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If only we could use these here in the US to pay speeding tickets issued on the 29th of the month.

Have you considered not speeding

Sometimes this is not enough.

Explain how committing an offense and having to pay the legally established fine is similar to the corruption mentioned in the article.

Slow down and you won’t get fined.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ticket_quota

I mean, the ticket quota doesn't involve giving speeding tickets to people driving under the speed limit. If the sign says 35, drive 35, and you're good.

I'm sure they could then fine you for obstructing traffic for driving too slowly. Or for indicating too early, or too late. Or for not keeping enough distance from the vehicle in front of you. Or because you used your horn. Or for not using your horn perhaps. If they just kept following you, sooner or later you'd make a mistake.

Ticket quotas have been discontinued or made illegal in many places.

Do you believe you are somehow above the law, and immune from punishment later in the month? I’m confused by your response.

We're talking about a form of corrupt behavior.

Instead of giving you a ticket because you were exhibiting dangerous behavior per-se, instead it would be seen as an extra source of revenue for the county.

Towards the end of the month the police would issue more citations for ever more trivial transgressions, in order to meet the quota.

Obviously this had nothing to do with law or order.

In many places this is now discontinued or outright illegal.

Unironically just show up to court. I've had to pay less than 30% of parking tickets acquired as a result of showing up each and every time. When they do show up, I usually pay a small fraction of the initial fine after being polite to the cop.

Where I live, you get a discount if you just mail them a check, so if you go to court you risk losing significantly more.

I used to do this, but now I lose more money missing work to go to court than the cost of the ticket so I just pay for parking upfront to avoid the whole hassle.

In my state the best going to court tends to get you is a violation that won't show up on your record.

You can even go in with evidence but the court costs alone to defend make it a wash, to say nothing of time off work

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