"Either be friends with a police officer or pay us $2k for a license plate frame and you can get out of tickets" both very much has something to do with wealth and is incredibly corrupt.
do you really have to be wealthy to have access to $2k? While you can argue this is a corrupt system, you dont have to drive a high end two door sports car to have access to it.
Seriously? This is a pretty worrisome disconnect. Having 2k to blow on something like this is almost the definition of wealth to me and is very certainly not fair or productive to society to have things like this.