You can get a traffic violation even if you do nothing wrong, I'm currently facing a traffic misdemeanor right now and even though there's actual video evidence proving I'm innocent the DA is refusing to drop the charges and is instead demanding I accept a plea deal. Plenty of people in my situation, guilty or not, would take the deal, hell I was tempted to take it, just to get this annoyance to end.
I looked this up. Over half of the ones that were convicted of a crime were recipients of a fine and no jail time for things like traffic violations.
This is a pretty bad representation of what actually happened
Randomly sample 300 White Midwesterners and I guarantee you won't have a 60% moving violation rate, without even getting into rape and murder.
You can get a traffic violation even if you do nothing wrong, I'm currently facing a traffic misdemeanor right now and even though there's actual video evidence proving I'm innocent the DA is refusing to drop the charges and is instead demanding I accept a plea deal. Plenty of people in my situation, guilty or not, would take the deal, hell I was tempted to take it, just to get this annoyance to end.