For 10 years, as San Francisco leaders touted an ambitious Vision Zero goal to end traffic fatalities, police eased back on ticketing drivers.
Citations plummeted, from 12,444 in March 2014 to 336 in December 2023, according to city records.
The numbers are so stark that some frustrated observers wondered if officers had retreated from a fundamental part of their job, giving people the impression that road rage or speeding would go unpunished.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/sf-traffic-ticket-decline-data-19383950.php
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