Long Beah Police

[MGC]

Are hard at work writing traffic tickets. While the National Guard keeps the looters out of the destroyed areas. Long Beach has got to make up for lost revenue with the destruction of high tax paying beach front property. I've passed several road blocks where the Long Beach Police are checking drivers licenses, tags and insurance. They are desperate for revenue. Steer clear of Long Beach........MGC

[Agua]

Well, here's a little news for them: they can't use revenue generated from traffic fines to fund anything but police and fire department related activities.

This was going on in a town in central Mississippi named "Florence" about 20 years ago. Florence was notorious for this sort of crap - setting up roadblocks and writing tickets for any and everything, on US 49. They were using the fines to fund all sorts of stuff - new city hall, library, sewerage projects, you name it. I don't know if the state auditor's office caught it or some individual citizen challenged it, but the Mississippi Supreme Court shut that little boondoggle down.

[HurryKane]

Well, here's a little news for them: they can't use revenue generated from traffic fines to fund anything but police and fire department related activities.

This was going on in a town in central Mississippi named "Florence" about 20 years ago. Florence was notorious for this sort of crap - setting up roadblocks and writing tickets for any and everything, on US 49. They were using the fines to fund all sorts of stuff - new city hall, library, sewerage projects, you name it. I don't know if the state auditor's office caught it or some individual citizen challenged it, but the Mississippi Supreme Court shut that little boondoggle down.

Boy howdy do I remember that, since I had to drive through the area often on trips to
my parents' place back in the day. And I got at least two tickets there. Heh.