as a tax free donation!
The cops should be out writing more tickets to all the jackass drivers there are out there.
Too bad they can't write tickets for being stupid.
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