2nd draft
ISSUE: Cop Blocked
[validity]high corruption, has cars, high amount of tourism
[desc] Tourists are complaining that checkpoints introduced by the @@DEMONYM@@ Police Force across major roads in @@NAME@@ are really an excuse for cash-strapped police departments to fine them for obscure traffic laws.
[option] "I was stopped six times on my way here!" complains tired tourist @@RANDOMNAME@@, wearing a 'I ❤ @@CAPITAL@@' t-shirt. "I had to pay a fine for having wrong-coloured headlamps, and another for having slightly deflated tyres. How was I supposed to know that this was @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ law? Why don't you give us tourists the benefit of the doubt and grant us total immunity from these trifling trivial traffic laws?"
[effect] tourists find parking anywhere is fine without parking fines
[option]"These checkpoints are important in disrupting criminal activities and ensuring the roads of @@NAME@@ are free from unroadworthy vehicles," explains chief police officer @@RANDOMNAME@@ while writing up @@RANDOMFIRSTNAME_1@@ for public nuisance. "Ignorance of the law by tourists is no excuse. In fact, we could raise even more money by doubling fines and increasing our fine collection quotas. With your help, we can give a much needed pay rise for our officers."
[effect] crime doesn't pay but being a police officer does
[option]"I never really understood why we need to dedicate significant police resources to traffic enforcement," opines the Minister for Reducing Red Tape, while shredding a tome of statutes. "If you look at the net impact to society of a murder compared to speeding, then there really is no comparison. Abolish all of these traffic laws, and everyone will be much happier now that driving from A to B can be done in record time."
[effect] overheated shredders cook the traffic law books