Don't you just hate it when you plan to screw your constituents out of nearly a hundred million bucks and you only get, like, half of that?
A combination of salesmanship and greed led the city of Chicago to blanket the city with speed and red-light cameras. They were expected to issue over one million tickets a year. Estimates of Chicago's population range between 2.6 and 9.5 million people, depending on how one defines "Chicago".
Unfortunately for Chicago's embattled mayor, Rahm Emanuel, the motorist sheep couldn't be sheared at quite the expected rates. The shortfall between expected revenue and actual revenue could be as much as fifty million dollars, putting pressure on the city to make the money up in other ways.
Still, one has to wonder: If a law is broken at least four hundred thousand times a year in a city area of under ten million people, how valid is the law? And if a city is betting on a million lawbreakers a year to balance its budget, where is the incentive to look at ways to keep people from breaking the law, whether through adjusting the law or adjusting the roads? Finally, if Mayor Emanuel really wants a million people a year to go speeding through school zones, what does that say about his sense of ethics?
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