93% of town's revenue is from traffic tickets and fees
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- Just a few miles north of the Oklahoma border sits Officer Brad Viner, the Town of Campo, Colorado's sole police officer, who helps rake in more than 90 percent of the town's revenue.
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"We don't have a quota, but if we don't write enough tickets we get fired."
Sounds a lot like a quota to me.
If they don’t make enough money for the town there’s no money to pay his salary
That "shitbird" don't look or talk like he's got enough brains to have graduated high school, does he? SOmeone should make a special project out of "canceling" his tickets.
This cop, is a perfect example of a quota hire. And uneducated, cause he has no clue how the word quota is defined.
Hey Mayor asshat, just be aware, the Feds are watching you very closely. Enjoy your freedom as you abuse your authority.
TCG Global Security Consulting apparently you don’t know what “quota” is. It’s a fixed share of something. When it’s stated you need to right tickets (without a set number), that doesn’t make it a quota. Enforcing speed laws aggressively isn’t illegal. In the video the officer said he gives a grace of 9 mph over the set maximum speed limit (10 mph over before he pulls you over). I was in law enforcement and the dept I was in had an unwritten rule set at 15 mph over. My own personal rule was 20 mph over. On a day shift with at least 4-8 accident calls, 4-8 calls for service, I could easily pull over 30-40 cars for doing well over 20 mph (typically I wrote 4-8 a day shift and 2-5 on midnights). That’s all in an 8 hour shift. I knew officers who would write 10-15 tickets every single shift (I also knew one that wrote only 1 every other month). The thing is we didn’t have a set amount to write but you do have to explain why you didn’t write any of you had little calls for service or hadn’t arrested anyone.
@@HarryRacer18 of course there are quotas in some departments, except they call them "performance goals", same thing, different name. How about telling an officer that he/she must write a specific kind of ticket in a specified intersection within 11:00am and 12:00 noon? What would you call that? I know for a fact where it is happening, along with directives to write a specified number of tickets each day for specified offenses. When quotas, aka "performance goals" are given, eventually an innocent person gets jammed up just so the quota can be met.
The town lost $25k during the interview.
ROTFLMAO!!! Maybe even MORE... lol
All jokes aside this town is screwed
Don’t see this place growing anytime soon🤮
Campo is less than a quarter mile in length, so really there's no need for a Police Force.. or Mayor and City Council for that matter.
Don't want to pay tickets? Don't speed! This isn't rocket science, people...
@@fobbitoperator3620 Thank you Big Daddy Government for keeping me safe lol
@No One wow, a whole mile??? Logically there is no need to call that a town to require it to legally have a mayor or police. That's insane. Makes Mayberry sound like a big city.
@@boduke9428 Lol
@No One my immediate neighborhood is a mile long.
When you reach a point where 93% of a towns revenue is sourced by issuing tickets you may as well just set up a Toll booth at each end and charge admission.
This video helped me add some cities to my list I'll never spend money in
These cops are just justified extortion. How is this different from the Mafia?
@Mike Grover 100% police corruption.
@Jabathaslut. Excellent point 👍
Its unfortunate but a lot of small towns or villages survive this way. If you fight the ticket you have to go to a kangaroo court where you won't get a fair trial
It's not the cop's fault, he's actually answering the reporter's questions honestly! The fault lies with the mayor and the city council.
That and with the people of the Town actually electing these Crooks
So where does the rest of the money come from? This is the norm all across America. I-5, Rogue River, OREGON. Whole court was full for dinky little 40 down to a twenty-five, FOR ABOUT 100 FEET.
Even worse than that, it’s not the law they’re forcing people to accept but legal contract franchise business license to operate a motor vehicle 🚗 upon the roadway hauling passengers or goods for personal gain upon the interstate highway 🛣. Found at U.S. codes, title 18 sect 31 definition of legal codes and terms.
Its not his fault those "rules" exist but it's his fault he complies. Every person has choices & he chooses to comply writing those tickets. He can move and/or get a job in another police station.
The nazis tried the "just following orders" excuse. Didnt work so well. This is disgusting. All 100 people in that town should move.
