Tuesday, March 24, 2009

A rant

Something completely different...

Does anyone else think it is a huge conflict of interest to allow police to use the proceeds of applying the traffic act, that is they get to keep the monies collected from handing out traffic tickets? Isn't this the violation of some basic legal prinicple?

Police are incented to hand out more tickets so they can stay employed and hire more policemen to hand out tickets. It is human nature to want to stay employed and delude yourself into thinking you are serving the greater good when you're not necessarily doing so ...

For example, in my neighbourhood their is a school where the speed limit is 50km/h. The police hand out tickets like crazy all weekend long. They are not there when the kids are in school or just before or after school and at lunch. How is this a benefit to society?

Police should hand out traffice tickets. The money should be collected by the government and put into the big pot. The government should propose levels of policing and funding for police as their platform based on the consensus of policy makers and citizens and we should elect the government which represents our beliefs...

Police using the proceeds of the Traffic Act is undemocratic, a conflict of interest and does not necessarily lead to safer roads (if that is the objective of traffic laws).

I'll probably get ticketed like crazy from here on in ....

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