Re: Bad Cop, No Donut! Lawsuit filed against abusive cops

Jim Alder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Guido Marx) wrote in
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: 
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> > Jim Alder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> >>    You should have phoned in his badge number, or even filled
> >>    out 
> >> a complaint. I don't think any police dept actually lets the
> >> cop collect the fine on the spot, do they?
> > 
> > I remember when I was a teenager driving through Nevada.  My
> > dad was at the wheel and we got pulled over in some small town
> > (just outside of Beatty I think).  The cop had a credit-card
> > imprinter in his patrol car - and collected the 80 bucks right
> > then and there - on my Dad's Visa.
> 
>    That sounds like Nevada. He didn't offer to go double or 
> nothing?

I remember reading about this a few years later.  Nevada had some
towns in which the state legislature but out the policing to bid.  The
guy who won the bid became the cop - and his "salary" was a percentage
of all the traffic fines collected.  Turned out - there were a few
cops in Nevada making more than $250,000 per year - and nearly all of
it from California tourists.

Guido