Texas tickets students for petty offence

[AK100]

And then the government starts turning on its citizens...............

 

[Visaria]

Quote from morganist:

I've said this many times before but I'll say it again.

When the UK lost money to Iceland the local council lost money. The police went around the town centre the next day giving people tickets for everything.

Which town centre? And tickets for "everything"?

 

[hippie]

Quote from hippie:

Here is about LA California. This April, LA police finally stops ticketing students for being a little late if they are on the way to school: http://colorlines.com/archives/2011..._students_on_their_way_to_school_anymore.html

Cops know that they can get the most number of truancy tickets napping kids near the school the first hour after school starts. These tickets are $240 each. Nice revenue enhancement for the LAPD.

"It turned out that many students who got slammed with tickets weren’t exactly “truants,” many students were getting ticketed while they were on their way to school, and sometimes while they were just blocks away. The tickets ended up hitting the poorest students worst; community organizing groups found that many kids have to help drop off their younger siblings to school, or are dependent on Los Angeles’ shoddy public transit or their own two feet to get them to school, and often were juggling many other things in their lives besides just school."

 

[peilthetraveler]

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Love how they even ticketed a cop!

 

[Random.Capital]

Quote from hippie:
Their favorite hangouts were places where the speed sign was sort of hidden or in parts of the road with a sudden slope. [/B]

My favorite was Florida traffic cops (FHP and locals) in the 90s running portable speed limit signs to different spots on the highways. Maybe they still do it, I don't know...

Anybody remember Dukes of Hazzard? The reason given for Sheriff Roscoe turning bad was that the county rejected a bond offering that would have paid the pension he'd been promised.

If a law is on the books, it will eventually be used for revenue or control purposes by those whose function it is to enforce things. That's how humans work...

Society works best when there is a balance between people respecting the power of the police and the police respecting the power of the mob. But we're humans, and generally suck at the balancing thing, so we swing from one one side to the other, over and over.