THIS COP SHOULD BE THE DAMN MAYOR, HE SEEMS TO BE THE ONLY ONE WHO ISNT SLIMY
As a truck driver of twenty years, I've been through this town more times than I can count, going to Denver. Slow down, deny this town of its financial resources and just watch it wither away.
William Jones exactly, and always record with your dash cam. Then they can't lie and get away with any false charges they come up with to steal your money.
I don't think the people, the community should be blamed for a corrupt system. Do what you said, be on your way & don't cause problems there, but there's no reason to want to watch it wither away. I'd rather it strive, and perhaps even the cop they have there now become the mayor instead. He knows it's corrupt, you can see it in how he smiles when the mayor denies it.
If it's not illegal, it should be. The entire state of Colorado is an example of this sort of corruption.
You said it before I could.
I heard.
Cliff Sutton could you further explain this? Is corruption really that bad throughout all of Colorado?
The people support it and vote for it.
$5000 worth of gas from the town budget, and they get a misdemeanor. But If you steal a candy bar, it's a felony and 3 months in jail. 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗
felony? where?
@@Playitalready welcome to America 😉
www.foxnews.com/us/man-accused-of-stealing-candy-could-get-20-years-to-life
www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2000-04-26-0004270254-story.html
www.hometownlife.com/story/news/local/birmingham/2017/09/06/man-caught-stealing-candy-and-50-faces-life-prison/638103001/
@Erich Weiler I understand, and agree, but, you do realize it costs the taxpayers on average $2800-$3000 per month to house an inmate in a state penitentiary
Boby Berry yo what's in that Candy bar CBD THC
@@bobyberry8394 it shouldn't though... But of course so many for profit prisons inflate prices.... And outright lie... It could cost a fraction of that if they were forced to be honest.
How about reducing non-essential positions like the mayor and counsel.
City council your fired
Chris, exactly!😂
How about reducing their salaries
Byron, Wyoming. If you go 1 mph over the speed limit, you are helping pay for the town's fireworks display that year.
or 1mph under thts impeading traffic 😨😭🤣🤦♀️
Dont mention Buffalo wyoming paying for the Longmire casts bill at the bar. Wyoming is a corrupt shithole.
Paul, so what does the town get if you do 2 miles over speed limit? LOL
No sense at all, fire the only guy making 93% of your paycheck. Lol
There are more comments here than citizens of the small town. Maybe it's time to dissolve the town and be absorbed by a neighboring town.
The nearest neighboring towns are Boise City, OK (about 20 miles south) and Springfield, CO (about 20 miles north). That option wouldn't be feasible. However, turning the duties over to the Sheriff or Highway Patrol would work.
Ron Farmer that’s what i was thinking... let the state troopers or sheriffs handle it.
30 mile for a major road should be a crime.
it's pretty common in rural areas for the speed limit to drop going through a town, you get increased vehicular and pedestrian traffic.
It's called a speed trap
it is illegal, there are federal speed laws, to change the speed limit the municipality has to conduct a study that the existing speed limit is dangerous
Doesn't seem to be very much near the road too. Would make sense if there was a ton of houses and such, but the town is pretty small as is.
The town should become insolvent and join with the county. But I doubt that is going to happen as long as there are people who want the power of governance.
Agreed, but if the towns people are sick & tired of being pulled over for BS speeding tickets, then forced to pay the court BS fines outta their hard earned income, they need to *not* elect the corrupt liars they have been. Maybe get together & elect one of their own. I'd be willing to bet their budget wld be a helluva lot easier to balance if an honest person got in there. Eject & elect a new judge & sheriff.
You should count the money in your county I did last yr there are 40k people living here and just speeding tickets paid 18 million buck not to mention all the other tickets , like seatbelts ,if you could find the number for the whole country I bet its in the trillions ,not that anyone really cares or it wouldn't be like this imo
@@Yankeerose9973 it's people just passing through the little hole in the wall getting the tickets. There aren't enough people actually living there to get that many tickets.
How is it a public safety issue when the only police officer in the town spends his whole day writing tickets?
