Just make the fines based on percent of income. Around here a speeding ticket equals 1-1/2 days income for the average citizen. Make the sting equal across the board.
Don’t be driving a new expensive car in California. You are the person that is going to get pulled over and ticketed.
“Just make the fines based on percent of income. Around here a speeding ticket equals 1-1/2 days income for the average citizen. Make the sting equal across the board.”
Sorry, makes too much sense...
So, given that some have no income, the result might be construed as getting a ticket results in the award of 1.5 days of an anti-fine.
Get a ticket and receive a $120 payment from the court which is a traffic fine credit
(minimum wage $10 * 8 = 80 * 1.5 = $120)
How about doing the correct thing for a change? Fund the courts out of general tax revenue and adjust the fines downward for all. Make fines increase with each infraction within a given period of time.
No shows at court get county farm time and repeat scofflaws get serious jail time.
OBTW, the cameras — speed and red light — should be illegal as they track machines and not individuals. Everywhere this has been seriously tested in court this argument wins.
Frankly, if it were up to me, I would drop all fines and jail time. The replacement would be lashes in public. Quick, remembered and, once done, completely over.