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Originally Posted by G50
How dumb is that? A private company dictating what law enforcement has to do? A police dept being contractually obligated to issue a certain # of tickets, thus giving up their ability to use their discretion and judgment in issuing tickets? There is no way that is constitutional.
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This is not the way it works here, but my town might be an exception. There is no contractually obligated number of tickets here and the police do review them to the best of my knowledge. For awhile (and they may still do it), they were publishing the number of actual tickets issued vs the number of "violations" in our local paper. It was running less than 50%. It comes out today - I'll check.
Heck, I was driving to work one morning when the roads were slick (slicker than I realized, come to find out). The light turned yellow/red and I was not able to stop in time and basically slid right thru the intersection (and the camera caught me). I didn't get a ticket.
What
has happened (regardless of the constitionality of all of this) is these intersections are now much safer. I drive through them every day and they are much better now than they were.