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There was an interesting long piece in the Richmond Times-Dispatch on August 24 about ticket quotas in Virginia traffic enforcement. It highlights some of the oddities in traffic enforcement that we don’t often think about.
The Times-Dispatch obtained an email sent to Virginia State Police for a certain area of the state that said troopers should write a minimum of five tickets per day, or “one every two hours.” They quote directly from the email:
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Dominic Pino is a former economics editor and Thomas L. Rhodes Fellow at National Review and the former host of the American Institute for Economic Research podcast Econception.
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There was an interesting long piece in the Richmond Times-Dispatch on August 24 about ticket quotas in Virginia traffic enforcement. It highlights some of the oddities in traffic enforcement that we don’t often think about.
The Times-Dispatch obtained an email sent to Virginia State Police for a certain area of the state that said troopers should write a minimum of five tickets per day, or “one every two hours.” They quote directly from the email:
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About the Author
Dominic Pino is a former economics editor and Thomas L. Rhodes Fellow at National Review and the former host of the American Institute for Economic Research podcast Econception.
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