POLICING FOR PROFIT presents a startling, yet timely exposE demonstrating that some U.S. metropolitan police departments are more interested in running a business than being a presence on the streets "to protect and serve"--and they're getting away with it--measuring success by both ticket and arrest "productivity." But they are not alone Such police department revenue-producing ventures can only be achieved in partnership with greedy courts and unscrupulous proprietary interests.

To make matters worse, in Florida, state law actually incentivized "policing for profit." Beginning in...