Using unmarked police cars and uniforms without insignia, the town with no traffic lights collected $487 in fines and forfeitures in 2020 for every man, woman and child. Total town income more than doubled from 2018 to 2020 – from $582,000 to more than $1.2 million – as fines and forfeitures rose 640%.
The MRAP "tanks" are badly made shit left over from the Iraq war. They're expensive to operate and expensive to maintain. Plus, a lot of them are so top heavy that a lot of them can't even handle mild grades. If you ever have to run away from one the trick is, I am told, to walk diagonally up a hill and wait for it to roll over if the untrained cop driver tries to follow you.
Lmao yeah that's the one