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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gixxerjasen" data-source="post: 1102239" data-attributes="member: 20220">Agreed Bounce.  I hate using statistics to monitor whether someone is doing a good job or not.All that said, and this is getting a smidge off topic here, but as far as I can see, all money coming or going from a government body, has to be included in a budget somewhere.  If ticket revenue is in the budget, someone is going to get upset if the budgeted revenue isn't coming in, thus there's still somewhat of a quota out there.I often wonder, if the money went to a charity or somewhere else, how much of a focus tickets would be on a police departments daily work.  HRZ says that not a lot of money is made by the city.  I think things must be different in Texas.  City of Mesquite has guys out daily on 635.  That officer was super efficient with his time and it took less than five minutes for my ticket from him pulling off the median to back on the median running radar/laser and they got $250 from me for flowing with traffic (literally, car in front of me, behind me and next to me).  Literally, he'd gotten back on the highway and was set up before I could gear back up and get on the bike again.  I can't help but see that there's a budget getting fattened up there somewhere.</blockquote>