Posted on 08/31/2015 8:31:00 AM PDT by Half Vast Conspiracy
I guess making pot legal freed up a lot of their time.
If they layoff the cops they are surely qualified to work for the IRS.
Some days the poor SOB would be out there for ten hours COMPLAINING that "everyone is wearing their seatbelt".
This is good to know, I might be driving thru Colorado next month.
They could emulate the town of Pastoria in the Rockford Files episode where the mayor, chief, DA, and the tow truck operator would set up targets coming in, hit them with trumped up big charges and accept a bribe for getting the charges tossed with a blackmail option.
Great episode - Pastoria Prime Pick.
C-470 is a piggy bank for Jefferson county. That SFW Sherriff has revenuers out all the time.
They could emulate the town of Pastoria in the Rockford Files episode where the mayor, chief, DA, and the tow truck operator would set up targets coming in, hit them with trumped up big charges and accept a bribe for getting the charges tossed with a blackmail option.
Great episode - Pastoria Prime Pick.
They could emulate the town of Pastoria in the Rockford Files episode where the mayor, chief, DA, and the tow truck operator would set up targets coming in, hit them with trumped up big charges and accept a bribe for getting the charges tossed with a blackmail option.
Great episode - Pastoria Prime Pick.
Reminds me of this hilarious Fella. Mayor of some speedtrap town in Texas
“The real-life Boss Hogg faces his legal hazards”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1658561/posts
but in 2013 ticket revenues generated $621,099 – more than half of Mountain View’s municipal budget
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That amount would just pay salaries and benefits of their 10 cops.
This must be the place where the scene in Blazing Saddles had the toll booth!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbWg-mozGsU
In Georgia, if a police or sheriff's department obtains more than 35% of it's revenue from speeding fines, it loses it's radar operation permit. Fines for speeding in excess of 20 mph over the posted limit are excluded from the calculation.
What a great show that was.
-— “Traffic tickets in Campo comprised 93 percent of the town’s budget in 2013. That was more than $300,000 for the town of 107 people. -—
That’s old school. Do they throw you in the pokey if you don’t pay up?
Here in the northeast municipalities are dependent on this nonsense; remember the stink when cops slowed their ticket-writing to protest against DeBlasio? People were shocked at the revenue figures tossed about at the time; most cops here are revenue agents, nothing less. In my town people would complain that the street sweeper wouldn’t even have its brush down when it passed; it was simply putting on a show to justify tickets...
One of the best ever.
Have you ever seen an earlier series called Nichols? I like it a lot.
Those towns and many like them should be burned to the ground. That is organised crime. The bad thing about it is that any warrant issued would be honored anywhere. If you are an officer working for those criminal org shame on you. Good riddance if you push the wrong buttons on the wrong guy.
Damned law abiders!
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