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“In most cases we can take care of everything in a single phone call,” he wrote.60 It’s likely that he was responsible for creating the scheme in the first place.”
― Tony Messenger, Profit and Punishment: How America Criminalizes the Poor in the Name of Justice

“After the law took effect, city leaders found a workaround: all speeding fines were changed to parking violations. But once a state audit uncovered the scheme, city leaders resigned, the town went broke, and now it’s back to being what it was before, a blip on”
― Tony Messenger, Profit and Punishment: How America Criminalizes the Poor in the Name of Justice

“Ironically, opposition was coming from mayors in the places that needed the bill most:”
― Tony Messenger, Profit and Punishment: How America Criminalizes the Poor in the Name of Justice