Fire the chief.Prosecute if laws broken.
Reduce the police by one position ,that is elevate the best officer to chief.
Evaluate the need for police and number of officers.
Institute cost controls like rescheduling remaining officers so no overtime,no SWAT training ,etc.
Audit each officer’s ticket to check if tickets were valid.
The goal is to keep from punishing officers who spoke up about bad policing.
People complain about speed tickets yet I see the majority of drivers exceeding the limits everywhere I drive .And I see many crashes with fatalities because of excess speed.
I’ve driven more than a million miles over the last two decades. I have seen several accidents. Some had fatalities; most didn’t. The only one I remember that was caused by excess speed was a single vehicle spin out in the rain on a curved ramp; the car went into the grass and no one was hurt. Most accidents are caused by drivers that don’t pay attention to what’s going on around them.
Speeding tickets have less to do with safety and more to do with revenue generation.
And stay out of the left lane, please.
Waldo has a population of 1000 people. Seems like a lot of cops for such a tiny town.
The revenue it gets from tickets is used to pay cops’ salaries which are used to generate tickets.
If they weren’t running the speed traps it seems unlikely they’d need so many cops.
The problem is, as you can see up thread, this place has been a known speed trap for years. All current officers signed up knowing full well what they were getting into.