“…The fines are not enough to stop these people, especially the guys who are going this fast in like these multi-hundred thousand dollar super cars”
“I don’t think that the fines are the biggest deterrent, especially people in these very, very expensive vehicles. Or these teenagers…usually if you’re a teenager and you’re driving a hundred thousand dollar fancy car, you’re not the one that paid for it”
“If a person is driving a Lamborghini, and they get a 200 or 300 dollar fine, that’s like pocket change to them”
“The police are very, very short staffed right now, so they don’t have the resources to put into traffic”
“What about this idea that, your fine should be correlated with how much money you earn?”
“I go back and forth on whether that’s an effective way of dealing with the problem”
“When we talk about changing behaviour, punishments has to be closely associated with the conduct”
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