Fewer Tickets? Duh!

No time for nonsense:

• Chicago Police officers who have their hands full with rising homicides and other violent crime are on pace to write 15 percent fewer parking tickets in 2012, but revenues are up, thanks to dunning deadbeats, dramatically higher fines and a fundamental shift to outside ticket-writers.

  Through July 31, police officers wrote 513,413 parking tickets, or 73,344-a-month, a rate that would translate into 880,128 tickets for the year if it continues. That’s down 15 percent from the 86,202-a-month and 1.034 million tickets written last year and a 20 percent drop from 2010.

This is surprising why? We're down almost 2,000 cops from peak numbers a few years ago. Calls for service are up, regardless of what the crime numbers show. "More with less" is killing any sort of proactive policing and the time due policies are contributing to a morale death spiral that doesn't really lend itself to feeling like help out the political apparatus that's fucking us every day.