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In Illinois, money from speeding tickets written by state troopers got placed into the general fund. A few years ago, the legislature leaders quietly asked the state troopers to provide more revenue for the state. They complied with massive "speeding crackdowns". You'd see one trooper on a bridge with laser, and as many as a dozen waiting on a downramp to mete out "justice". I almost got hit by one doing triple digit speeds on a downramp trying to catch a guy doing maybe 10 over.

A few years after that, the legislature cut the state police budget, but still (quietly) asked for even more tickets. There has been a noticeable lack of speed traps on interstates since then. I basically haven't seen a speeding ticket given out on an Interstate since maybe 2011.

Back in Bloomington, the local paper ran an article in 2013 that the local PD had only written about 300 speeding tickets a year for the past several years, down from about 2,000 a month in the late 2000's. The number of reckless and drunk driving tickets had increased during this period. Suddenly, guidelines for promotion (quotas) were reinstated, the PD was writing 2,000 speeding tickets a month again, and the number of drunk/reckless driving tickets decreased.