article_snippet.sent: Yet we've foisted that duty on the police as an ersatz collection agency.  
article_snippet.sent: That's right, the same police charged with arresting dangerous criminals are also dragooned into bill collection for the courts.  
article_snippet.sent: When the same police charged with arresting dangerous criminals run a driver's name on a routine traffic stop and a deadbeat arrest warrant comes up, those same police who are armed with Tasers and firearms are suddenly tasked with arresting a guy for failing to pay a guy bills.
article_snippet.sent: Are we comfortable as a society using an armed police force, empowered to use deadly force, to aid in collecting these bills?  