If the cops are writing, let's say, $1.5 million in tickets each year, you'd have an average revenue of $30,000 per cop. According to the quoted police chief, the cops have salaries of $80,000 to $100,000, so it looks like the cops are robbing the town's coffers just as much as anyone who gets ticketed.
EDIT: Obviously, using ticketing as a net revenue generator is bad, but it doesn't seem like the town is benefiting from revenues: it's a purely parasitical relationship here.
The town is basically an ouraboros human centipede. The town shits into the mouth of the police, which then shits into the mouth of the town. A perfect closed system, a perpetual motion device which is refreshed every now and then by whoever is foolish enough to drive through this place!
If the cops are writing, let's say, $1.5 million in tickets each year, you'd have an average revenue of $30,000 per cop. According to the quoted police chief, the cops have salaries of $80,000 to $100,000, so it looks like the cops are robbing the town's coffers just as much as anyone who gets ticketed.
EDIT: Obviously, using ticketing as a net revenue generator is bad, but it doesn't seem like the town is benefiting from revenues: it's a purely parasitical relationship here.
The town is basically an ouraboros human centipede. The town shits into the mouth of the police, which then shits into the mouth of the town. A perfect closed system, a perpetual motion device which is refreshed every now and then by whoever is foolish enough to drive through this place!