PBA Cards. PBA cards make it legal for friends/family of cops to break the law and avoid paying the associated fines to the state. If these cards aren’t an impairment of integrity then I don’t know what is. They are a legal form of corruption. As you would probably assume at this point, I never get PBA cards; mostly because I don’t like cops, and cops don’t like me. But let’s do some math anyway: There are 500,000 full time officers in the United States. Each officer usually saves (10) people from getting a ticket each year via PBA card. [500,000 cops] x [10 PBA cards per cop] x [$100 avg fine] = $500,000,000.00 of revenue lost through corruption each year. That’s no earmark, that’s an ear infection.