Business Analyst Chris Anzer doesn’t stop work at 5:00pm. When he gets home from a long day analyzing financial services data, he trolls websites looking for fun data to make into charts and graphs. Anzer hit the jackpot yesterday when he stumbled upon an electronic version of Grafton’s police log.He told Garlic Reporters, “After crunching the data, I thought I’d see the majority of officer time spent on underage drinking stings, murder, theft and counterfeiting that have made recent headlines… but instead I found that the top transgression in town is a motor vehicle stop.” His conclusion: The big crime problem in Grafton is speeding and that Grafton is lucky to have enormous police speed trapping resources.
Anzer has offered more detailed crime trends to local Police Chief for a small cut of the motor vehicle stop fees (which he calculated at upwards of $4,000.) He quickly followed that offer with “just kidding” for fear of being a statistic in next week’s log.
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This is really cool. I believe the real number involving driving should be 52 (add in those erratic drivers).
ReplyDeleteI wonder if the $4K in fees actually adds up to over $200K per year. I contend that we should charge more per transgression, so that the cost of policing is covered by the fines. Whaddya' think?
Good idea...but if we stop residents for speeding and charge them more to pay for the police to stop more residents...will it ever end?
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