The only safety issues in their town are that any real crime goes unnoticed bcuz the abundance of BS speeding tickets getting written & they have a kangaroo court with a FOS, corrupt clown in place of a genuine judge.
It means they must have solved every crime ever in existence. The only place in the world where no crime is ever committed. Must be a great place
There can't be that many dangerous drives in a town that small.
@@mercedesbenzformula1 dude 107 people live there. I wouldn't expect much privacy, it wouldn't seem like there would be much revenue at all through crime.
Meanwhile on the other side of town woman dials 911 and dies.
If they reduce the Police force (of 1) then I guess you would no longer be getting any revenue at all ...So yea that makes a lot of sense
They would "restructure" and hire a family member
No more QUALIFIED IMMUNITY for public officials and cops
here in Missouri we HAD towns like this, until the law was created where only 10% of the towns revenue could be made from tickets!
a lot of little towns folded quick
I'm impressed in that officer's integrity. If he gets fired, I'll give him a job! I need people like that. Honest and fair.
This town has 100 people and a police department - are you kidding. No, they're not kidding. They're criminals.
As you can see from the officers appearance, all you need is to be breathing and somewhat literate to be a cop...
Build a bi-pass road around the town entirely. Abuse your revenue coming into the town, lose the town.
Sure state revenue will go up, without these backwards thinkers.
I believe him about the meeting about traffic tickets. I used to be a cop for 4 years and although we didn't technically have a quota, my squad supervisors said "we want to see at least 1 ticket a day." I was told in a meeting about how I only wrote 7 tickets in a few weeks, but saw I was busy making big arrests, so they let me slide a little. Best way I got tickets were accidents, since someone is always at fault. Easy ticket and driver always understands. I absolutely HATED writing tickets, just did it because I HAD to or I'd be disciplined. Our traffic division had to write at least 12 tickets a day to stay in traffic unit! I worked for Kenner Police Dept. , just outside New Orleans, La.
You didn't HAVE to write tickets. You could have gotten an actual job in the private sector doing something productive rather than harassing your fellow citizens.
When "to insure compliance" becomes a revenue source, next the cops ARE the criminals.
I bet this cop would lie to a judge that you were doing 75 in a 55 zone; when in reality you were doing 50. The judge will believe the cop every time, and you will be convicted if you fight it. The cop is trying to make his quota and keep his job; so will lie against you on the stand. Be prepared for this.
Everywhere I have lived, from overseas to several states in the U.S., when a road or highway goes through any town, the speed limit goes down. Exception is freeways, but there are no sidewalks on freeways. Every driver's handbook I have read stresses the necessity of obeying speed laws.
Don't pay the fine. Make them spend money and fight it in court or do one day in jail. 😂
Insurance rates.
Phillip Leanos : great idea, then you have to pay court costs and if you don’t have the money for that then they place a lien on whatever you own. Great idea on your part.
Yea. Then they ruin your credit and lock down your bank account.
@@packergeek10 everyone pay in pennies be sure to add garbage , sand, Sodium Silicate , glue , random metals , rocks, clips etc.. if they try to use a machine.. to jam it up..
You don't care if you get to drive legally do you??
You didn't even read the drivers manual to get a drivers license either, either did you?
There is this one sentence in most states manuals that says failure to pay will result in your license being suspended and it even says it on most tickets!
Civil law suits are the one s you can get away without paying!
$5,000 in the tank of his sons cars? 😂😂😂
Englandsbestlover ya and somehow they called this a misdemeanor rather than a felony fraud
He did say 10mph over. It’s no reason too go that fast over a speed limit. I may go 5mph over but never in a residential. Kids could run out in the street. Often in a residential I’ll go a few miles under. And this cop turned in his own so he has my respect. Don’t speed.
Interviewer: Do you have a quota?
Officer: No I just have a certain number of tickets I have to write.
LOLOLOL
i am from south alabama. there was a town next to the Mississippi line on US98 called wilmer; and it was a speed trap. The DA finally went in and dissolved the town and arrested the mayor. I was so glad to hear that happened!!
