Citizens Fighting Back Against Speed Traps and Tickets
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- čas přidán 23. 05. 2018
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Law enforcement exists to protect and serve, not tax and spend. But things are different in the city of Doraville, Georgia, a 10,000 person suburb of Atlanta that has become notorious for its revenue-generating speed traps and housing code enforcement cases.
Each year, Doraville budgets between 17 and 30 percent of its overall expected revenue to come from fines and fees issued by its police officers and code inspectors. A 2015 Doraville newsletter bragged that “averaging nearly 15,000 cases and bringing in over $3 million annually,” Doraville’s court system “contributes heavily to the city’s bottom line.”
By putting fine revenue into its annual budget, Doraville creates a perverse incentive for police, prosecutors, and even its municipal court to police for profit, rather than seek justice and protect the health and safety of the city.
Drivers and homeowners know this perversion first hand. A report in a local newspaper found that Doraville issues tickets totaling more than $800 per resident annually, writing upwards of 40 tickets per day. Some residents have been threatened with probation or even jail time for simple code violations.
The Supreme Court has made it clear that it is unconstitutional for a justice system to be influenced by perverse incentives to raise municipal revenue. That’s why two Doraville homeowners and two Doraville drivers have partnered with the Institute for Justice to shut down Doraville’s unconstitutional practice of policing for profit.
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welcome to the 21st century where you can't truly own your property.
Thats nothing knew buddy. Its been like this since the late 1800s/early 1900s. If you pay property taxes you dont own your property. You're renting it from the government.
@@bobbyrayvictory6905 I've always said the same. The justification I've heard is so that wealthy people don't buy up lots of land and never use it. It helps ensure land is actually used. Okay. If that's true, why is the tax placed on the sole house someone owns? Why not have that property tax kick in starting on the SECOND property that you own?
Pay it, and then file homestead paperwork
@@johndsmith-gv8zh Interesting. I didn't know that was an option. I'm on 4 acres in a very rural area.
Hahaha ha 😆 keep thinking that
Fifty years ago, I and a girl friend drove past a country store, filling station and a couple houses. We were not in any hurry whatsoever. We were pulled over for speeding. I had reason to write a letter questioning some aspect of the ticket. The return letter had the names and titles of all the city officials. Four of five had the same last name!
A stack of firewood is not ugly, it’s not an eyesore.
A stack of firewood is rustic beauty.
A stack of firewood is a stack of firewood. I can't imagine living somewhere where my stack of firewood needs to be defined, classified and the focus of legal issues... THAT'S sounds like a constitutional problem! Or, Nazi Germany!
When whites want your money it's what ever they say it is....
I agree
Unapologetically BLACK no tickets for firewood in rural white areas. No code enforcement.
And a stack of firewood could also save your life! Of course they don't care about your life!
I’m surprised the city didn’t cite you for filming without a permit!
SHHH! Don't say that! They might be reading this. You don't want to give them any ideas!
Good point👍
Ever heard of the 1st amendment? You could film anything you see on public, can't trespass your eyes.
Kinda defeats the purpose of them getting away with it if your basically snitching on ij
Or walking on the wrong side of a crosswalk (this was the case in one of their other videos).
The court house driveway has cracks, they should be fined as well.
@Jay L Did you just have a seizure? You're not right dude, open a window upstairs you're lacking oxygen or something...
NEVER TRUST THE POLICE!!!!!
@Deplorable Centrist ah yes and they are in charge of judging if their job has been done "reasonably" just like they are in charge of investigating themselves in lieu of a complaint.
You forget..it is "do as I say " and don't worry about what I do.
I know right
"A nation of sheep will soon have a Government of wolves." Edward R. Murrow.
You remember a quote like that, but you can't remember that "speed trap" is there.
@@edwardsmith5650 , I'm in Australia, not local to Georgia U.S.
A nation of sheep soon end up on the kabob!
@@edwardsmith5650 hard to rember a speed trap is there when they are ilegal to set up and when cops break the laws and violate peoples civil rights to set them . up ..id say more but it would be a useless thing to do .. because you for 1 would not beleave it ro be true . 2 would not take 5 or 10 minutes to look it up to see if it was true 3 even if i told you where to look it up and what site you can find it at you would still not look it up because you THINK wrongly that you are right and im wrong
@hell on earth dude dam br o go read the declaration of independence your rights DO NOT COME FROM THE GOVERNMENT if you read the declaration of independence it say. Your rights are bestowed to you by tour creater ( god ) and are unalienable. And are absolute . that means the can not be changed modifide or TAKEN AWAY by anyone on earth. I wish people would learn we the people are the creater of the government. And it only excist by our permissions its all writen down for you in the declaration of independence. The bill of rights . And the constitution dam learn your rights
The next town over from me does this. Their cops have completely accepted the fact that they are simply highway robbers, and they excel at it.
