Ex-LSP officer unloads; explains how LEO tickets are a $-making operation

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A former local state trooper who pleaded guilty in state district court this week to two felony counts of malfeasance in office took to Facebook on Friday and said he was indeed guilty of doing something that he said “hundreds, if not thousands of troopers” have also done.

Jimmy Allen Rogers, 35, resigned from Troop D in 2015 but was arrested in April as part of an investigation into the Louisiana State Police’s participation in the LACE program in July and August of 2015.

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In his post, Rogers said, in part: “My hope is not that you will feel sorry for me, but that this would spark an outcry for justice, an outcry for a real investigation. That investigation would reveal that Jimmy Rogers is only one of hundreds, if not thousands of troopers who have done the same thing. The public is tired of dirty cops, dirty prosecutors, a dirty system and, specifically, a dirty state police office! Ladies and gentlemen, so am I!”

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The post went on to say: “I am guilty. I am guilty of participating in what is, in my opinion, a gross violation of your constitutional rights. You are being taxed without your knowledge. The District Attorney’s office dangles a few dollars in front of police officers and in turn those officers write a required amount of tickets. John DeRosier and his office have made millions of dollars on the backs of hard working, innocent Americans. I never thought of overtime this way until I married my beautiful wife only a year ago. I’ve listened to her stories of struggle as a single mother. How one ticket could literally bury a person who struggles in poverty to feed their children. They are then forced to choose between paying a ticket or a light bill. Lose your lights or be buried under tickets that continue to pile up until you have no other recourse than to sit in jail or make payments for year. Why, you ask? For money!!!”

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