“The message goes out that if you want more training, then go ahead and write more traffic tickets,” said Gil Kerlikowske, a former police chief in Seattle and three other cities. and police training in Connecticut, Oklahoma and South Carolina. a “peace officers annuity and benefit fund” in Doraville, Ga. Ticket revenue helped finance sheriff’s equipment in Amherst County, Va.
In Bratenahl, Ohio, the town government is so dependent on traffic enforcement that the police chief castigated his officers as “badge-wearing slugs” in an email when a downturn in ticket writing jeopardized raises. Oliver, Ga., with about 380 residents, gets more than half its budget from fines, but an investigation last year found that the local police had improperly written more than $40,000 in tickets outside their jurisdiction. They include Henderson, La., a town of about 2,000 people perched along Interstate 10 that collected $1.7 million in fines in 2019 - 89 percent of its general revenues - and where officers were accused of illegally receiving cash rewards for writing tickets. A majority are in the South and Midwest, though clusters also appear outside New York City and Washington.
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