Quick-kick95 t1_j2asohw wrote on December 30, 2022 at 9:55 PM

Reply to comment by Biogeopaleochem in ABC News: "Washington, DC, records back-to-back years with 200 murders for 1st time in nearly 20 years" by Swampoodle1984

DC doesn't make a lot of money from officers writing tickets. Most of the traffic enforcement money comes from automated cameras, not 50 dollar parking tickets.

Kitchen_Software t1_j2atatn wrote on December 30, 2022 at 9:59 PM

Your point is valid, but to be pedantic: MPD doesn’t deal with parking tickets IIRC. That’s parking enforcement.

MPD would be (only?) moving violations. But I don’t think you could get one of those in DC if you tried.

Quick-kick95 t1_j2avr16 wrote on December 30, 2022 at 10:16 PM

MPD also issues parking tickets.

BubsterX1 t1_j2dk02e wrote on December 31, 2022 at 1:34 PM

This is correct. And those traffic cameras make tens of millions of dollars. The well-placed cameras (well-placed in the sense that people are expecting the speed limit to be about 35 based on the structure of the road) can individually generate several million dollars each year.