Rich people tend to have influence that can put a stop to this practice if they want to. If the fines are small enough and the stops are not terribly inconveniencing, they may accept it as "A cost of doing business". A few hundred dollars is a pretty cheap price to discourage the unwanted from traveling through those parts.
To put it another way. The police department is going to get funded one way or another. The residents have to make a choice:
Pay an additional $200 / year in property taxes
Pay a fine of $1000 on average of once every 5 years.
The cost for both is the same. The 2nd option also gives the side benefit of discouraging poor from traveling through.
so you're telling me that people are just "ok with it" when police set up roadblocks in their neighborhoods to ticket them 5, 6, 700 dollars for chips in their windshields and tire treads that are 1/32 of an inch too low?
they do this during the day, when all the hoodrats are sleeping off their 40's and blunts.
if this was to discourage shitty people from coming to their neighborhood wouldn't they be doing it during the night time when the rats come out?
OP had it correct. Its keeping the poor out of areas that do that kind of shit.
i have it correct as well, because i've seen them do it.
where i'm fgrom there are no "inspection stickers" so they use roadside vehicle inspections to steal money from people.
they do it in the rich areas where people have money so they know the people will pay the fines.
they don't do it in the ghetto, where the cars should be taken off the road for being unsafe, because those people have no money.
Rich people tend to have influence that can put a stop to this practice if they want to. If the fines are small enough and the stops are not terribly inconveniencing, they may accept it as "A cost of doing business". A few hundred dollars is a pretty cheap price to discourage the unwanted from traveling through those parts.
To put it another way. The police department is going to get funded one way or another. The residents have to make a choice:
so you're telling me that people are just "ok with it" when police set up roadblocks in their neighborhoods to ticket them 5, 6, 700 dollars for chips in their windshields and tire treads that are 1/32 of an inch too low?
they do this during the day, when all the hoodrats are sleeping off their 40's and blunts.
if this was to discourage shitty people from coming to their neighborhood wouldn't they be doing it during the night time when the rats come out?