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Fairness isn’t the bottom line in city courts when traffic tickets can be profitable tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
One increasingly common source of money for city governments is traffic tickets, and research shows police officers issue more traffic tickets when cities are financially in a deficit - but judges and their courts also use traffic citations to generate money for the cities that employ them.

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