Lloyd why are you trying to piss me off. lol
Here in Vegas they use traffic tickets and even DUI to make money for the city. That's why you see those big signs up all over Vegas about different lawyers who specialize in traffic tickets and DUI.
I just did a traffic ticket two weeks ago here. I went to these guys:
http://www.702traffic.com/
I had been ticketed for doing 50 in a 35 and not using my turn signals when I switched lanes. This occurred at 3:30 a.m. by the way with hardly any traffic at all on 6 lane Rancho Blvd right beside the Texas Station and Fiesta casinos. So nobody was in danger or anything.
Anyway, I took my ticket in to the Pink building on the corner of Flamingo & Rainbow and sat down with the attorney. He looked at my ticket and said: "The cop was being a real prick". And he told me that those two tickets would get me 6 to 8 points on my license according to what the judge decided.
I then paid him $400 He told me I would receive two parking tickets with GIANT fines payable to the city. I would get no points and the tickets are off my record.
I asked him how they were able to do that...he told me flat out: Because the city wants money. That's all it is.
Keep in mind...they do the same thing for DUI.
So yes Lloyd...I do think you could fire 3/4 of most any cities police dept. and the city would still be safe. Because you could just fire most of those money collectors called "traffic cops" and you still wouldn't have fired one REAL cop off the force.
In my humble opinion every one of those bastards should be ashamed to look in the mirror. Especially when they are setting up speed traps and pulling over women on their way to work in this bad economy...effectively costing them money that they can't afford to pay out when trying to struggle through this mess.