Odd. I follow the city budget where I live and never see officer pay based upon the number of tickets they issue nor it the police budget contingent upon ticket revenue. I see a police operating budget but revenue from tickets are reported in the court portion of the budget.
Can you please provide a link where a city has a budget line item that says how much the officers get paid is based on ticket revenue.
First provide where I said such.
I said they make an Income. And that income goes towards the city budget. The city budget is denoted in US dollars which by their very nature are fungible. The more money that goes in the budget from ticket income the more can be spent. Its a very simple concept.
Example: 2 police officers on the day shift have written 60,000 bucks worth of tickets for fiscal year 2014 which goes into this fund A. If we put one more police officer on the day shift we should be able to write an additional 30,000 dollars worth of tickets. We can then afford to hire an additional police officer. Which comes out of fund B because now we can move less tax dollars into fund A since we will get a projected increase of 30K and we can move those tax dollars to fund B to pay for the hiring of a new officer.
Oh and you should note I sat on my Town's Mayor's Budget Advisory council for 4 years and the example provided above was exactly a strategy my town used.
Any questions?
We got rid of our local police department due to the fact that we couldn’t justify paying them to sit on the main road and write tickets. Crime is nearly non existent here.
The police chief was happy with the move. Said he didn’t become a cop to write tickets.
Police ticket quotas as a revenue source
The town that lived off of speeding tickets
C'mon.
Shine them good now boy.