Off the top of my head: (1) Red light cameras which cause perverse incentives for the city to set the yellow light rotation to be shorter than the federal stan

Off the top of my head: (1) Red light cameras which cause perverse incentives for the city to set the yellow light rotation to be shorter than the federal standard[1]. (2) Civil Asset Forfeiture[2] is used by police and prosecutors theoretically to seize funds that are "more likely than not to have been gained from the commission of a crime", but is in practice too low of a burden on the prosecution and too high of a burden on honest taxpaying citizens to defend their property (the property is guilty until proven innocent). There was a long piece in the New Yorker on the topic a few years ago. As I remember it, 60% of the annual budget of the Sheriff's Office in one Arizona county was from seized property. Can you imagine what a Deputy in a rural county will do if they are told that there will be 60% department layoffs unless seizures rise to previous levels? (3) I'm trying to find the thread, but someone posted on Reddit everything that is wrong with Ferguson, Missouri (and all of the other tiny cities in St Louis county). Basically the cities are revenue-starved so they end up creating speed traps and the jurisdictions are so small it's not clear when the speed limit changes. Also, the court hours are onerous and it's basically impossible to pay a fine without missing a day of work (especially difficult in blue collar areas where most work is hourly and low-skilled). I can't find the thread, but Curbed did an article[3] that largely overlaps with the content. Basically cities end up revenue-starved (usually because they are in a race to the bottom to give away tax incentives to woo / keep large employers) so they end up nickle-and-diming their residents and frequent commuters so much that it destroys any semblance of a quality of life. They purposefully streamline the infraction side and add friction to the challenge/defense side such that it becomes a poor tax (the wealthy can afford to pay the fine and move outside the city). [1] https://padailypost.com/2019/07/23/opinion-the-ugly-truth-about-red-light-cameras/ https://padailypost.com/2019/07/23/opinion-the-ugly-truth-ab... [2] https://www.acluaz.org/en/legislation/reining-civil-asset-forfeiture https://www.acluaz.org/en/legislation/reining-civil-asset-fo... [3] https://www.curbed.com/2018/5/24/17382120/tickets-fees-fines-criminal-justice-ferguson https://www.curbed.com/2018/5/24/17382120/tickets-fees-fines...