It seems that cities police forces are used in some extent to extort the local population via traffic violations. Police have quotas for number of tickets written and cities even budget out the “expected” revenue generated from traffic tickets so they can spend on various local issues.
This creates a conflict of interest of the police force as they are asked to extort so much revenue from the local populations to provide the expectations of their city. This makes officers write tickets that may be correct but also makes them pad arrests with more charges in an effort to purly maximize revenue.
Propose making all traffic ticket violations fines be 100 percent directed to ONLY national parks of the state or other approved enviromental efforts that benefit the entire state instead of just the local community which the ticket was served.
Maybe this will lower the demand on police to extort money from the population to satisfy the local city boards and administrations.
Make police actually “protect and serve” instead of rob and extort.
No argument on how some (perhaps many) municipalities use their police as “the Blue Mob”.
However, directing where extortion money goes doesn’t address the problem.
I propose privatizing all national parks under ownership of organizations that actually care about nature. For example, once land has been designated a State or National Park, then offer it for sale to organizations like the Audubon Society, Ducks Unlimited, etc.
Let them run the parks as a business to pay for its upkeep. They could charge admission for tourists, sell logging rights for timber that needs to be periodically cleared (to avoid forest fires), sell filming rights for movies, etc.
This gets government out of the “Park” business.
What an interesting idea! My only issue with it is as a hunter I could see many of the owner organization are anti-gun and anti-hunting.
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GREAT comment!! While I had not mentioned them in my original post, groups catering to hunters could also have the option to purchase and manage these Parks. As a hunter, you know the problems that wildlife overpopulation can create. And hunters care more about wildlife management than any government ever could.
It would be my hope that with all of these groups being forced to earn a profit, that even groups like Audubon Society, Ducks Unlimited, etc. would “figure out” that the game must be hunted in order to be maintained. Even Ted Turner figured out that the best way to save the Buffalo was to create a demand for Bison steaks and Burgers.
However, to your point (that we can’t “reason” with extremists), where parks are large enough to support hunting, it would be a good idea to include a mandate for wildlife management (including hunting) in the arrangement for those organizations to manage the parks.
Now that I can get behind! I wonder if this idea would be something DOGE II could do in a couple of years. I’m hopeful that there will be some kind of continuation of the DOGE concept.