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"I saw one area near Shreveport, LA where the speed limit had been reduced 10 mph since my last visit. Good thing I noticed, too - the area was crawling with police cars. As I've seen many times before, they zero in on the people driving BMWs, Mercedes and the like."

I was born and raised in Shreveport. Shreveport is 50 percent Black. Of those 50 percent, in my estimation 95 percent are below the 'poverty line(by choice and their own actions). Shreveport is broke. Sleazeport, Lowsyana is a cesspool. Shreveport has led the nation a few times in murder rate per capita. Captain Shreve set sail down the Red River long ago, never to return. Or maybe he went North.

But my point is, if Shreveport/area cops are 'zeroing in' on luxury cars, they must not do too much business. You see far less 'BMW's, Mercedes, and the like' than you would in most towns of equivalent size. And if the cops were targeting one of the very, very few areas that might have enough luxury traffic to 'target,' wouldn't you think the targeted rich would have the power and money to complain to city hall...after all, aren't they running things anyway? Yeah, I thought so. So pardon me if I'm a little skeptical.

And if you were talking about a small town outside of Shreveport...like Oil City, Belcher, or Vivian maybe...well, they've seen a Mercedes...once.

I'm pretty sure the luxury cars that I mentioned were "just passing through" on I-20 or I-49. Shreveport is the first city of appreciable size east of Dallas.

Seems like most of the police activity is just south of the city, along the 49 corridor. Saw it happen again yesterday, on I-20 near the state line (on the Texas side), right around Waskom. The cop paced a group of cars traveling east, then pulled over someone in a Lexus.

I didn't mean to imply that this stuff is only happening in Louisiana, or in the Shreveport area. Cops routinely target certain drivers for various reasons - out of state plates, headed in the general direction of the casino (which Shreveport has, correct?), etc. They are obviously writing a lot more traffic citations these days; is it really surprising that they'd go after people who look comfortably able to pay?