For a long time speeding tickets have been looked at for extra tax revenue instead of a real disinsentive for speeding. The lure of easy revenue has made big cities install cameras to automatically catch people and collect big bucks. We must resist this "big brother" effort at all cost. In the suburbs (where there's little crime) policemen routinely camp out at 25 and 30 miles speed traps in order to wring more money from taxpayers' pockets. The traffic court system is the only court system where the prosecutor, the policemen, and the judge's salaries are paid by the defendant's fines. So much for blind justice!
The use of police as tax gatherers is causing respectable middle-class folks to develop contempt for them. This impedes legitimate law-enforcement activities.
Yes, even when you get a charge dismissed you still face court costs.
The traffic court system is the only court system where the prosecutor, the policemen, and the judge's salaries are paid by the defendant's fines.
"If the good lord didn't want them to be sheared he wouldn't have made them sheep." or taxpayers