Posted: 5/29/2005 1:33:30 PM EDT
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Thread starter here: http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=356036 claims Oregon allows the communities to keep revenue from traffic tickets. I know that even in states where the money from state VTL fines goes to the state that officers sometimes cite under local laws and the fine money stays local.....anyone here able to verifyv that Oregon does in fact keep fine money from traffic tickets local? Ninety-six per cent of local funding coming from tickets as she claims sounds a bit inflated.... |
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Can't tell you about Oregon, but, in Montana the ticket money goes into the "General Fund" for the jurisdiction that the ticket is written for. So Deputies' tickets go to the County, City goes to the City, and Highway Patrol goes to the State. No funding to the agency is derived from general fund dollars, so most places in Montana don't have quotas as a result. 96% is very inflated. To fund just the sheriff's department in this county that would mean the 40 some deputies would need to issue about $10 million in fines. For 100,000 people in the county that would mean that everyone would need to get tagged with $100 worth of tickets every year. If every deputy in the department were a street cop (about 20 are) each would need to write 7 of those tickets every day of the year (or 1 ticket every 1.5 hours or so) to make that kind of money. I'll tell you that's not likely to happen. So to fund an entire city or county with just tickets? I don't think so. |