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A Monopoly on Violence (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Sure, but if simply keeping the roads safe was their only objective, they wouldn't have things like quotas where they have to shake down a certain number of people for the sake of their budget.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

That depends a lot on the quota system. If they're easily achievable then it's not going to incentivize bad stops. If you have a county that gets four cars a day and the quota is four cars then there's a problem. Generally it's a useful way to make sure your police aren't sitting at the donut shop while they should be working. Like most policies its problems lie in the extremes.