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Random Calculation and I may be way off: http://www.governing.com/topics/public-justice-safety/gov-ferguson-missouri-court-fines-budget.html http://www.governi
by grogenaut 11y ago
Random Calculation and I may be way off:
http://www.governing.com/topics/public-justice-safety/gov-ferguson-missouri-court-fines-budget.html http://www.governing.com/topics/public-justice-safety/gov-fe...
This is all fines and forfeitures but:
St. Ann $3,609,972 $9,115,012 39.6 13,020
St. John $1,126,763 $3,835,573 29.4 6,517
Ferguson $2,571,190 $12,746,894 20.2 21,203
Bellefontaine Neighbors $749,252 $4,918,310 15.2 10,860
City of Florissant $2,966,669 $23,120,332 12.8 52,158
City of Berkeley $1,047,536 $8,680,716 12.1 8,978
Creve Coeur $1,847,864 $16,365,796 11.3 17,833
Maryland Heights $2,077,689 $22,820,884 9.1 27,472
Jennings $679,787 $7,737,693 8.8 14,712
Hazelwood $1,919,022 $23,809,852 8.1 25,703
Overland $582,292 $8,695,835 6.7 16,062
Richmond Heights $763,523 $12,109,281 6.3 8,603
Black Jack $123,355 $2,621,186 4.7 6,929
Clayton $1,027,932 $21,761,741 4.7 15,939
Olivette $283,289 $7,046,302 4.0 7,737
Bridgeton $445,171 $12,887,494 3.5 11,550
St. Louis City $11,022,000 $441,426,000 2.5 319,294
University City $586,281 $26,639,562 2.2 35,371
St. Louis County $4,397,769 $341,291,336 1.3 998,954
This totals up to around $35MM in Fines and Forfeitures in St. Louis (chosen due to Ferguson and all the articles around Mike Brown). Anyway WAG numbers this looks to be about 80% of the neighborhoods on the highways but it's got the 2 major players (city & county) so lets call it good.
St. Louis is 21st (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metropolitan_areas_of_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metropolitan_areas_of_...) in Metro area size, so that gives us $755MM if everything was actually the size of St. Louis.
However if I just add all the pops from 21 up I get 146MM people, so that means that if scaled linearly for St. Louis (which may or may not be right), we're talking $1.763MM, so around 1.75BN for the 21 biggest cities in the US.
Easy to say that traffic stops in the US are well over a billion.
Way over analysis but it shows scale of traffic income. If you read the first article linked, it points out the share of revenue this. It can be up to 36% of revenue for small municipalities.