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Originally Posted by DaFace
It's mostly just a deterrent. Speeding tickets aren't meant to find everyone who speeds. They're to keep the general population in line.
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Yup, if you know a 10k fine is possible, that alone is a deterrent even if you're 90% sure you won't be caught.
But let's be clear: there were other parts of the country that acted the same way toward New Yorkers in supercilious fashion when NYC was the world's hotspot. There's some schadenfreude at work here and it's not unwarranted.