“You know what else I saw on my half-hour commute to the Slate offices? At least 30 cars idling in the bike lane for unspecified reasons—hazard lights on—forcing me to maintain forward momentum by jackknifing into the busy thoroughfare.”
“You know what else I saw on my half-hour commute to the Slate offices? At least 30 cars idling in the bike lane for unspecified reasons—hazard lights on—forcing me to maintain forward momentum by jackknifing into the busy thoroughfare.”
They “need” numbers to justify work, to justify budgets. Poorer people are easier targets so they get more numbers against poorer people and therefor target poorer people. Trying to ticket a rich guy in a Lambo is just asking for months of trial work and a lawyer.
That needs to be fixed. Either by address the way police get their budgets/selected, and/or making the courts more fair (progressive fine schemes also help make the bigger whale cases “worth it” for example).