ONCE THE PEOPLE WAKE UP AND AMBUSH THEIR DOMESTIC ENEMIES, THE FEAR SPREADS!
My city uses ford explores (Ik every department does) but here they are common cars and the one cops use have regular plates and markings on the side that are reflective that can only be seen if your headlights are shining on them. Oh yeah they also have local high school stickers on the back with one of the family stickers that have the stick figured people to look like it’s a mom car with kids.
Al Capone, turns in his grave. He should have been in government.
@Jay L OK
I mean, he technically was. That's why he was successful.
That's what we call organized crime at his best.😎
Ahhh the R.I.C.O. act
"ORGANIZED REPUBLIKAN CRIME!" CALL IT WHAT IT IS!😭💸💸💸💸💸💸💸💸😭
SEERLESVALLEY DEATHVALLEY are you honestly this stupid , republican or Democrat they all take advantage of their citizens
Also learn how to speak before you type it looks like a 5 year wrote that
ahren Adoptie ✅✅✅
I feel your pain.. Remember the old west when the bandits used to hold up stage coaches.. The same thing is going on today but now it's legal..
what do you call an armed thief on the side of the road?
@@snoolee7950 Road Pirates
A 6.1 earthquake just happened in puerto rico. Before Nancy Pelosi calls the cops to fine Donald Trump for it. I want to comfirm that its true,Its the presidents fault and it is an elegal act..
@@snoolee7950 highwayman
Same people. Organized crime
The fact it was a criminal charge is just bizarre coming from someone that's worked in the justice field
Then you should know how corrupt it is.
punishable by the electric chair
it’s WHY I left law enforcement….and ultimately public service…
but let’s be clear……the JUDICIARY is the CORE of the corruption…….
there are still SOME/FEW honest judges nationwide and such…..but VERY, VERY few
perhaps 10%……law enforcement today is the same….LE no longer serves the people….it serves government….period
PS: I am a 100% law abiding tax paying citizen…..very middle class…NO criminal record…excellent driving record…..have with my wife of 20+ years raised a family with 2 kids now grown of which one is also sworn deputy sheriff……he too is leaving that after JUST 3 years for same reason I did……
The city's finances and spending needs to be scrutinized.
Amen o o aa👍 Yes!! send every citizen a spreadsheet of their spending.
@@joedejesus6363 thats why citizens are supposed to go to their city council budget meetings. Responsible citizens who care that is.
Speed traps seldom have anything to do with public safety and everything to do with generating revenue.
John Ratko I prefer the term “revenue farming “.
But the children.....
Just like red light cameras. City's installed them with the false notion (by the company) that they will make intersections safer. Many citys had them removed because it was proven otherwise and that they only generated revenue. Probably also more paperwork and man hours then the court system wanted.
They have to fund their salery and raises
John Ratko 4 or 5 miles over
Road Pirates! Here's an idea for Doraville. Reduce the number of people working in local government by 40%, police, code enforcement officers, etc., and then eliminate all the policing for profit, and you come out ahead on your local government's budget and your individual liberty.
Inspect all of their properties and levy maximum fines on the police and code enforcement people.
@@patmcbride9853 It's not so much the police staff that are the problem. It's the councillors, accountants and lawyers that are being allowed to run the local government that are the problem. Have a look at their earnings -$$$ - thats the reason for the fines. Get rid of them and local government costs will drop
Or get a hundred or more people and stand up to the people in charge of this and demand they stop "or else".
Liberty4ever here's an idea don't speed or break the law.
I agree with Liberty4ever. Make the Doraville town budget public. I'm sure we would find a lot of ways they could cut spending
This type of government corruption needs to be called out at all levels
As a start get rid of the city officials and cut down the police force first to save money
Refund the MAGA COPROACHES
This is Piracy. The "judges and police" involved should be in jail. If the town legislators, clerks and mayor are also involved, they should go with them.
Cops are criminals in uniforms and Judges who commit violations and crimes everyday on duty OFF DUTY only reason these lowlifes don't have a rap sheet is because they all work for criminal enterprise aka law enforcement/courts twitter.com/MyBrooklyn1
Michael Foye why do you have a us flag ? I was deceived also until I did research. The United States of America and the United states Washington D.C. are two different animals. The information is at your fingertips, all it takes is a will to know the truth !
@@thomasspringer5187 I'm not sure what your point is. You might want to clarify.
