Heard about this several times on the news this morning. They act like it's a new scam. Cops don't write enough tickets they get reassigned.
In my area when they wanted more city money they even put it in the paper that cops would be writing more tickets. For awhile half the people I know were getting popped. One cop going 60 on a residential street nearly hit me and swung around and went even faster to come give me a ticket. Said I ran the stop sign (which I didn't). He wrote the ticket for "disregard of a traffic device".
Do you know what the difference between "running a stop sign" and "disregard of a traffic device" is? Double the fine.
Only difference in NYC is they lied about it all these years.
