osxmatt Posted January 19, 2022 Share Posted January 19, 2022 Police in this tiny Alabama town suck drivers into legal ‘black hole’ WWW.AL.COM Using unmarked police cars and uniforms without insignia, the town with no traffic lights collected $487 in fines and forfeitures in 2020 for every man, woman and child. Total town... Quote Months of research and dozens of interviews by AL.com found that Brookside’s finances are rocket-fueled by tickets and aggressive policing. In a two-year period between 2018 and 2020 Brookside revenues from fines and forfeitures soared more than 640 percent and now make up half the city’s total income. Quote The town of 1,253 just north of Birmingham reported just 55 serious crimes to the state in the entire eight year period between 2011 and 2018 – none of them homicide or rape. But in 2018 it began building a police empire, hiring more and more officers to blanket its six miles of roads and mile-and-a-half jurisdiction on Interstate 22. Quote By 2020 Brookside made more misdemeanor arrests than it has residents. It went from towing 50 vehicles in 2018 to 789 in 2020 – each carrying fines. That’s a 1,478% increase, with 1.7 tows for every household in town. Quote When Jones was hired as chief in 2018, he was the only full-time police officer, he said in sworn testimony for a lawsuit filed against him and the city. By last summer, he said in a deposition, Brookside had hired eight additional full-time officers and several part-timers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finaljedi Posted January 19, 2022 Share Posted January 19, 2022 Time to dissolve the town and make it county/township land. There was a garbage speed trap of a town near me that is no longer a town now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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