[Darksheare]

Route 23 in new jersey has sections that exist solely to generate ticket revenue for a patchwork quilt of townships.

[NTHockey]

>>”We are here to help to make sure there is no longer a government serving itself and not the people,” Bradley said. “We were going to remove the city if the people didn’t reform it.”<<

Get somebody, anybody to do this to Versailles on the Potomac. PLEASE.

[Gen.Blather]

Twenty years ago Florida’s Highway Patrol was a competent top-notch police organization. Today they exist solely to generate revenue. Anyplace in Florida where the speed drops ten miles an hour, usually, for no visible reason, is a speed trap. It’s not about safety, it’s about revenue.

I have lost all respect for these revenuers.

[NTHockey]

There used to be a whole host of speed traps in the South. There was an LEO who used to sit at the bottom of a I-85 hill in NC. Ludowici, GA used to ticket drivers going 26 MPH in a 25 MPH zone on US 301. Sanford and Kissimee, FL on US 17 were also bad speed traps.

[EEGator]

I got a ticket from those scumbags the first time I went to Gainesville. They sit hidden at the light at 301 and 18. It’s one of those 65 then 55 then 45 dumps. This s***hole and Waldo should be burned and salted.

[Flick Lives]

Governments once provided protection from highway robbers. Now they are the highway robbers.

[Celtic Conservative]

I know Michigan has its problems but fortunately speed traps don’t seem to be one of them. Probably due to the ubiquitous signs in MI that warn of a speed change just ahead. I live in a sort of touristy area that could easily rake in money hand over fist by doing this, but they don’t. there are plenty of citiots (city+idiot= citiot) they could put the serious butthurt on but don’t. I hope it’s enlightened self interest by the village councils.

CC

[SeeSharp]

This all reminds me of Kendleton, Tx. The Texas Attorney General’s office yanked their city charter back in the 80’s for being an incorrigible speed trap. When they looked into the city’s finances they discovered that the Chief of Police, the Mayor, and the Justice of the Peace, who all just happened to be in the same family, were simply pocketing most of the take.

[coolbreeze]

Harrington, DE raises 110% of it’s Police Dept. budget by being a speed trap on US 13.

[ThanhPhero]

50 years ago the National #1 speed trap city was Lawtey which is not far from Hampton. Lawtey had movable speed limit signs. When the cop pulled you for speeding sơmeone would be moving the sign from ahead of you to behind you. The signs were set in sockets. The state finally shut that racket down but it just moved to another town. With Hampton brought to heel it will move to another nearby town. It's an Alachua thing.

[VRW Conspirator]

Bahstids! Hampton, Lawtey, Baldwin. Thieves. Scoundrels.

[VRW Conspirator]

State lawmakers Friday dropped their threat to dissolve Hampton, a 1-square-mile city located an hour's drive south of Jacksonville.

That was stupid. Should have dissolved them as an example.

[MuttTheHoople]

During this present Obama Depression, you’re seeing more and more speed traps, Cameras at stoplights, etc. The tax base is shrinking, and police won’t let you go one mile an hour over the speed limit.

[Scoutmaster]

The National Motorists Association maintains www.speedtrap.org and says the two worst speed traps in the U.S. are in Flower Mound, Texas, and Livonia, Michigan.

The NMA reports that the District of Columbia, South Carolina, Michigan, Iowa and Tennessee were the worst states/districts in the U.S. for speed traps.

Trapster.com has an interactive map on both its website and its mobile-phone application that shows the hot speed traps throughout the country

[stboz]

Try Ft. Sumner, NM. The legacy of Billy the Kid lives on.

[TLI]

Texas Top 40.

The infamous Westlake trap is probably still number 1.

Rank	City	2008 population	Traffic tickets	% of all tickets that are traffic tickets	Total ticket revenue	Total ticket revenue per citizen	Total tickets per citizen
1	Westlake	211	71664	81%	$8,919,460	$42,272	340
2	Estelline	155	24269	88%	$2,873,199	$18,537	157
3	Domino	50	2656	99%	$262,660	$5,253	53
4	Montgomery	596	25523	66%	$3,116,988	$5,230	43
5	Martindale	1148	44422	98%	$5,496,670	$4,788	39
6	Cuney	147	4598	100%	$678,847	$4,618	31
7	Palmer	2258	81653	93%	$10,144,689	$4,493	36
8	Rio Vista	818	31508	95%	$3,239,383	$3,960	39
9	Riesel	1013	25021	92%	$3,911,628	$3,861	25
10	Patton Village	1483	52752	98%	$5,570,563	$3,756	36
11	Mount Enterprise	543	16379	99%	$2,023,814	$3,727	30
12	Pantego	2381	41830	53%	$8,763,955	$3,681	18
13	Wilmer	3576	88731	90%	$12,610,497	$3,526	25
14	Dalworthington	2412	60167	66%	$8,320,636	$3,450	25
15	Lott	675	11454	85%	$2,139,228	$3,169	17
16	Lavon	423	8255	85%	$1,319,644	$3,120	20
17	Chillicothe	687	14420	94%	$2,127,266	$3,096	21
18	Waskom	2137	48647	98%	$6,604,962	$3,091	23
19	Shenandoah	2002	67581	97%	$6,004,139	$2,999	34
20	Mustang Ridge	933	25329	90%	$2,786,746	$2,987	27
21	Ferris	2566	46764	89%	$7,591,029	$2,958	18
22	Covington	302	4192	62%	$886,511	$2,935	14
23	Arcola	1230	32449	97%	$3,589,616	$2,918	26
24	Northlake	2036	40651	93%	$5,763,918	$2,831	20
25	Rice	980	18346	64%	$2,708,749	$2,764	19
26	Zavalla	665	15499	96%	$1,816,084	$2,731	23
27	Magnolia	1249	35035	86%	$3,391,091	$2,715	28
28	Alvarado	4188	83348	79%	$11,134,344	$2,659	20
29	Brownsboro	837	17763	91%	$2,203,938	$2,633	21
30	Driscoll	802	10353	71%	$2,092,793	$2,609	13
31	Rhome	1051	21390	82%	$2,731,994	$2,599	20
32	Kemah	2498	45532	83%	$6,421,907	$2,571	18
33	Corrigan	1872	28235	83%	$4,548,346	$2,430	15
34	Coffee City	207	4566	80%	$499,477	$2,413	22
35	Itasca	1696	31532	85%	$4,040,627	$2,382	19
36	Eustace	925	14406	77%	$2,172,573	$2,349	16
37	Rogers	1138	18659	91%	$2,653,569	$2,332	16
38	Southside Place	1667	34778	80%	$3,782,674	$2,269	21
39	Calvert	1358	27655	97%	$3,070,273	$2,261	20
40	Selma	4632	86332	87%	$10,352,606	$2,235	19

. td/td