Like zealous cops on rural highways, the Coast Guard helps pay its own way by slapping fines on law-breakers.

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Although the bright yellow boxes do help law-abiding drivers keep to the limit, law-breakers manipulate the system by braking when they see a camera.

ECONOMIST: Speed cameras

Officers undergo intense training, often using high-speed driving simulators to learn how to navigate the autobahn and chase down law breakers.

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There needs to be a re-emergence of common sense policies towards young offenders combined with the imaginative use of social penalties for law breakers.

BBC: Is youth crime out of control?