March 13, 2021 - Epoch Times
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| News of police using traffic fines to generate revenue is commonplace throughout China. | |
| During the CCP's two sessions meetings, an official mentioned that electronic police have been unreasonable and abusive for many years, generating huge amounts of fine revenue for traffic control departments. | |
| He also exposed the various shady practices of traffic control departments, setting up penalty traps and phishing enforcement. | |
| The two sessions closed on March 11. | |
| During the sessions, Han De Yun, a lawyer at Chongqing Suotong Law Firm, Proposed to standardize the use of electronic police and to limit the scope of local traffic control departments in their use of electronic police to generate revenue from fines. | |
| The electronic police, also known as electronic eyes or surveillance cameras, can catch drivers running red lights, speeding, and parking violations. | |
| According to official statistics, the total amount of traffic fines in 2020 was about $46 billion. | |
| Based on the 275 million vehicles in China, the average fine per vehicle was $167. | |
| According to Han's introduction, in some electronic eye-dense areas, such as Xinjiang Beijing Expressway, there are many traffic regulation signs that drivers can easily miss while driving. | |
| As a result, the number of traffic sign violations reached 40,790 in a month, an average of 1,359 per day. | |
| Han has discovered the unreasonable and abusive placement of road signs and electronic eyes in China many years ago. | |
| Which has helped traffic control departments generate huge revenues from fines. | |
| For example, some cities deliberately set lower maximum speeds and multiple speed limits on some flat, open roads with no buffer zone to switch between. | |
| Once the vehicle changes lanes when the road is clear and crosses the lines as a result, violations will be given. | |
| Han said that there are also some roads with ultra-strong flashing devices, which not only bring traffic safety hazards, but also become a fine trap to benefit the traffic control departments. | |
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| Li, a Chinese policeman, told NTD that traffic control departments' fines are linked to local economic and fiscal revenues. | |
| 30% of the fines go to local finances, 70% to their local control departments, so they have an interest in it. | |
| Now there's surveillance everywhere, cameras everywhere, fine everywhere. | |
| It's not rare in China anymore. | |
| Li said that the problem has existed for many years. | |
| Even the proposal by representatives at the two sessions cannot solve it. | |
| Over the years, news of traffic police fines to generate revenue is commonplace throughout China. | |
| The fines have become a magic bullet for traffic control departments to rake in money. | |
| In 2014, a resigned traffic police officer exposed on the Tianya Forum that the traffic police brigade has annual fines quotas. | |
| which are allocated to the various squadrons in proportion. | |
| The squadrons will then allocate the quotas to on-the-road traffic policemen. | |
| On average, traffic police must issue about 2000 tickets per day to complete their tasks. | |
| A 30% bonus will be given for each achievement annually. | |
| All traffic police officers exceeded the quotas each year. | |
| In March 2016, The Shanghai Public Security Bureau conducted a road traffic regulation campaign. | |
| Over 6,700 traffic police officers in the city were on duty. | |
| An online notice revealed that traffic police would not leave work without completing the number of penalties imposed that day, which was based on the targets set by the Shanghai Municipal Committee. | |
| In March 2018, during the two sessions of the CCP, Han Zhirpeng, A member of the Guangzhou Municipal Committee lambasted the traffic police for charging fines like opening a money printing machine. | |
| One traffic police team fined 9.7 million in 50 days. | |
| So how much was fined nationwide? | |
| Where did all the fines charged by traffic police nationwide go? | |
| James Lay, a Master of International Law from the Chinese University of Political Science and Law, Some people portray these traffic police as licensed robbers, That is, playing a legal signboard to rob people's money and make up for the insufficient tax revenue. | |
| The public tax revenue is not enough, so they secretly used this method with the nature of robbery and extortion to rob people's money to erode people's material possessions. | |
| According to Lai, since the local government departments at all levels are financially strained, the legal tax revenue is not enough for them, so they made the traffic control department set trap fines. | |
| This issue has been exposed countless times, but it resumed afterwards and even intensified. | |
| This is decided by the nature of the regime. | |
| Governments at all levels need to earn money. | |
| They need money in so many places. | |
| There are too many extravagant things and too many different kinds of expenses for maintaining stability. | |
| The normal tax revenue is not enough for them to squander and waste. | |
| Not enough for them to maintain stability. | |
| So they use a variety of covert means to increase fiscal revenue. | |
| Lai said that this is a cancer in Chinese society under the CCP and this problem cannot be solved if the nature of the authoritarian regime remains unchanged. | |
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