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ITs a side effect of the war on drugs. There is more money available for law enforcement than ever before. Police forces are larger and much better. A state trooper in NJ after 5 years is making close to 100 thousand a year. And state troopers mostly do traffic.
This has created small municipalities with larger and highly paid police forces, but are in areas with very little crime compared to a city. So they use their people for traffic enforcement. And as you say, revenue accrual.
In some small towns they drive up and down the parking lots running the plates of all the cars on their lap-tops looking for expired registration or whatever. Because they have the personell but not the actual crime.
Its a shame on two fronts, one they milk the people of their money, and they also sour people on police because the people know that the police don't get tickets themselves lol.
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