[paperwell]

Originally Posted by craig11152

Local jurisdictions use the money for libraries and social programs.
My point is cops don't write tickets to help fund their own department.
One daughter and one son in law are cops. If they are pressured to write tickets it comes from outside the police department.

I don't think anyone is suggesting that a single cop is personally benefiting in a hyper-direct manner, but the published distribution is somewhat unimportant since everything is inter-connected. If funding for X comes from tickets, more funding for police or anything else may be available from Y since X has gotten alternative funding. I think anyone who says ticket-writing is solely about encouraging safety is mistaken, revenue generation is clearly a part of it. If it was just about giving fair penalties, the ticket costs would pay more heed to the disposable income of the area, as it is, the costs are often absurd for the lower class, and in many cases, debatably violate the 8th amendment's "Excessive Fines" clause.

[Bondurant]

The ticket was $170. I should have requested an itemized invoice. Last ticket I received was in Woodridge, IL for $75. According to an inflation calculator that's just over $112 in 2019 USD. This is definitely revenue over safety.

[craig11152]

Moral to the story....go the speed limit.
It's not hard for you to get a pretty accurate break down of where the $170 goes.
I will say again none of the $170 goes directly to the police department. So the cop had no vested interest in writing you up.

[Bondurant]

Originally Posted by craig11152

Moral to the story....go the speed limit.
It's not hard for you to get a pretty accurate break down of where the $170 goes.
I will say again none of the $170 goes directly to the police department. So the cop had no vested interest in writing you up.

It doesn't matter where the money goes. Law enforcement is part of local, county and state revenue generation schemes. This is is true nationwide.

[ram2]

Originally Posted by craig11152

I will say again none of the $170 goes directly to the police department. So the cop had no vested interest in writing you up.

That's how cops justify their existence - by writing tickets. How would the cop's supervisor react if the cop had written no tickets during his patrol shift?