re: Small Alabama town draws drivers into “legal black hole.”

A big Crotch Springs or Golden Meadow

AAA used to pay for this sign near me... plot twist, this bumfrick police department got shut the frick down for their frickery. Took a couple decades, but it finally happened.

I think that stretch of highway 20 with Trinity, Hillsboro, and Courtland used to be bad with cops running radar. I don’t drive through there much anymore but one of those three places always had someone pulled over when drove it multiple times a week.

It's sheer dumb luck I never got popped in the 6 years I drive back and forth from Baton Rouge to Shreveport on 190 and I-49.

I am not what you would call a slow driver.

LSP and Hurst, TX PD have both gotten some cash from me though

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It is complete BS they have that armored vehicle

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meth.

These speed traps are all in dying towns that frankly deserve to die.

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Back in the day it was Wilmer, speed trap capital of Alabama

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Creola (AL) is/was another notorious speed trap.

Don’t blame the cops. Blame these punk arse mayors and town councils who all want to run their little fiefdoms as though they were governor or president.

Forest Hill comes to mind.

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This is why I wish conservative libertarians would have gotten on board with “defund the police.” They’re a vestigial enemy of the people.

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see i cant get behind a complete defund. I think there has to be a change in culture. I want police, like the beat cop, especially in large cities. I want them investigating violent criminals......

but i dont want to all the bullshite the cops pull. i dont want them funding whole towns with tickets, i dont want them having swat teams (except cities over 250k), i dont want them having tanks, i dont want no knock warrents, i dont want them being able to use civil assett forfieture etc

to make these things go away and stop making the most violent criminals the wealthiest we must

1) decriminalize drugs ( all drugs, if you want to discuss why, start a new thread)

2) outlaw no knock warrents

3) outlaw civil asset forfieture

4) rid the country of the patriot act

5) on a state level, local police are not allowed to write tickets for anything under 15 mph over the limit on state highways and interstates. and to write that ticket their must be video proof that it was that car you radared.

6) on a state level, limit small town police forces to a per captia bases...essentially any town under 10k needs to have a very limited police force.

7) we need to ramp up policing in places like nola. preferrablly this would come from a federal level

8) require way more training and better pay for officers so they understand what the job really is and you get a better group of people.

9) all interactions need to be on film

10) no taking cars home

as much as dspise the police i recognize they mainly deal with the scum of this country. its no excuse but their is a reason they are on edge and feel they are at war with the public at all times.

but the whole back the blue and thin blue line....that shite has to go, now.