Seatbelt laws are created by the insurance companies to make the Insurance companies have a better bottom line.

If you don't want to wear a MC helemet what do you have to do (in TX)? Pay the insurance company an extra premium.

Seat belt ticket are not revenue generators. As said previously, most of the MAX $50 fine goes to the State, the rest goes to court cost. The city/county/state then has to pay overtime for the officer to go to court on the ticket.

Individual officers dont care how much revenue the city/county/state gets. The officer sees nothing by writing um-teen tickets. The department he works for sees only a tiny bit of any revenue generated by the courts, if any.

The law enforcement branch of any local government are always the "stepchild" of that goverment. They get the hand-me-downs, works dangerously short staffed, basically $hit on by the governing body. Thats why we dont give a rats a$$ if the city/county/state makes any money off of us.

I haven't written an adult a seatbelt ticket for not buckling themselves up in 14 years (read: never). I always exercised my allowed discression and issued a warning, usually verbal.

I see Insurance companies screw people all the time. Screw 'em.

PS, there are no quotas either.