Are you SERIOUSLY suggesting that you believe ANY police department generates enough revenue from speeding tickets alone to pay for the measures used to stop those speeders in the first place? I would highly doubt that is true.
Remember this place?
Ferguson, Missouri, collects around $2 million annually in fines and fees, mostly from traffic tickets -- a
44 percent increase from three years ago, the city's annual budget shows.
According to
data compiled by
Better Together, an economic-development group in St. Louis, fines for speeding and other violations account for more than 14 percent of Ferguson's municipal revenue. The town of 21,203 is too small and too poor to support itself with taxes, so police help the city's bottom line by ticketing drivers aggressively
How about GA:
Doraville, a city of 10,600, took in nearly $9 million in traffic fines between 2008 and 2012; Jonesboro, with 4,700 people, netted $3 million during the same period.
Roswell: 94,000 people, $9 million in fines;
Doraville: 10,600 people, $9 million in fines
What about this town:
Randolph, Mo., is a tiny town with a common problem: money is tight.
To keep afloat, the Kansas City outpost apparently did what many little towns on big highways do. It came to rely on passing motorists filling its municipal coffers one traffic ticket at a time.
The problem came last year when, 15 years after Missouri passed a law capping certain ticket collections at 35% of a town's revenue, the state decided to actually enforce the law.
It's unclear why state auditors suddenly opened the town's books, but upon doing so they discovered that Randolph--population 47--had collected more than three-quarters of its $270,000 budget the year before from traffic fines issued on state and federal roads. By law, money that exceeds the 35% limit must be turned over to county schools
There are a number of small towns along highways that fund their police force from tickets. It's actually quite common.