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10/13/2006
Study: Traffic Tickets Rise as City Income FallsA Federal Reserve Bank working paper concludes that revenue maximization is a primary motivation behind traffic ticket enforcement.
A Federal Reserve Bank of Saint Louis working paper concludes that municipalities use traffic tickets as a means of supplanting falling local revenue. Economist Thomas A. Garrett and University of Arkansas at Little Rock Professor Gary A. Wagner explain that although there is ample anecdotal evidence to show that this is the case, no empirical studies have ever examined the question in detail.
Using county-level data from North Carolina between 1989 and 2003, the working paper analysis takes ...
10/12/2006
UK: Software Creates Automated Perjury ChargesFacial recognition software is used to automate perjury charges for those attempting to challenge speed camera tickets.
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10/12/2006
UK: Speed Camera StonedVigilantes hurl stones and garbage at an Oldham, UK speed camera.
10/11/2006
Georgia: Woman Accused of Drunk Driving a HorseClayton, Georgia applies DUI statute to a woman riding a horse.
10/11/2006
Texas: Red Light Camera Cash Pours InNorth Texas cities are making millions from red light cameras.
