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TRAFFIC-TICKET vultures? As I?ve noted here before, cities and counties in financial trouble seem t?

By Glenn Reynolds

TRAFFIC-TICKET vultures? As I’ve noted here before, cities and counties in financial trouble seem to go for increased traffic enforcement as a source of revenue. In Knoxville, they’re all over the Interstates, nailing people for money. It makes about as much sense as sending cops into shopping malls to seize the wallets of random customers, but hey, they can do it, so they do do it . . . .

Of course, maybe they’d have better than a thirteen-minute response time if they focused more on real crime and less on traffic-revenue maximization.

But KPD doesn’t respond to blog postings. Too busy. . . .

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on March 10, 2010 (boomark / email).