If the village was smart they would disband the police force and just give them jobs as village revenue collectors.
Because that is all they are, a sham police force.
Ask them if they would consider installing a sufficient number of speed bumps along their “problem areas” to make them safe, and when they scoff and say “that’s ridiculous”, you know they’re running a highway robbery outfit under the color of law.
I guess the “village” is too broke to buy a 25 mph zone ahead sign. 25, really?
“the definition”. screw the specifics, he knows they are running a speed trap.
I hope the surronding community builds a road that bypasses this little sh1th0le village entirely and starves them of their tcket racket revenue.
I’d imagine if somebody were to start a GoFundMe account to put up billboards just outside the village of Brice saying “Notorious speed trap ahead - Outlandish $125.00 tickets - Slow down to 25 mph now!” they’d raise enough money to do it. People have always hated highway robbery.
Run a convoy of steam powered tractors through the town for a week.
I want to know the three cops’ salaries.
Chief Bauchmoyer responded, “They absolutely have the right to have their own police department.”
Evasions don't get any clearer than that.
I destroyed one of these “sudden” speed traps (where the Speed Limit suddenly and unexpectedly is dropped very close to the higher speed as you enter the town).
I got a ticket at 1:30 AM in Bridgeville, Delaware as we were returning from Rehobeth Beach. The town’s outermost speed limit was about 35-40 MPH but then within less than a block it dropped to 25 MPH with a cop attached to it. Also, the signs were placed in a poorly lit area so that you could miss them if you were unfamiliar with the area.
Wanted to fight the ticket but they rigged how it was written and priced to discourage out of town travelers who they caught by the score, from coming back many miles to fight it in court.
Well, I paid the ticket but got my revenge by writing a column-sized letter to the state newspaper telling everyone where it happened, what happened, and that I would never come back to Delaware beaches again.
Also I would warn our extended family who had a beach house up there about the speed traps and asked others who had suffered from the “money trap” to boycott the beaches.
The newspaper actually asked me to write the letter in a column format, and they printed it across the whole page on a Thursday. My sister-in-law went through the town on Friday and the speed signs were changed (wider spacing etc), but the damage had been done.
People avoided the speed trap by slowing down before even getting near the signs, thus depriving the little thiefdom of their ill gotten gains (Alderman Brown, you did that to your own town because you were a nasty SOB, and got what you deserved).
Also, a new state bypass before the town took away about 80% of its traffic, thus reducing any chances of them getting the kind of speedtrap money they had done before.
Besides the personal satisfaction of screwing the town out of ill-gotten money, I also got some satisfaction of showing them that you don’t f*ck with a longtime investigative journalist with a degree in Police Science.
My Traffic Patrol and Administration teacher taught us well in the ways of the “money” schemes police departments used to fill county/city coffers, such as “quotas” for specific types of offenses on an assigned basis.
They also use their ticket power for minor problems such as cracked, broken or burnt-out operating lights, many of which the driver never knew about, esp. if it was the rear lights. The police have the discretion to give warnings but they don’t. Their local governments need the money to pay for their profligrate spending and boondoogle schemes.
Publicizing really blatantly unfair ticketing practices is the only way a citizen can strike back. The media is usually open to publishing a story that shows a bureaucratic unfair or unethical practice. DO IT!
25 mph on a highway is a speed trap. The only excuse would be if the road narrows and there is a lot of pedestrian traffic or a school.
Speed trap. I looked on Google maps. You’d never even guess you were passing through a village. Ironically the local store at the edge of town is a Speedway.
Screw these people. I pay for those roads too, in one way or another.
We have a town that people drive through on their way to work, so they decreased the speed limit from 35 incrementally downwards and it is now 25 mph all the way through, and they enforce.
I go out of my way to drive through their town just to piss them off. Big Hillary supporting town, too.
Try driving Rt. 301 in Florida. It’s an area known for speed traps with confusing speed limits.
I bet there are zero accidents there.
Catching so many means the limit on that road should be increased.
Localities tend to set speed limits about 20% lower than what traffic engineers recommend.
End rolling tax collection.
There is a sign on the side of a Florida road that says “Speed Trap, Lawty, 4.5 miles Ahead”
Terrace Park Ohio once had the same reputation. The courts forced them to place signs on the main road passing through the village stating “Reduced Speed Ahead - 35 MPH” and a step down in speed limits on Route 50 from 50 MPH to 40 MPH to 35 MPH instead of the sudden and unannounced 50 MPH to 35 MPH that was the hook for so many speeding tickets.
Does this town’s main road(s) serve as a highway bypass? If so, then I get it - ticket outsiders looking to avoid the highway.
Locals should know “The police here write 12 tickets a day. I really shouldn’t speed”.
4270 per year and no arrests means one thing: this jefe has, with absolute certainty, allowed impaired drivers to go on with just a ticket.