It literally does take away from violent crime investigation! Remember, I'm not making a moral argument about the legitimacy of traffic fines. In fact, that's one of our big issues in Oak Park. I'm saying that police departments make prioritization decisions, and Flock cameras structurally undo those decisions by throwing alerts on cars (which would not otherwise have been curbed) that produce warrant arrests.

The key thing to understand is that an arrest eats half an OPPD officer's work day, so if OPPD is arresting someone, you want the juice to be worth the squeeze.

Your traffic cops would otherwise be participating in murder investigations? My understanding is that these are different specializations and they don't overlap.

No real objection to "the data source is bad," but I think the solution there is improve the data source rather than willful blindness.