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If that happened, authorities would rapidly lose the will to investigate breaches.

• markdown 6y ago
  Wait, do the police and public prosecutor in your country personally receive the money from fines resulting from their prosecution of crimes like this one?
  • Triv888 6y ago
    They do, when it comes to civil forfeiture/seizure [1]... not sure about lawsuits. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Civil_forfeiture_in_the_U...
    • __m 6y ago
      Article is about a german company.
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  • corty 6y ago
    In Germany, fines go to the general state or federal budget, not the police budget. The only thing where there is a really obvious wrong incentive are parking violations, those go to the community, the community prosecutes and sets the local parking regs. So that, along with speeding tickets inside city limits (in parts), is a money-printing business for them.
    • chopin 6y ago
      At least smaller Communities are very much restricted what they can do with regards to speeding. That's the reason why there are posts everywhere which show your actual speed instead of giving a ticket.
  • epanchin 6y ago
    I’m in the UK. The fines go to the Treasury, so the central purse. If fines were distributed to the public and the ICO collected zero income, I believe the political will do finance it would disappear. I was not suggesting officers themselves would change priorities based on individual pay outs, sorry for the confusion.