Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature from the Institute for Justice.
Just in time for a Labor Day weekend road trip, a new report reveals hundreds of America’s worst speed traps. Governing magazine has identified 840 municipalities that are “addicted to fines”—that is, they secured at least a tenth of their budget from fines and forfeitures or raised more than $100 in court revenue per capita. (The national averages are 2% and $10 respectively.) Unsurprisingly,…