If it were a matter of ticketing innocent people, I'd say 'criminals who will never be charged with any crime'.
What we have here is a bit more nuanced. Pull a guy over for speeding or running a stop sign, then 'do him a favor' by writing it up as a non moving violation (seat belt), and collect grant money for your department for writing a seat belt ticket. In which case the worst offenders here would be the ones using state taxpayer dollars to bribe cops into writing seat belt tickets, and 2nd worse would be command officers having their cops game the grant system, 3rd worse would be the cops embezzling the grant money on behalf of their departments.
Notice the only ones out of a job in this scam are the bottom level scammers, the upper levels go untouched.
If it were a matter of ticketing innocent people, I'd say 'criminals who will never be charged with any crime'.
ReplyDeleteWhat we have here is a bit more nuanced.
Pull a guy over for speeding or running a stop sign, then 'do him a favor' by writing it up as a non moving violation (seat belt), and collect grant money for your department for writing a seat belt ticket. In which case the worst offenders here would be the ones using state taxpayer dollars to bribe cops into writing seat belt tickets, and 2nd worse would be command officers having their cops game the grant system, 3rd worse would be the cops embezzling the grant money on behalf of their departments.
Notice the only ones out of a job in this scam are the bottom level scammers, the upper levels go untouched.