> Bounty hunters will immediately start surveillance wherever necessary, graffiti will plummet, and you'll be saving $10 million per year (even if you pay out $

> Bounty hunters will immediately start surveillance wherever necessary, graffiti will plummet, and you'll be saving $10 million per year (even if you pay out $25,000 every day). I can imagine this leading to a perverse incentive/cobra effect, in that there are people in many places with no financial ability to pay a fine who don't mind going to jail for a month or whatever. I like your ideas in general though, I just think they need a little refinement; maybe just combine them. "The term cobra effect was coined by economist Horst Siebert based on an anecdote of an occurrence in India during British rule. The British government, concerned about the number of venomous cobras in Delhi, offered a bounty for every dead cobra. Initially, this was a successful strategy; large numbers of snakes were killed for the reward. Eventually, however, enterprising people began to breed cobras for the income. When the government became aware of this, the reward program was scrapped. When cobra breeders set their now-worthless snakes free, the wild cobra population further increased." [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive