Years ago I was pulled over by an officer in a small town and he asked to search my car. I only consented because I was young and stupid and felt intimidated by him. I never did drugs or drank. In fact I was in business attire. Well I had done laundry a few days before and had spilt some of the white powdered laundry detergent in the floorboard behind my seat. He picks it up and says I’m going to have to test this to see if it’s cocaine. If you smelled the stuffed it was very obvious what it was. I said fine do it but he never did. He let me go probably realizing what an idiot he’d been. Funny thing is I was working with a former retired DPS trooper in that area and he called him and told him who I was. Never had trouble around there after that and even got to razz the officer about it later when I worked on iinvestigations in that area. Those small town cops can pretty much get away with whatever they want uf no one holds them accountable.
The whole game is tied to cash generation for the city. They need to generate X amount of cash per quarter, and your career (ever how long or brief)....is attached to that fact. If you forced each town to admit in public how much they make per month...folks would start asking questions. I think public video-taping is probably changing the game....but we need each state to tap cities and force them end the game.