text: This law change is all well and good, assuming it comes to pass. However, what we really, really, really need is actual traffic law enforcement. It has been shown time and again, both in practice and in theory, that it is not the size of the penalty that changes behavior but the certainty of being caught doing something "wrong".
  
  I'd much rather see a bill to assess the effectiveness of police traffic law enforcement by randomly looking at the relative lawfulness of motor vehicle operators' behavior. Just look at a few roads and intersections and tabulate the percent of motorists who are not speeding, leaving their lanes or violating the traffic control devices (very low locally) and tie the pay of the top third of the agency responsible for enforcement to those numbers. 
  
  If we did so, Chief Kerns might have to move into the Mission since our low rate of traffic law compliance might mean that he is paid zero dollars.