Posted on 02/03/2018 7:05:38 AM PST by JP1201
If the persons ticketed did not receive notice of how to challenge the tickets or an option of serving time I suppose that would be a lack of due process.
I remember an OH town that did something similar along a very short stretch of state road in its borders. The legislature recognized the abuse, and increased the minimum length of state road for a muni to have “authority” on the speed limit.
It would not surprise me to find that New Miami is heavily populated with Blacks. Not a racial thing but a lack of substantial valuable housing stock and commercial development is common in such towns. This means revenue through property taxes for the general fund can be very difficult to come by. So they turn to traffic fines as their main source of revenue.
I wouldn’t be surprised that this is a familiar formula for most speed trap towns.
Nope. I just read it is mostly White population. My bad. But the rest regarding lack of taxable property for general fund revenue still holds true.
>The winners here — lawyers
YEP. When do We get L’Care (fascism for the lawyer class)?
- Clients get ALL funds and lawyers can’t go after clients (like an ER/hospital)
- Lawyers can only bill X% or some break-down sheet
- etc.
Back to topic, sounds like Starke, FL...
Of the $3 million the town most likely only collected half of that with the remainder going to the camera company.
So the taxpayers will be the ones on the hook for and unsourced $1.5 mil.
I got a ticket off US rt19 in West Virginia. Same deal, dramatic drop in posted speed limit with most of the traffic being out of state. It's a 4 lane highway.
I know these guys really well. Mike Allen was our prosecutor until he got caught masturbating on the carpet in his office to impress a female lawyer in his office. He asked her to expose her breasts and then did it right on the Great Seal of Ohio which was part of the carpet in his office.
But, he is actually a great guy and he is gonna get millions since they are doing this same case in Dayton also.
Is this the one?
“In the past it was reported that about 93% of legal cases that came from Arlington Heights, were for traffic fines. Despite being the smallest town in Hamilton County, it had issued the most speeding tickets. Strangely enough though, much of that money never found its way to the village coffers. Three months ago, a state auditor discovered that two clerks for the town had pilfered $260,000 from traffic fines, over the course of several years. The staffers have since been convicted and ordered to pay restitution.”
“That case provided the town with the impetus to finally disband the police department. The town now relies on the Sheriff’s department for patrols. The former mayor of Arlington Heights claims the decision was purely financial, since the town could no longer afford the police department. Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters, who has long accused the town of being a speed trap, applauded the move.”
“Basically, they were setting up speed traps on I-75 to fund the municipal workings of that village – which they then stole. I can’t quite put my finger on it, but there’s something off about a village that’s maybe a mile long setting up speed traps to raise money that then is used to fund a bunch of public employees. It just rubs me the wrong way.”
I didn't know the fine money was for "personal" use...
“Ohio is notorious for small-town speed traps. Fortunately the Interstates bypassed most of them and put them out of business.”
Do they still have those timestamped toll tickets on the Ohio Turnpike? I remember a time when you had to stop for breakfast if you were running ahead of schedule so you wouldn’t hit the exit too quickly and get a ticket for speeding.
The city can say you violated the traffic laws but it has to allow you to say "No, I didn't!" and then it has to prove it's case in court.
This is a very basic Constitutional freedom.
Heck it predates the Constitution it's self. It is in the Magna Carta.
There was a change was in the late fifties when a Canadian Government official was caught by the infamous Ludowici(GA) light on US 301! Seems that his stop caused a international dustup, as he was hospitalized. I was ticketed twice and stopped 3 times at that light(1958-60).
For a true picture of the most famous traffic light (ever)[n the USA go to,
Thanks. I guess I basically assume that an insurance company will take advantage of any information they can get to raise your premium. Imagine if they get their hands on the ancestry DNA database.
>The winners here — lawyers
Olde Billy was right!
Wouldn’t it be funny if that traffic company’s headquarters burned to the ground?
Why does this keep happening in Ohio, decade after decade?
I'd recommend the Carl Drega approach.
I'm not kidding.
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