https://www.overlawyered.com/2014/02/short-yellow-light/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Fri, 07 Feb 2014 20:52:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.overlawyered.com/2014/02/short-yellow-light/comment-page-1/#comment-267424 Fri, 07 Feb 2014 20:52:52 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=43877#comment-267424 traffic fines are a major source of income for police agencies around the world, and for the governments they represent (at any level).
In more than a few places police have a quota system, with performance reviews of both entire departments and individual officers being dependent on generated income.
In such a system there’s of course no incentive whatsoever to not do things like this (and in case of speed traps, not set them up deliberately to record higher than actual speeds).

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