re: Should this be legal for a cop to do?

I've seen sheriffs and state police do this a couple of times. In the center turning lane at night with no lights. Each time, I called the LSP and the EBRSO and told them there was a unit in the middle of the road with no lights and somehting might be wrong.

Maurice, Louisiana says hello.

Small town cops gonna set speed traps. It's what they do.

I never realized how much shite is pulled on Baw Q. Louisiana-an until I moved to Texas.

shite is fricked up, yo.

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never realized how much shite is pulled on Baw Q. Louisiana-an until I moved to Texas.

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90% of the time I'm speeding in Texas, I'm let go with a warning since I'm traveling for work.

Louisiana, you get stopped it's automatically a ticket. I'll be moving up to central Arkansas in the next few weeks. Not because of tickets but because I'll enjoy it there.

Seriously bro, I'm not saying there AREN'T unmarked police cars, but the overwhelming majority of police cars look like this and are visibly police cars:

Speed traps in small towns are a known evil. Louisana has some of the worst.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicksibilla/2019/08/29/nearly-600-towns-get-10-of-their-budgets-or-more-from-court-fines/?sh=4326c7d84c99

Louisiana article

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In an article published this month looking at the reliance of traffic fines and forfeitures on small town budgets, Governing magazine found a passel of Louisiana municipalities right at the top nationally. Worried speed traps would hurt tourism Louisiana legislators and officials over the past dozen years have tried new laws.

Number 1 is Georgetown, a village of 500 people on U.S. Hwy. 165 between Alexandria and Monroe. The Governing analysis found that nearly $500,000 – 92 percent of the town’s budget – was raised on the side of the road by its cops.

Fenton is Number 2. Also, on U.S. 165, the town of about 400 is between Interstate 10 and Kinder and its police wrote up more than $1.2 million in fines or about 91 percent of 2017 general fund revenues. (Governing also noted the Louisiana Legislative Auditor’s report that a lot of that money never was deposited in the town’s bank account.)

The Governing chart shows Baskin, in Franklin Parish; Henderson, at the foot of the I-10 bridge across the Atchafalaya Basin; and Robeline, in Natchitoches Parish; round out the top five.

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Thanks geauxturbo.

FYI
I did not get a ticket. I live in the area and know to slow down when approching that crappy little nursery capital of LA town.

What he was doing was dangerous as hell....thus "
According to the statutes its against the law to park on a highway. No exception for emergency vehicles"

A town with the populaton of 599 (as per 2021 census) has absolutely zero need for 5 "police" vehicles....yep, 5.