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In Arkansas, they passed a law that limits these municipalities from collecting more than 50% of their revenue from traffic citations. It had been a problem fo
by marcus0x62 3y ago
In Arkansas, they passed a law that limits these municipalities from collecting more than 50% of their revenue from traffic citations. It had been a problem for years, but only passed after a police officer, who was both out of his jurisdiction and violating a court order enjoining his department from issuing traffic citations, beat a man to death after the man saw his friend getting a ticket and stopped to let his friend know the ticket was invalid and that he could get it dismissed.
- SomeHacker44 3y agoEven that seems excessive. How about 5%? Or not allowing the funds from citations to be used for municipal benefit at all? Have them go to a victim compensation program, or a halfway house, or medical welfare, or children's food, or something. Just saying the incentives are wrong here.
- marcus0x62 3y ago> How about 5%? Or not allowing the funds from citations to be used for municipal benefit at all? Sounds good, but I doubt any government would go for that. > Have them go to a victim compensation program, That assumes there are any “victims” associated with the citations in question.