to happen.

It is states that allow municipal courts that can profit from fines and court costs that do more to harm minority and poor communities and break down trust with law enforcement than anything else.

If I had my way across the nation municipal courts would be largely abolished and all court costs, fines and other income from courts would only go to legitimate court expenses, and the rest would go to a central state fund to be spent on schools, drug rehab, and other things proven to have a long term effect at reducing crime.

There is zero reason for an arresting or ticketing agency to ever see a dime from that activity.

That is how it is in NC. If I wrote a traffic ticket my department, and the county, got at most $5. Usually nothing, it was an odd formula. But it meant they had to pay me overtime to go sit around the courthouse BS'ing with the bailiffs all day on the off chance I was needed to testify if the ticket was challenged.

It was such a loss that our department policy was to have 2 deputies who did traffic enforcement, and it was strongly encouraged that everyone else give warnings unless it was a bad enough offense. The Sheriff would even send nasty memos about too many tickets causing him to spend too much money on court overtime.

Unless you were badly wreckless, DUI, or had a child that was unrestrained (my huge pet peeve- if you had a small child without a car seat or unbuckled you got no mercy from me) I never wrote a ticket or made an arrest for anything else traffic related. Fix-it tickets and warnings only.

in the prosecutors office, the courts, and City Hall.

A conspiracy of racist trash, plundering the minority members of their own communities.