Does that mean that 93% of the drivers, that were speeding, were cited for doing it.
Huh!!!
So, if all of those drivers would've been "Obeying the Law" they wouldn't of been ticketed...
Yep, that's a bone tickler alright,
And very hard to grasp...🤔😨😳
Lol, what a load of bs. It's about revenue...not public safety. Lying is a sin.
A town consisting of only 100 people needs a full time police force?
Water Bottle
Especially in small towns like this one BAD THINGS happen and it would be the LAW ENFORCEMENT doing all those BAD THINGS... lol...
A full time police force that hires ONE officer... I'd say there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. Not until they get rid of the BS government in that town that's even more unnecessary.
so that one cop has to make 93% of the town's money?
shit, that is a lot of work, if he calls in sick, the budget could be RUINED!
Campo, come and see the world's largest banjo!
When I travel to a relative's house near me, there is a long stretch of the 47, where the only thing that changes during the whole drive, are the mysterious tiny areas of 30mph speed limit. If you are just cruising and not paying careful attention, you are in ticketland. It's the thing everyone talks about on that road... they all warn you about the "Speed Traps". That's a pretty good indication it's not about safety. Jamming on the brakes in those two little areas is the unsafe thing.
Job Security! 109 residents?
And the war on drugs? I personally think it's all about revenue as well
Eric... All most every traps that they the GOBERMINT "SETUP" to catch the PUBLIC breaking their LAW is about GENERATING REVENUE... Really? Who is going to question them? GOD!!!! ROTFLMAO!!!
$50,000 worth of fuel in a year is not a misdemeanor
@Airbornejoe1986 but they probably count each fill up as a separate crime of $75 to a $100.
God forbid we make laws and then ENFORCE them! And use the money to support the town, instead of expecting a gov't handout. NO ONE is FORCING people to speed. They EVEN bust the cops breaking the law in the town. Sounds like a GREAT IDEA TO ME!!!!
Anyone who is not related to you and tells you they are concerned about your safety is a liar.
Trurer words were never spoken
1,000,000% that is the Truth.
change the speed limit
Did I just see a decent cop?
Saw ugly ass thing at 2:45
Most of these non-elected revenue collectors are just out to do their job, protecting and serving their own careers. Because their salary depends, mostly on local tax revenue, they are by definition, welfare recipients. Then, turn around and take that hypothetical jurisdiction to impose their extortion practices upon the very hands that feed them.They should be labeled for what they really are robber barons, road pirates, or storm troopers. Just how all these self-elected bureaucrats have taken our right to travel and bastardized it into a [(privilege) to drive, one you must pay for, in the first place], should be the battle cry to end this extortion racket forever.
...THE TOWN OF " WIDE SPOT IN THE ROAD " NEEDS SPEEDERS ...DO YOUR PART!!
I received a speeding ticket here in Alabama, when I went to pay the ticket the clerk told me that tickets were what paid their salary so I asked do they get paid if no tickets are issued, that question upset the clerk. Most traffic laws are not for "public safety" they are for generating revenue. No traffic law should ever be about revenue for paying salaries those salaries should be entirely dependant on taxes and the number of employees should be based upon a budget based on taxes you already pay!
That is ridiculous. . Never going there
I see a number of Police Cars around & a lot of them have "Protect & Serve" on their cars. This is a lot of baloney, as far as Traffic Citations go. Instead of being out in the public & their presence causing folks to drive slower & safer, they hide, so they can catch the one's in a hurry. They want the money, they are INSTRUCTED to create their keep. Another thing... Have you ever seen a city post how much money was taken in, on fines & permits, & tell you where the money went....? That Mayor should be JAILED... I think he is a common crook.
all towns revenue are dependent on tickets. policing for profit.
At the end of the day, Maze... That is all it is... Stealing from the PUBLIC all in the NAME of PROTECTING THE PUBLIC and KEEPING THE PEACE...
