Surprise ! in Surprise, AZ

Looking at what is going around country lately I would rather say: What took them so long?
After all, there is so many examples from other places how to make Police into money making institution. Like for example Virginia:

"...A federally funded ticketing blitz in the state of Virginia landed a total of 6996 traffic tickets this weekend. The blitz, dubbed "Operation Air, Land and Speed" coincided with frantic efforts by state officials to close a$2.2 billion budget deficit. Supervisors ordered state troopers to saturate Interstates 81 and 95 to issue as many tickets as humanly possible over the space of two days..."
source: http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/30/3073.asp

Tourism is an import part of any state's economy and I would think "actions" such as this would tend to discourage visitors from spending any time in Virginia. This is what is known as a "Short Term Gain, Long Term Loss"

New cameras are going up all over Arizona. I'm seeing more mobile cameras in my area, as well.