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

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Guido Marx) wrote in
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> Jim Alder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Guido Marx) wrote in
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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. 

   Interesting idea, but you would think that anyone could see the 
flaw from the onset. I don't know how you 'bid' on a job where you 
get a percentage of the take.
   I heard about another LEO in charge who gave his cops 25%, I 
think it was, of all property seized. His personal vehicle was a 
seized Mercedes if I recall correctly.

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