@@1USAUSA yep they are far worse than criminals
If you are speeding, meaning you are driving faster than allowed by law, the law allows you to be punished. That punishment is a traffic ticket. It doesn't matter whether it is making the town money and that they rely on it. What matters is that the law exists. If the police write a ticket and the driver wasn't speeding - then that, too, is illegal. I guess if you ask the residents if they want to pay more in property taxes vs. collecting traffic ticket revenue - I can't imagine why the people keep voting these people in.
Summersville, WV was/is the same way.... Google Summersville WV speed trap and read all you want from trip adviser!!
Word to Big Bird. And Webster Springs is beyond corrupt. They used federal grant money given after major flooding first to buy big boy toys and then to clean up tourist attractions. I'm so glad I moved up outta West don't tell me what to do Virginia.
Another reason to abolish the public sector monopoly on ALL services.
🤣🤣🤣🤣, this real funny!!! Get that man a uniform and a dental plan 😁😁
It is not the number of tickets written, it is the DOLLAR value of each ticket, added together to make the grand total.
South bay in Florida drops the speed limit from 55 to 30 in a matter of feet, and it is a huge separated highway with no houses around.
Always be weary of roads that have incoherent speed limits out in the middle of nowhere
This has happened in other States. To the point State officials dismantled local police departments. There was a time not long ago it was much worse. People would wonder into one of these small rural communities and not come out again for years! Not until they had signed over virtually everything they owned, money, cars even their home. Simply to get out.
The level of intelligence is displayed by the improper display of our American Flag.
Bring in the feds and investigate people from the top down. Start putting people in prison.
A limit of 30 is a deliberately low limit that many people will tend to exceed to some degree. What is needed more than a limit that is very easy to exceed is more people pullled over for texting while driving. I and a couple other people I know were nearly ran off the road by a texting driver. They would have hit us head on while we were still in our lane. When they are not nearly causing a horrible accident they are 10 MPH or more *under* the limit and are at that point holding up traffic while creating hazards for anyone near them at the time.
John Doe Trenton nd drops the limit from 65 to45 then to 20 in a space of 80 yards and continues for 2 miles before resuming always a cop sitting near the 20 mph sign. Wonder how many tickets written to people thinking it was reduced to 25 so slowed down accordingly.
well... the assholes that made the phone holding law, they MAKE some people text,sometimes ; it always bothered me that they give out licenses to people who cannot drive and talk at the same time!
I have an old 4 speed tranny on my v8, my second gear doesn't start till 35 mph, having to go exactly 30 mph is freaking ridiculous.
They can't afford a uniform for him either? I would never believe he was a cop in the first place dressed like that.
Deliverance music cue?
"Where you goin', city boy!?"
This is not serving the public, its extortion. We have towns in SC that suffer for buisness now. People avoid passing through because of crooked cops.
this is not only happening in that town. it's happening in every town and city in every state of this country.
We had a notorious speed trap near me for decades. They were ordered to stop ticketing speeders on the interstate highway by a higher court. They ignored it.
The state passed a law that said a local town may not ticket speeders if there was not an exit within the town's borders. They ignored that.
Finally, it was, of all people, the census bureau that shut them down. It was found that the town claimed to have enough residents to qualify for a mayor's court. The were caught claiming that a family was living in a warehouse. The corrected census numbers showed that they did not have enough residents, and had to close their mayor's court. .
😂😂😂 Brilliant! Brilliant!
I love Americans' sense of humor. This isn't found anywhere else in the world. Never ever have I seen such a genre of ' humor'. Kind of understatement of daily life in the US. And the crazy and bizarre, if not surreal, things 'government' can do. I thought Mr Bean is funny. But this is hilarious. Your scriptwriter is absolutely a creative genius.
Is this a SNL type of programme? Strange humor but I suppose people and countries have different kinds of humor. Will definitely get used to it. Must say it is very funny. It is an original kind of humor that I've never seen before. Not the slapstick kind of humor associated with the US. The actors are very convincing. Very very good acting. No overacting. Dark humor?
Thanks!
