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476. What Are the Police for, Anyway?

Freakonomics Radio

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Traffic Reform - Sao's Argument

Sao: Police could focus on real criminal investigation of murders, o violence and haf traffic enforcement be more like paying tax. Traffic i see as more regulatory than criminal. Why have humans pull cars over when that same information can go to an official sitting in an office and mail out notices saying, your life, since te registration is expired? To automate as much as we can to reduce human interactions on the road, but at the same time enforce traffic laws.

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