There will always be revenue enhancement, my problem is when people cry “oh poor Pedestrian” but don’t seem to care about motorists. And the main point is that a lot of the people create dangerous situations, jumping out, crossing in illegal areas, riding their bikes the in the wrong direction on the street. So tell me what is your solution, to just ignore it? To ask them to please stop? Without consequence behavior will not change. If you want to argue that the fines are excessive then fine I agree with you. You can’t have it both ways, police being proactive bad, police not doing their job also bad.
How about the same horde of cops interacting and educating? That would get results. They could ticket a few bird brained malcontents who won’t change what they are doing after lots of time. Funny thing is, they wouldn’t be able to give out many tickets though because the vast majority of people want to be helpful and want to be safe.
But we can’t do that and extort money though can we?