I resigned after 12 years of service for the same thing in this video from a community of 550 residents, all the city government is concerned about was our agency being self sufficient because in city government we our the only line item in the town budget that can generate revenue, fire department can’t, maintenance department can’t, town hall can’t, so they pressure us to pay our own way! The day the mayor called us all out in public forum for a town meeting with the number of tickets we wrote and scolded me for not writing any I quit. I believe in the safety of my town, but I became a cop to help people and make sure my community feels safe where they live. Whoever can say They don’t speed is lying to themselves. I’d stop my own mayor several times for it and one of the city councilman, and they were the two that were pressuring me. Goverment is a joke. They is it to there benefit!
Respect for that cop!
0:42 “The police department pays for the town”. No the civilians that pay taxes so that you can work and on top of that pays for the tickets you give them from entrapment pay for the town.
My wife is military and we live in Texas now......Texas is big on policing for profit....and even bigger on civil asset forfeiture with no crime commited.
With only 107 residents within the town (small village to be more accurate), the policing should be handed off to the county sheriff's department. Average police officer (not administrative staff) to resident ratios normally sit around 15-25 officers per 10k residents. That equates to about 0.15-0.25%. For a village of 107 residents, this means that they would need about 4-5 times the population for even a single officer to be within a reasonable ratio. These 107 people (and those that travel through) would be better served by handing off the governance and policing to the county.
It looks like the town is also saving money by not buying new (police) t-shirts.
They don't have a dental plan either.
These kind of towns are all over the country. When the town has a financial vested interest in your guilty verdict, you will not get a fair and impartial hearing. No justice for the Victim.
All drivers have to do to avoid being cited is, “DON’T SPEED!”
If the police cite people who AREN'T speeding, then it's a racket like in Denmark, South Carolina where going 15 in a 25 zone gets a speeding citation anyway.
They'll always make up reasons to pull people over. Some have been pulled over for driving the speed limit, reason being, most people don't drive the speed limit , so you must be trying to hide something by doing it. Yeah
Just like 'national security', there are alot of sins you can hide under the cover of 'public safety'. Say it, and it shuts down debate immediately.
There was a town, just like Campo, somewhere in rural Missouri. Police department was a family affair, and the town's budget was almost all revenue from tickets. It was almost like a tourism tax, because people travelling thru wouldn't hassle with fighting a traffic ticket and just pay it, and the locals had smartened up a long time ago.
That'st how things were done for years, until one time the cops made the mistake of ticketing a state senator. When he found out how things were being run in that town, he pushed thru a state law that mandated that revenue from tickets was not allowed to exceed a certain (much lower) percentage of the town's overall budget.
As a result, first the police department, then the town pretty much shriveled up and died. Same thing should happen to a sorry excuse for a municipality like Campo.
No victim = no crime. Leave people the hell alone. Otherwise, you may eventually have riots.
now we're thinkin my way.
You would be suprised all the idiots I argue with that support victimless crimes.
You must be a dumbass sovereign citizen. You'll change your tune when you're speeding and kill someone or thing
maria rosa you will change your tune when you get an unjust ticket just so police can raise money for their town. That is exactly what happened to me so I have been there.
dvferyance I live in reality. And abide laws. Therefore I won't be changing my tune to your shitty one. Tata. ;)
He doesn't have a Quota, he can write as many tickets as he wants! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
That's how I took it.
That town has nothing better to do, but give tickets. They need the money.
Misdemeanor theft?? It was 5000 dollars worth of fuel! I remember when they put up stop light cameras in my town, they told us it wasn't for money, but for safety. Then when the state said that they couldn't make money off of them, they took them all down the next day.
I would petition the state to make a quarter mile bypass of the town. We did that here and lo and behold, the town started living within their budget.
With 107 people, a sales tax at less than 3% and the median value of a home being less than $37,000 (average property tax is less than $200 per year) it wouldn't take that many tickets to equal 93% of town revenue. And if you don't want to help pay the one police officer, don't speed through town.
5,000 dollars stolen from town revenue is not a misdemeanor....it is a felony...!!!
At least he’s honest.
Insanity!! Why not be honest and raise the property taxes instead of harassing people!!
