Originally Posted by teachme

i agree... In fact, a local police department in my neck of the woods created a unit of 4 state-of-the art vehicles and 6 officers to patrol and pursue traffic offenders. The reason they did this was the death rate in vehicular accidents was rising at an alarming rate. After the first year the number of tickets went up threefold but the fatalities dwindled to only one. This program has been in effect for five years now. And yes, the population moans and groans about tickets they feel are unjustified, but the department can look at the stats on fatalities and justify it.