Unfortunately govern-cement incentives are otherwise.

If i was actually paying for the police, very few would be writing speeding tickets.

However, from the police / incarceration industry, $4,000 is money well spent, as you get 3x that much back.

And it was other people's money to begin with.

The reason cannabis is so popular for arrests is that pot smokers rarely fight back. Easy raid, easy incarceration, easy evidence. And the po-po get paid the same for an easy bust as they do for going after hardened criminals who are prepared to fight back.