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Originally Posted by Swimmer
What MikeP said is comletely accurate. And to say police are running radar to generate revenue is inaccuate. At least the money comes back to the town where the officer risks his butt and just doesn't end up in state coffers. In Massachusetts there is only one town in which the money generated by fines as a result of a ciattion is returned directly to the police department. All other fines go directly to that towns general fund.
I can tell you somedays you can hide and no one drives fats by you and other days you can sit out in the open and you get writers cramp.
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I wasn't infering police were supplementing their incomes with speeding fines, but all fines generate revenue for somebody, either the Feds/States/ or Towns. I know individual officers are not driven by revenue enhancement but you can be sure somewhere in the fiscal chain someone is anticipating a certain Traffic Fine dollar amount as a projected revenue line item on next years budget. Besides that how do you think the "designated speed trap" idea would effect speeding in general?