Charlie,
However, if every person exercised his rights I don't think the fines could
ever be raised enough to compensate. I suspect that even the $800 to $1000
you suggest would not be enough to pay for the time of the muni court
personnel, the city attorney, the multiple judges, the police officer, and
other people and procedures that are required when anybody exercises his
right to fight his ticket. Raising the fines even higher would make the fine
for speeding -- in most cases, a mere infraction -- much greater than the
fine for many more serious crimes. The fines would have to be so large that
no elected official could advocate them (and stay in office).
Idealistically yours :)
-----Original Message-----
From: Smokerbros@aol.com [mailto:Smokerbros@aol.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 20:43
To: mrclem@telocity.com
Cc: ba-autox@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Fw: CA Special Alert
"Mike the Idealist" writes:
If everybody fought his ticket,
the state would lose more money prosecuting the cases than they gained
in
the ticket fees. Writing tickets would no longer be a revenue enhancing
activity. The police would focus traffic enforcement on safety rather
than
on revenue generation.
Or, they'd raise the price of the tickets... At$800-1000 for speeding,
they
could afford to go to court. I think it's ALWAYS going to be about
revenue
generation. What are we going to do, take our business elsewhere?
CHD
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