A struggling economy is having many local communities come up with creative ways to increase their budgets, and for many that means having police issue more traffic tickets.

According to Car and Driver magazine, 11 municipalities in the Detroit area have seen the number of tickets issued increase by 90 percent or more since 2002.

While most law enforcement would say that the issuing of tickets is not a way to make money for a community, James Tignanelli, president of the Police Officers Association of Michigan says that’s just not that case.

“A lot of police chiefs will tell you the goal is to have nobody speeding through their community, but heaven forbid if it should actually happen – they’d be out of money,” Tignanelli told the magazine.

But the increase in police issuing moving violations is not limited to Michigan.

Even in the tiny state of Connecticut, police issued 10,500 more tickets in 2008 than the previous year – meaning $327,000 more for the state, according to the Republican American.

But unlike Tignanelli, Connecticut says there is no connection between the state of the economy and the increase in tickets.

“There is no relation at all,” state police spokesperson Lieutenant J. Paul Vance told the newspaper.

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