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Because nearly all US police have a perverse incentive to issue easy-revenue traffic tickets. From the article: > The New York City Police Department, for exam
by tehwebguy 9y ago
Because nearly all US police have a perverse incentive to issue easy-revenue traffic tickets. From the article:
> The New York City Police Department, for example, issued more than 96,000 citations to drivers in 2012 for excessive window tinting, which wasn’t an influence in any fatal or injurious crashes.
> By comparison, according to a October 2013 Transportation Alternatives report, the NYPD issued fewer than 12 summonses a month in 2012 to drivers who failed to yield, one of the leading causes of injurious crashes in New York.
- dsfyu404ed 9y ago> drivers who failed to yield, one of the leading causes of injurious crashes in New York. That's like saying "speed causes accidents". Yes, the accident probably would have been avoidable at 5mph. Yes, not cutting people off when taking a left turn would be nice but eventually you just have to make eye contact and floor it if you want to take a left turn (granted that's not a good example but "failure to yield" is a broad enough category to be useless).