I don’t want to increase the budget either but perhaps it’s time for the DMV enforcement and real, live police work to be separated into separate forces.
Expired tags etc are a flimsy pretext for traffic stops, vehicle searches etc and those 2 hr roadsides fishing expeditions mean another 2 hrs a cop is sidelined while burglaries etc continue apace.
Burgularies don’t raise money for the government. Traffic enforcement does.