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That "efficiency department" wants 25% over the debt amount AND unlimited usage of the collected data until it's "commercially viable". The latter part is especially outrageous.

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Any idea how much simple tickets cost after compounding for months/years? They'll end up costing multiples of the original. This sounds like a win for both sides.

Tickets should not be used for profit generation. It's a form of punishment and determent.

Plus, for how long +25%? For the time it paid off the system or perpetually? Is there a price on other "commercial" usage of collected data?

Nobody said it's a 'lease to own' situation with the system. Never mind that it includes computing time and server-side calculations and database access so chances are it is a system that is simply being 'leased' to the police at the cost of 25% added value to all transactions made possible through it.

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