{"id":793,"date":"2009-01-08T18:40:30","date_gmt":"2009-01-09T00:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/?p=793"},"modified":"2009-01-08T18:40:30","modified_gmt":"2009-01-09T00:40:30","slug":"red-ink-in-the-rearview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2009\/01\/08\/red-ink-in-the-rearview\/","title":{"rendered":"red ink in the rearview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/files\/2009\/01\/rearview.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-794\" title=\"rearview\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/files\/2009\/01\/rearview-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/business\/stories.nsf\/yourmoney\/story\/7788F79C1BEA1C52862575360005B4AD?OpenDocument\">st. louis post-dispatch<\/a> <\/em>reports on a new <em>journal of law and economics <\/em>study showing that traffic tickets go up when local government revenues go down.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/research.stlouisfed.org\/wp\/2006\/2006-048.pdf\">Red Ink in the Rearview Mirror: Local Fiscal Conditions and the Issuance of Traffic Tickets<\/a>&#8221; by thomas garrett and gary wagner, uses county-level <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0wL9Li0f1Po\">north carolina<\/a> panel data to establish the relationship. from the abstract:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%\">We find that significantly more tickets are issued in the year following a decline in revenue, but the issuance of traffic tickets does not decline in years following revenue increases. Elasticity estimates reveal that a ten percent decrease in negative revenue growth results in a 6.4 percent increase in the growth rate of traffic tickets. Our results suggest that tickets are used as a revenue generation tool rather than solely a means to increase public safety.<br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\njust as <a href=\"http:\/\/chrisuggen.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/look-for-me-in-right-lane-driving.html\">we, the ticketed<\/a>, have long suspected.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkleft.com\/main\/2\">talkleft<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the st. louis post-dispatch reports on a new journal of law and economics study showing that traffic tickets go up when local government revenues go down. &#8220;Red Ink in the Rearview Mirror: Local Fiscal Conditions and the Issuance of Traffic Tickets&#8221; by thomas garrett and gary wagner, uses county-level north carolina panel data to establish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[452,938],"class_list":["post-793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-law-enforcement","tag-speeding"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":795,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions\/795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}