It seems like a lot more money and effort is put into identifying and successfully prosecuting routine traffic violations then crimes involving identity theft and credit card fraud.
Easier to get scofflaws to pay their taxes, er fines, than to prosecute criminals.
Revenue is the driving force on all these schemes as well as cataloging citizens.
Or even crimes like illegal invasion of the USA by land, sea and air, welfare fraud, medical fraud and other stuff.
>>It seems like a lot more money and effort is put into
>>identifying and successfully prosecuting routine traffic
>>violations then crimes involving identity theft and
>>credit card fraud.
Follow the money, traffic citations have become an ever larger piece of city and state budgets, I can see it now…
Officer: Chief, I need a raise.
Chief: You don’t bring in enough revenue to get a raise.
Officer: My evaluations are perfect scores, and Jones…
Chief: Jones brings in an average of $20,000 a month in citations.
Chief: You go out there and raise your average to $15,000 for three months, and I’ll see what I can do.
There’s an old adage in business, you get what you measure, so measure what you want to get.
No, I don’t think conversations like this take place, it’s more subtle than that (I hope anyway).