Yes I have American flags. Buried my father under one.
@@russiansquare Not all. Many jurisdictions do not misuse law and abuse authority. You must delineate between those who are criminals with badges, and true lawmen. Otherwise you will find you are also spreading injustice. I hope that you are better than that. If so we can make a meaningful difference. If not, then you will only stoke the flames. Choose wisely.
Michael Foye if cops were honorable they'd hold cops that break the LAW accountable , they don't ! That's the first evidence. If cops were honorable they would honor their oaths of office and not give credence to codes and statue over the law they swore to uphold. There's a second. And if cops were honorable they would bow down to Yahweh and the law He sent down, not satan's codes and statues that defy God's law in that statues oppress and steal the people's property by force or threat of bodily injury under color of law .
15,000 cases annually in a town with a population of only 10,000 residents? Even if as many as half of those citations are issued to non-residents just passing through, that still would mean that an overwhelming majority of the residents in this town are targeted for revenue collection an average of once per year. But it doesn't seem that they can entrap everybody. So they just heap multiple bogus claims onto the ones they can dredge or conjure up any fictitious infraction on.
When you realize who owns your home and driveway.
If you pay property taxes you dont own your property, youre renting it from the government.
Bobby Ray Victory 🎯🎯🎯🎯
Someone with OCD
@@bobbyrayvictory6905 truth
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
~Benjamin Franklin
Where are all you patriots come voting time?
We are outvoted by the feminists in the big, leftist cities who want neither liberty nor safety.
"All eyez on me."
- George Washington
Well said people must lay There differences aside and look at the bigger issues involving personal liberty.
@@edwardsmith5650 voting don't count if it did the Elites wouldn't allow it
The government has gone out of control with their ways of taxing people
Imagine if they used property taxes to fund the municipal government!
No more problems!
Don't move to Europe then. They way worse.
People too. Slumlords, landlords, gas stations, stores and all. Everyone wants more than they are worth.
Yeah, this is not how you build trust between public servants and the public.
Time to take a stand
Ticket Writing = revenue, when high taxes is not enough.
Joe De Jesus *aren’t enough.
@@Crux161 *taxation is not enough
Highest allowable property tax rate in the state.
julesoftheNW ugh, no. OP made a conjugation error. Don’t go adding words where they don’t belong, just fix the part that’s broken. 😛 Jeez.
Also, revenue isn’t the right word. Tax-revenue differs in that it comes from fees generated against individuals, companies, or other agencies.
Also, his comma was unnecessary - but that’s a different cat all together.
Wow, firewood police actually exist! I thought this was just one of my dystopian fantasies. These people are public servants who have clearly lost sight of their core purpose. Incredible !
Just to ask: Are the judges paid by the same city that their judgements fund?
they should also investigate how much the city officials are making in salaries. I have heard of mayors getting well over a hundred thousand dollars for basically a part time job.
Amen
ronald bouvette Our local mayor from a decade ago went to prison for fraud. He was making a lot more than a 100K a year. Had figured out how to pay himself out of non profit money. half a million that they could prove.
" Breaker,Breaker" with Chuck Norris, good movie.
The Devil Went Down to Georgia, indeed.
I knew it was this song but my mind just couldn't place it for some reason.... good pick for this topic too haha.
And he set up a traffic camera at the crossroads.
The Devil Went Down to Georgia--and stayed.
The devil is so popular in Georgia that he works for the government helping them out.
I live in Georgia for 27 years. I contacted the GBI that the town I lived in is making bogus tickets from code enforcement. They told me that there was nothing I could do about it. So glad you’re fighting for us! When the city officials found out I did this, I was harassed by police, code enforcement , and the dog pound for 5 years. My family was military and we moved to the city for the family env. What a lie that was!
This organization restores my LONG-lost faith in truly genuine “good works” by legal professionals.
This is a FANTASTIC channel & this guy just made my day. Hats off to IFJ!!! 👏👏👍👍
The BTK killer was a code enforcement officer, just saying. He went around measuring peoples grass and grabbing up dogs and had a collection of their collars and tags. Takes a special kind of sadist to work code enforcement. Before he was caught the kids in the neighborhood used to hide when he would drive by, figured it was just a silly kids game, seems they knew better than the adults.
Absolutely so right
American history/civics lesson time:
More government = bad.
Less government = good.
Tell it Shackleford!
Bad Government = BAD
Good Government = Good.
But lefties want more gov...
@@americanmambi Then why is it that Connie's always want to take my rights away? Like voting? Or having representation? Health Care, Social Security? Days off or vacations? Pensions? Things that all Connie Politicians want and get. But they don't want anyone else to have?
