I’m calling official B.S. on this guy. Sorry, but the cops just don’t pull over innocent people on a monthly basis. You know there has to be more to the story, and “The Root” certainly won’t tell us.
It depends how important fines for various trifling traffic offenses are to the city treasury. There are numbers of (albeit mostly small) towns and cities that derive a significant part of their operating revenues from fines and collateral remissions from traffic citations. Here in the swamp state the fine city of Washington, Louisiana is particularly notorious for this practice as are a number of towns west of Lake Charles who have annexed a small sliver of parish land that interstate runs so their LEOs can pull motorists over for such offenses as lane change without a signal or most popular ‘following too closely’.
I had a ugly old car that I owned in a wealth area north of Chicago. The paint was fading, there was a lot of rust. But the car was generally working, lights worked the exhaust was not too loud. I got pulled over every two weeks. I got tickets for being 19 feet from a cross walk when the law was twenty feet. The car collected tickets, and I was stopped in my own home town all the time. I sold the car, bought a BMW parked it in the same space, drove it the same and I never got a stopped or got a ticket. I am white. If they show you his car, you will know why he is stopped.