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re: Small Alabama town draws drivers into “legal black hole.”
Posted on 1/25/22 at 4:47 pm to Roll Tide Ravens
Posted on 1/25/22 at 4:47 pm to Roll Tide Ravens
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I mean, I may just be asking a question where there isn't one and they did mean "personnel," but it just seemed kind of weird.
It’s not weird when you understand the federal civil rights liability that is at stake here. This could cost the town, county, and state a lot of money. So they are saying it’s a “personnel matter” in the hopes no one will call them on it and ask for what should be publicly available personnel records.
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Posted on 1/25/22 at 5:00 pm to UndercoverBryologist
In my "long haired freaky people days", there was always a concern about a small town cop planting and finding a bag of weed when he pulled you over for a minor traffic infraction and then playing "Let's make a Deal" so you could get on with your travels. Maybe just me being a bit paranoid at the time, but I'm sure it happened more often than people realized. Damn hippies!
Posted on 1/25/22 at 5:01 pm to GREENHEAD22
can u say class action
Posted on 1/25/22 at 5:07 pm to TigersSEC2010
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even 50% of that is true, that entire department needs to be shut down.
It would be so delicious if the state found a semi legal set of laws to prosecute and send the entire police department to pound you in the arse prison for ten years
Posted on 1/25/22 at 5:24 pm to molsusports
Nothing is going to happen. The people there love the police. Outsiders get hammered.
Posted on 1/25/22 at 5:30 pm to Korkstand
lol dang 2008 i was 17. i actually was diggin through my old photobucket recently and saw that pic of the arse in question
This post was edited on 1/25/22 at 7:07 pm
Posted on 1/25/22 at 6:28 pm to ForeverEllisHugh
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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.
I sympathize with that view, but I've also lived places where I absolutely felt the cops were on my side. I felt that way about JPSO and I think the Dekalb Police are pretty similar.
Seems to be the city police departments that suck. I said that NOPD should have been disbanded after Katrina. They proved themselves to be cowards, thieves, and worse.
This post was edited on 1/25/22 at 6:29 pm
Posted on 1/25/22 at 8:04 pm to UndercoverBryologist
In a small town where serious crime is basically non-existent. How tf is it justifiable to have an entire Swat team and an armored truck.
I would say the citizens should be pissed about their tax dollars, but their tax dollars aren't nearly the biggest issue in this situation
I would say the citizens should be pissed about their tax dollars, but their tax dollars aren't nearly the biggest issue in this situation
Posted on 1/25/22 at 8:11 pm to QJenk
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I would say the citizens should be pissed about their tax dollars, but their tax dollars aren't nearly the biggest issue in this situation
The “tax” money used is the bullshite taxation of passers through. The sheriffs have built a little fiefdom and they control everything. The poors in town don’t realize that shite like this means people will avoid their town or keep their head down and get through and wait until till the next slightly better shite hole to stop and get gas or a hotel in.
An example of this was when I used to go up to North La for work. I could either shoot up 59 to shrevegas or head up through Cenla. I made that Cenla trip exactly once and got popped by a shithole town speed trap. I have gone that way exactly zero times since. shite holes like Golden Meadow at least have a lock on the only route. But just like other shitholes, I drove through them as fast as legally possible without stopping and giving their shithole any money.
Posted on 1/25/22 at 8:11 pm to QJenk
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In a small town where serious crime is basically non-existent. How tf is it justifiable to have an entire Swat team and an armored truck.
I would say the citizens should be pissed about their tax dollars, but their tax dollars aren't nearly the biggest issue in this situation
To be fair, there’s probably a sizable proportion of the town who are complicit in this. In small town operations like this, it is entirely possible that certain neighborhoods are never patrolled and cars known to belong to certain people are never pulled over.
Edit: These lucky locals justify it in their heads in that they pay very little tax to support a 10 man PD, and they are not the ones paying the fines. So they get a PD that most towns of 5,000 - 1,000 would envy but pay very little for it.
This post was edited on 1/26/22 at 1:00 am
Posted on 1/25/22 at 8:14 pm to UndercoverBryologist
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Brookside Police Chief Mike Jones resigns after AL.com report on traffic trap
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Well the shite has hit the fan for ole baw here
Posted on 1/27/22 at 11:35 pm to bbeck
State Rep is now wanting the Mayor, Prosecutor and Judge to all be removed from positions:
Brookside AL Latest
Brookside AL Latest
Posted on 1/27/22 at 11:38 pm to Thracken13
The saddest part of all of this may be that it took a damn viral news article spreading nationwide for these frickers to give a shite. This town wasn't some big well-kept secret.
This post was edited on 1/27/22 at 11:39 pm
Posted on 1/28/22 at 4:51 am to MoarKilometers
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Chief of police quit today
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Brookside Police Chief Mike Jones, who spearheaded the change and grew the police department tenfold, at least, calls the town’s policing “a positive story.” Mayor Mike Bryan – a former councilman who assumed his position last year after the death of the previous mayor – sits and nods in agreement.
The mayor was in on it, and benefitted from this thievery. Why is he still employed, and free?Why has nobody burned their houses down, tarred and feathered them, and sent them down the road?
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