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| Subject: Careful drivers leave US poLICE strapped for cash Fri Sep 15, 2017 11:37 pm | |
| Police in Michigan are facing a $3 million deficit in funding for road patrol services. Officials blame the lack of revenue on the decline in the number of traffic tickets issued to motorists, which appears to be a national trend.
“The two are intertwined,” Blaine Koops of the Michigan Sheriffs’ Association told Capital News Service, commenting on last week’s report by Michigan’s Office of Highway Safety. “The number of citations equals the amount revenue that’s generated.” The report found citations issued per deputy had decreased from 582 in 2006 to 444 in 2016, representing a 23 percent drop and a loss of nearly $3 million to the secondary road patrol program during the past 10 years. Prior to 1992, a state grant general fund paid for secondary road patrols. A partial allocation from the fund paid for the patrols up until 2003. Since then, the patrol was paid for from traffic citations revenue. Koops speculated that several factors could have influenced the decline. More compassionate officers who consider their job as more community-based, and recognizing they are ticketing the people they live among was one of the possibilities he listed. Another was the changing traffic environment, with divided freeways make it harder for officers to catch violators.
https://www.rt.com/usa/403504-careful-drivers-leave-police-strapped/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=RSS _________________ Anarcho-Capitalist, AnCaps Forum, Ancapolis, OZschwitz Contraband “The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime.”-- Max Stirner "Remember: Evil exists because good men don't kill the government officials committing it." -- Kurt Hofmann |
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