Good idea but that would OBVIOUSLY shine a LIGHT on their CORRUPTION... They don't want that... lol... Plus, there is not that many people in this town (only about 106 people...) lol... That would be well over $1,000 per building or house... For a small town like this, people will IMMEDIATELY LEAVE the town and this cop and mayor will have to look for another job... LOL... Ticketing mostly out of towners driving through this town is easier than increasing taxes on their people.
It's a town of 100 people, which apparently has no inherent industry and exists solely to make money off of truckers and occasional commuters. Even counting a few outlying houses, it can't stretch more than a couple of miles along the highway. You simply have to ask the question: "Have we done everything we can within reason to prevent speeding in this stretch of highway?"
When you finally acknowledge the obvious answer of "Of course not", then you've answered the question of whether this is about public safety or entirely about revenue.
A person needs to stand on the side of the road wherever Barney Fife is running radar with a BIG SIGN that say "SPEED TRAP" SLOW DOWN TO 30....this town lives on speeding ticket revenue. It wouldn't take very long before they would have to find another way to steal their money.
I'm pretty sure that person would be arrested for contempt of cop. oops! I meant disturbing the peace, obstruction of justice and resisting arrest.
That one officer seems decent enough, he flat out said that he was being told to write tickets or else. And he's alleging the mayor said so, I hope he becomes the small towns mayor instead.
This is the norm. I'd be shocked to find a town or two that's not corrupt
Reduce the police force of one and there is no town revenue. People don't pay taxes in Campo?
Sounds like Damascus, Arkansas. They got shut down by the court because too much of their income was from traffic tickets. They would write people for speeding even before they crossed a sign, or after they left a speed zone. Very dirty business.
Tulsa Oklahoma has started writing tickets if the light turns yellow as you go through the intersection. And I have heard that you can't beat it in court.
How on earth does a town with a population smaller than the attendance of a grocery store at at any given time have their own police force and allowed to self govern rather than let the county take care of them ???
I feel bad for this cop. I mean his uniform is a freaking t-shirt.
No money in the budget for uniforms
Why not do similar to what they did in New Zealand about 30 years ago? Get rid of city/county cops or absorb them into the state police, or transfer traffic duties to Highway Patrol. Long term it would be more economical, and you wouldn't have this small town cop mentality. That cop should be policing, and the town should put up speed cameras if speeding is a genuine problem.
If highway patrol writes the ticket it goes to the state not the town is why, the politicians want the money so they can buy themselves nice things, not to help the town
@@md-er2wz In Australia towns and cities get their money from rates, business taxes and so on. Our police, fire and ambulance services and schools are state government run, so cities don't have to fund them
Don't have quotas but if you don't write out a specific amount your out of a job...🤣🤣🤣🤣🤯🤯🤯🤯
Town needs to become unincorporated. 107 people in town? Why would you need a cop?
actually I don't even think police officers need to be threatened to write tickets. In towns where the people are struggling just to pay there basic bills, the police know that in order to have a job, they need to generate at least half there salary in tickets or else by catching drivers that aren't from town. Speeding tickets are fine, but when they make the speed limit low just to entrap people that's a different story. That is why the police unions do not want drivers to be able to use phone apps that warn them. The phone apps are better than radar or laser detectors, so it makes it much more challenging for police to catch speeders. Where I live I very rarely even see the police traps anymore, 20 years ago they were out all the time on major highways and small town roads as well.
I got nabbed for this in Illinois on a road that is very rural 55 speed limit but goes through small towns that are two blocks long and picks up again. I slow to 35 coming up to town but speed limit was 30 about a mile out of town before even passing any houses. Officer was nice and I was nice to him, but I did tell him IMO it was a little excessive to stop me for it. He clocked me before I even got to the downtown. I was still surrounded by corn fields.
Go to Brice Ohio, they were sued by the State Of Ohio to stop the speed trap, but, there still out there writing tickets even though they Lost in court. Give you a ticket at 3 or 4 miles over the 35 mph speed limit. With only population of a 120 + - they have 4 cops, and a camera placed under a construction to mail tickets to people they clam broke the 35 speed limit.