My instant reaction was 'of course they cost it!' I would be very surprised if there were a firewall of any sort in place. Especially, y'know, in the "current economic climate". People are driven by their budgets, even the police.

And if you do not have enough resource (in terms of officers, for example) to enforce all laws equally, what other yardstick for evaluating one enforcement against another do you have? Finance is a simple, amoral*, decidedly measurable way of doing so.



*Finance, amoral? Yeah right.