Good take. I’m disappointed to see so many comments that basically boil down to “fuck the police”. There’s a much more interesting story here. We have a deadloc

Good take. I’m disappointed to see so many comments that basically boil down to “fuck the police”. There’s a much more interesting story here. We have a deadlock between states underfunding their police departments, speed limits that were lowered during a gas crisis that never came back up which makes a criminal of anyone that simply keeps up with traffic, and police departments that need some sort of revenue. You can’t put all the blame on the police. Something does need to be done about civil forfeiture and police departments that rely on traffic citations from people out of town, but I’m not sure that the problem can be solved by hoping that they’ll come to their senses. The incentives that have produced this behavior are much more interesting and much more difficult.