As a certain radio personality says, “follow the money.” These days of speed traps and excessive DUI arrests tell anyone that the primary motivation on all this stuff is revenue.
They can talk all they want about how it costs money to prosecute so they don’t really make anything, but they all want it flowing in. “Protect and serve” has become “Arrest and soak.”
I disagree.
I think the primary motivation is control (some people just can't stand the freedom embodied in a privately-owned and operated automobile).
The secondary motivation is revenue.
“These days of speed traps and excessive DUI arrests tell anyone that the primary motivation on all this stuff is revenue.”
I think it is also a systematic way to confiscate guns. The MADD witches have now made DUI a felony in Texas. Get a DUI and you cannot buy a gun. We can’t have those eeevil people that drink owning guns!