Sounds like it should be Waverly, Mexico.
1 posted on
09/10/2007 10:03:11 AM PDT by
VRing
To: VRing
A fine is simply an involuntary donation to the police department. They’re going to get your money either way, you might as well get a tax deduction out of it.
2 posted on
09/10/2007 10:09:12 AM PDT by
T.Smith
To: VRing
They put so many other words in quotes, why not the word “voluntary” here?
One form of justice for the rich, another for the poor, it would seem.
3 posted on
09/10/2007 10:09:47 AM PDT by
mvpel
(Michael Pelletier)
To: VRing
This is not America ... it is some banana republic poorly disguised as America
4 posted on
09/10/2007 10:11:49 AM PDT by
clamper1797
(Thompson - Hunter 2008 ... in any order)
To: VRing
In Mexico, that would be called “bribery”.
5 posted on
09/10/2007 10:13:01 AM PDT by
Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
(Want authentic 1st century Christianity? Visit a local, New Testament Independent Baptist church!)
To: VRing
Hmmmm.............sounds fair............ :-)
6 posted on
09/10/2007 10:16:12 AM PDT by
stephenjohnbanker
( Hunter/Thompson/Thompson/Hunter in 08! "Read my lips....No new RINO's" !!)
To: VRing
At least these cops aren’t trying to hide the fact that they really are just a bunch of over-empowered meter maid revenuers.
That’s about as nice as I can make it.
7 posted on
09/10/2007 10:22:09 AM PDT by
American_Centurion
(No, I don't trust the government to automatically do the right thing.)
To: VRing
So where was the DA, or Prosecuting Attorney as they call them in Ohio? If the PA signed off on these deals, it is bad. If the police just filed lesser charges in Municipal Court, so as to deprive the County Court, and the PA, of jurisdiction, it is worse.
Unless he was OK with the deal, the local elected prosecutor who never got a chance to prosecute these DUI cases in County Court because the City PD was paid off and filed them in Municipal Court, ought to be investigating this practice.
8 posted on
09/10/2007 10:25:58 AM PDT by
Pilsner
To: traviskicks
11 posted on
09/10/2007 10:28:55 AM PDT by
VRing
(Happiness is a perfect sling bruise.)
To: VRing
The family of someone killed by a drunk driver in that town should keep this in mind!
13 posted on
09/10/2007 10:31:59 AM PDT by
hophead
( "Enjoy Every Sandwich")
To: VRing
Nearly 100 drunken-driving suspects in this southern Ohio town avoided convictions or jail time last year after making voluntary $1,000 donations to the police department, county records show.Heads should roll.
14 posted on
09/10/2007 10:32:58 AM PDT by
MEGoody
(Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
To: VRing
I can’t even remember the last time I drove a significant distance without passing at least a couple policemen taking donations while camped out behind billboards and under overpasses.
From the victim’s perspective, whether that donation goes to the officer making the stop, the police department, the county court, or their insurance company is a distinction without difference.
15 posted on
09/10/2007 10:38:00 AM PDT by
CGTRWK
To: VRing
Isn’t Pike a blue county?
18 posted on
09/10/2007 11:04:10 AM PDT by
HIDEK6
To: VRing
Nice. At least the powers that be are being open and honest about what they are there for.
35 posted on
09/11/2007 10:11:02 PM PDT by
Clinging Bitterly
(Oregon - a pro-militia and firearms state that looks just like Afghanistan .)
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