The number of speeding tickets issued by the Florida Highway Patrol has dropped three years in a row.
This may be because the agency is dealing with a shortage of troopers.
Col. Gene Spaulding says the agency has lost 993 troopers (nearly half of its workforce) to retirement or resignation since 2010. Spaulding says the agency does what it can to provide public safety, patrolling areas that include Interstates 4, 75 and 95 in the nation's third most populated state that also doubles as a tourist destination.
The Miami Herald cites low pay as a possible reason for high turnover.
A starting trooper in Florida makes about $34,000, the same wage that's been in effect since 2005.
In Mississippi, starting pay for a trooper is $38,000 and $47,000 in Louisiana.