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Legal question regarding Police Vehicles without lights on during speed traps
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<blockquote data-quote="txyaloo" data-source="post: 11257249" data-attributes="member: 23362"><p>You do know the books of cities, counties, and states are available for you to review, right? Those records are audited and tell you exactly how much "revenue" was generated. If you actually take the time to research yourself, you'll see whatever "revenue" generated from traffic citations is negligible to probably 99% of political entities in the US. In fact, when accounting for costs of the police force, courts, debt collectors, reports to the state, etc traffic enforcement actually cost municipalities much more money that it generates. It doesn't make much sense for a business to keep doing something for revenue purposes when it causes them to operate at a loss, does it? So why would a municipality do the same?</p><p></p><p>Let's look at the city of Austin. The cost to run the police department is $216 million, and the cost to run the municipal courts which oversee traffic cases was $11 million. For the FY09, the city had $8.8 million in traffic fines. This is out of a city budget of over $2 billion. That's .33% of the entire city budget. So, the "revenue" generated by traffic ticket's doesn't even cover the cost to run the administration of the departments tasked with writing them. Yeah. It's obviously a revenue issue.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/budget/09-10/downloads/Exe%20Final%20Draft.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/budget/09-10/downloads/Exe Final Draft.pdf</a></p><p></p><p>Taken directly from the city budget:</p><p></p><p></p><p>So, for FY10, we have $10 mil in traffic citations in a budget of $2.64 billion. That's .38% of the entire budget for the city.</p><p></p><p>They even provided graphs in the budget for those that have trouble looking at numbers. While the graph shows revenue for fines and fees to be 4% of the budget, there are $60 mil in other fines/fees included in the budget, but since we're talking about traffic citations, those don't count.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]256664[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Look at any other city and the breakdown will be similar.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="txyaloo, post: 11257249, member: 23362"] You do know the books of cities, counties, and states are available for you to review, right? Those records are audited and tell you exactly how much "revenue" was generated. If you actually take the time to research yourself, you'll see whatever "revenue" generated from traffic citations is negligible to probably 99% of political entities in the US. In fact, when accounting for costs of the police force, courts, debt collectors, reports to the state, etc traffic enforcement actually cost municipalities much more money that it generates. It doesn't make much sense for a business to keep doing something for revenue purposes when it causes them to operate at a loss, does it? So why would a municipality do the same? Let's look at the city of Austin. The cost to run the police department is $216 million, and the cost to run the municipal courts which oversee traffic cases was $11 million. For the FY09, the city had $8.8 million in traffic fines. This is out of a city budget of over $2 billion. That's .33% of the entire city budget. So, the "revenue" generated by traffic ticket's doesn't even cover the cost to run the administration of the departments tasked with writing them. Yeah. It's obviously a revenue issue. [url]http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/budget/09-10/downloads/Exe%20Final%20Draft.pdf[/url] Taken directly from the city budget: So, for FY10, we have $10 mil in traffic citations in a budget of $2.64 billion. That's .38% of the entire budget for the city. They even provided graphs in the budget for those that have trouble looking at numbers. While the graph shows revenue for fines and fees to be 4% of the budget, there are $60 mil in other fines/fees included in the budget, but since we're talking about traffic citations, those don't count. [ATTACH=full]256664[/ATTACH] Look at any other city and the breakdown will be similar. [/QUOTE]
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