The People vs The District of Columbia

So I was just reading about DC’s traffic ticket amnesty program and saw this part of the FAQs:

“Q: Why aren’t tickets issued after January 1, 2010 included in amnesty? (Updated Aug 2, 2011)
A: Ticket amnesty is an incentive program for older, outstanding ticket payments which cannot be successfully collected using the District’s current collections activity. Without an incentive program, it is likely the majority of these older tickets would remain uncollected. Based on an analysis of our records, no incentive is needed for tickets issued after January 1, 2010 due to our current collections activity.”

Is it just me, or does anyone else read it as: “well, we really have no way of collecting that money so you might as well keep it”?

So what’s the incentive again?