I saw on "Powerline" today how the rate of traffic tickets issued in San Francisco has plummeted in the past decade. For reference, here is the graph, and the crazy thing is that while the rate of issuing tickets has dropped by a factor of 30 or so, the vehicular death rate is about the same in the same time period.
Now perhaps San Francisco imposes a degree of traffic sanity found in not too many other places with large hills and lots of stoplights, but I do have to wonder if this is an indication that if it's public safety we're looking for, we need to take Officer Friendly off traffic patrol and have him start investigating serious crimes like rape--or replace him with someone who can.
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If SF is anything like SD, they just don't enforce traffic laws all that much, and it's dropped in the last 10 years. Could explain the discrepancy.
Well, 12000 citations per month in a city of half a million people back in 2014. Maybe I'm underperforming in getting traffic citations, but that's really one citation per driver every 24-36 months, realistically, and it's been a while for me, thankfully.
The main thing that comes to mind for a lack of correlation to traffic safety is if the vast majority of those citations are for parking offenses, I guess. Otherwise, I think we need to entertain the possibility that there really isn't much of a correlation between traffic enforcement and public safety. Given the amount of effort put into traffic enforcement, this is sobering, to say the least.
BB, you may have a point there. It's hard to give a parking ticket to a tent or a pile of human excrement.
That ^ was me
So my failure to get parking tickets has to do with being homeless? Oh, wait.... :^)
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