Re:U.S. Files Criminal Charges Against Theranos’s Elizabeth ...
by dragonwriter on Saturday June 16, 2018 @10:18AM
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> Compliance is not the goal of speeding tickets
It's the goal of the state policy authorizing them, even if it isn't the goal of the local government issuing them.
Putting people in jail costs money and is hence undesirable, so unless you're drag racing through a school zone or driving drunk/stoned, you're not going to jail.
The view of governments in the US toward traffic enforcement as revenue-source was made clear during the Great Recession. When a lot of folks were struggling with unemployemnt, pay cuts/freezes, etc., and morale was generally in the toilet, local governments began jacking up speeding fines in order to make up for lost tax revenue. And people wonder why the relationship between citizens and LEOs in this country has become so antagonistic.