If you slowly moved lowering patrol and move up massive fines and prison sentences to get a cultural shift from what you can get away with from the coppers to what you can actually get away with. Those entry years till people got it would not be fun.
You cannot just stop patrol, it would be like Oregon legalizing drugs
Well...........let's look at what the UK is doing. They have traffic CAMS EVERYWHERE. Not just for speed violators........EVERYTHING. Seat belt violations, pic of you not wearing seat belt.........DING!! VIOLATION. Holding your cellphone.........DING!! VIOLATION. Etc, etc
Sadly, I see that happening here in the US. Legislators see that as a way to make money of We, The People.
London has a tax for coming into and out of the city for EVERYONE, not just commercial vehicles and taxis. NYC wants to do the same...........money maker!!
A MassHole legislator thinks it WOULD BE A GREAT IDEA to put toll booths up on 93 and 95 at the NH/MA border..........that caused a huge up roar and now they are back pedaling. I have a rule.........I don't go to MASS for work. Mass State Police w/ DOT now have tail pipe sniffers. You get stopped, first thing they do is stuff that sniffer into your pipe. Your NOX levels are too high?? Oh, you must have deleted your system. Truck is red flagged, out of service, needs to towed, then proof of repairs and meeting emissions levels, huge fine.............federally funded crap.
Full disclosure..........I grew up in Mass., worked most of my life in Mass, had to get out.........HAD TO!!!LOL