Targeted Ticketing

Violent criminals are running rampant in the streets, Muslims are setting up their own little fiefdoms within Great Britain, so whats the most important law to enforce?

Using surveillance cameras to make sure the tax-paying suburbanites put their trash out at the right time of day and in the right place, apparently.

This is symptomatic of a trend in law enforcement that I find very disturbing: fine the wealthy. It is, to some degree, an off-shoot of the enviro-nuts and their "hate the industrialists" campaigns, as this quote from the article shows:

Ealing council in west London said the hidden cameras would catch people committing "major envirocrimes".

It is also, however, the mentality that causes police officers to ticket obviously well-off suburbanites for expired vehicle inspection stickers, or pull over the Mercedes for driving 51 in a 45, while completely ignoring the smoke-puffing, unregistered jalopy with a La Raza sticker on the bumper which turns the corner on two wheels. The former will pay a ticket and generate revenue for the state, while the latter will simply cost more taxpayer cash and contributes nothing -- amounting to less than nothing.

Don't be surprised to find your trash being monitored, your car photographed at stoplights and your treks to the mall videotaped for future reference. After all, the powers-that-be may need to quickly fill a gap in the public coffers, and it's nice to know who'll pay up.

Welcome to the 21st century.

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(Hat-tip to Hey Daddy)