A disgraced Florida Highway Patrol trooper will spend 364 days in jail for writing hundreds of phony tickets to motorists who were never pulled over for traffic offenses. [More]Misdemeanors, y'see. Under a year sentence, so a "prohibited person" provision don't kick in.
Now you try lying to the "Only Ones" in their official police reports and see what happens.
[Via Ernie S]
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Localities need -- strike that, are GREEDY FOR -- the money. They have quotas, whether they admit it or not, and if they don't the police departments do. It leads to all kinds of abuse.
Quite a plea bargain this guy got.
Other FHP troopers are in for a hard time because of him.
TWO HUNDRED traffic counts dismissed. It took that long to catch him, despite the many complaints? Well, you know, the peasants are revolting.
He'll be back, somewhere.
Oh no - - I fear this guy's on to something. If enough municipalities learn of this, they'll take the photo radar matter a step further, and just start arbitrarily billing every other motorist - after all, they probably did SOMETHING wrong...
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