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If you have money, you pay a ticket, you're done. if you don't, then you have to go through this sort of kafka-esque process of warrants and arrest -- >> reporter: the state also passed a bill, making it difficult to force payments from people who don't have the money. following all this, the numbers have dropped dramatically. for instance, take st. ann, one of the municipalities arch city defenders is suing. the city denied any wrongdoing and believes its traffic enforcement reduced accidents and did not racially profile drivers. in 2014, st. ann brought in about $3.3 million from fines and f...

And arrested. >> the state passed a bill making it difficult to force payments from people who don't have the money. following all this, the numbers have dropped dramatically. for instance, take st. anne one of the municipalities afternoon city defenders is suing. the city denying wrong doing and believes traffic enforcement reduced accidents and did not racially profile drivers. in 2014 st. ann brought in about $3.3 million from fines and fees. by 2019 it was $426,000. an 87% drop. >> are these numbers pretty consistent that many dropped about 80 to 90%. >> yeah, at the high end 80, 90%. some...

Safe act opponents say they will fight all the way to the supreme court. >> spent $426,000 on the lawsuit so far. we'll spend a million dollars if we have to. >> reporter: a new york state police spokeswoman tells fox once the ammo background system is up and running, hay will be looking at am -- they will be looking at purchases that are consistent with criminal activity. but there is a time limit on how long this info can be kept in the database. the law says data collected cannot be stored for more than a year. heather? heather: all right. david lee miller from our new york newsroom, thank ...

426,000 nationwide. and the junk kies are very different today. >> i went undercover. that's me in the beard and bandanna and found that doech deals are easy to come by.

Now it's up to 426,000 nationwide. and the junkies today are very different than they were during the bad old days, the 1960s and 70s. before we need the new breed of suburban addicts, let's go back into horaldo's vault. >> you can never get a divorce from junk. only a separation. that's how it is. >> to get a close up idea of the origin, price and purity of the doping dealt on the streets in the united states, i went undercover and found that dope deals were easy to come back. they first involved a reluctant trip inside a building as we followed a street sales man into one of the drugstores. ...