Seattle cops give out 90% fewer traffic tickets as car-related deaths rise

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Seattle cops give out 90% fewer traffic tickets as car-related deaths rise

By Natalie O'Neill   
March 15, 2023

Cops in Seattle are handing out fewer traffic tickets in a liberal plan to all but scrap enforcement  — but car-related deaths have spiked to a “crisis level” in the same time period, according to transportation data.

Police gave out just 3,863 tickets in 2022 — a roughly 90% plunge from an annual average of 40,000 during the 2010s, according to The Seattle Times.

But the massive decrease — part of an anti-police effort by some liberal city council members — comes as 28 people died in traffic crashes and 10,000 had accidents the same year.

And in 2021, there were 30 fatalities —  the most the Emerald City had seen in 15 years.

In a recent review of its “Vision Zero” campaign — which aims to end traffic deaths in the city by 2030 — Seattle’s transportation department probed why the effort is not working.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2023/03/15/seattle-cops-give-out-90-less-traffic-tickets-as-car-deaths-rise/