100% agree. Its like the fine you get for a speeding ticket. Do they really think $75 is going to stop anyone from speeding? No, and they don't care. Its a revenue source for them so they keep it reasonably low and make up the difference in volume.
If they really wanted to stop speeding they'd charge $500 for a first offense. So maybe instead of giving those departments incentive to basically rob people--and, lets face it, that's exactly what it is--we fund them through taxes. That way they can focus on doing their jobs and not on speeding ticket quotas.
Speeding tickets average closer to $150 than $75, and I think there are plenty of people who adjust their speeds to avoid them.
There are certainly places where they exist purely as a revenue function, but I don't think that it is accurate to imply that this is the case everywhere.
If they really wanted to stop speeding they'd charge $500 for a first offense. So maybe instead of giving those departments incentive to basically rob people--and, lets face it, that's exactly what it is--we fund them through taxes. That way they can focus on doing their jobs and not on speeding ticket quotas.