It offsets the taxes you
It offsets the taxes you would otherwise be paying. In most cases part of it goes back to the police directly. Part of their purpose is to write traffic citations and keep the road safe from Nascar wantabe's and alike. YES it is necessary income to the state and/or township. In this case they were doing their job. It was AT LEAST careless driving. Sorry, this one isn't on the cops. Also I'll tell you, if I was one of his passengers, I don't care how good a friend, I'd be pissed off big time. The driver made a bonehead move and now he has to pay for it, sorry again, but such is life. Look at the wreck and tell me it wasn't careless, to say the least.