Ticket Fixing

Ticket fixing is the practice in which a public official destroys or dismisses a pending traffic ticket as a favor to a friend, family member or colleague, most often documented among police officers who fix tickets at the request of other officers, though judges have also been accused of it. Some police unions, including New York Citys Police Benevolent Association, have defended the practice as a long standing professional courtesy rather than a crime, but it is unpopular with the general public and illegal in most jurisdictions.