D27Rugen, yes but unfortunately, so do most righties.
Sounds like they're describing the federal government!
The FBI needs to follow that money. No question officials are finding ways to put some of that cash into their pockets.
I live in California and I fought code enforcement in a federal court lawsuit... I didn't win per say but I did prevail and help make change! !
Unfortunately most people do not have the recourses that you probably have to fight a government that will simply use tax payer money to fight your law suit while you are paying your lawyer with food and rent money.
I wonder how many of mayor's, judges's and and police relatives receive fines?
Keep up exposing the greed and corruption of the criminals who inserted themselves into government.
This was some years ago, but there was an undercover cop driving in a van next to my boyfriend and I. He was taking be back to college, and it was in a small town so we're out in the boonies. We didn't know, but up ahead the streets merged up ahead. The van next to us kept speed..just enough to be right next to us so we had a choice to either speed up after we suddenly saw the merging sign, or slow down. My boyfriend, now husband, sped up. It wasn't by much. Just enough to get around the douche who was clearly cock blocking us to pressure us into doing what he wanted. He wasn't considered speeding until he sped up to pass the van. The undercover cop turned his lights on to pull us over and gave my boyfriend a ticket. Which he had to go out of his way to pay making it harder to contest since it was far out from where he lives. That was a legitimate speed trap. He knew college students drove around there, and he knew what he was doing in that specific area when he was pinning us to push us to make the wrong decision cause otherwise we would've hit if we didn't go forward or back. It definitely makes people mistrust the justice system when they do crap like that, and I definitely think there needs to be retribution for the wrongdoing for an easy squeeze of revenue.
To add on with the video with the driveway, I'm pretty sure after she fixes it up it also means they can inflate on taxes. One of the reasons why people don't really go out of their way to make their place nice sometimes is because of that so she'd have to pay for the driveway and extra incentive via taxes due to an increase of property value 🙄
And about the guy who's making cool furniture, it's just another means of controlling resources because who wants productive people who can live apart from the bigger companies that help fund this ludicrous, corrupt system?
Judges are paid by the city they work for. They make judgements on citations where the city benefits. That is a conflict of interest
When the code enforcement officer comes up missing,maybe they will get the message
Hope they find him in a bag next to the court with no leads
Shhhhh. Heard one is under her new driveway.
throw him in a pig pen. they eat bones and all
@@Dakotatrails were we separated at birth? 😆😆
@@eddie10191 its possible, doppelgängers are everywhere
If you haven’t heard, Turbeville, SC does the speed trap to keep revenue coming in. It’s a dry town and the locals are sick of the traps.
Need GA to pass a law restricting to a % of revenue a town can use from fines. The excess must go to the state and slows the incentive
If you actually want people to slow down and drive more safely, you put marked cars out on the road where they are clearly visible to drivers. THAT gets people to actually slow down. Hiding the enforcement mechanism doesn't make people safer. It's just for taking people's money. In fact, it encourages people to unsafely brake when they finally see the speed trap, thus making roads MORE dangerous. The way to actually make the road safer is just to put an officer is a marked vehicle in the flow of traffic, driving safely as a clear example to others.
That cuts down on speeding but doesn't make money, the bottom line.
Reminds me of old west stagecoach robbers.
Word to Big Bird.
Why not just drive the speed limit and not get ticketed?
You'll have flying cars soon enough, "evolution"
Sounds like something straight from the minds of Boss Hogg and Rosco P. Coltrane.
Where do you suppose they got the idea? Hmm... ..not so funny anymore, huh?
Little bit of "Homer Simpson" as well.
Driveway is private property . I don't understand how they can fine you?
Cannot see how it is criminal. If they want to take civil action,maybe so. Would have to be liens,tax assessment, etc. Looks like they took it too far.
@Jeffrey Kelley: No doubt!
Jeffrey Kelley sure they do, corrup city officials stole the money for the roads, then they double dip by pulling over the motorists for weaving around the pot holes, "I stopped you for weaving"
Thanks for your service, keep exposing corruption.
This is where "Gubmint" has really gone off the rails, turning a matter of the condition of the driveway on a property belonging to a middle-aged, LAW ABIDING woman, without notice nor clear explanation of what would meet code, nor even a case that the condition of the driveway actually violated Doraville's municipal codes. It's "pitch forks and torches" time!
courts should never be for profit boycott any city that engages in this illegal activity
Search Leon valley police department, 13000 residents but made 2.6 million last year from 3 cameras
That is funny as hell man, all courts are for profit. Its BIG business!
They all do it!
AND SO IS DRIVING WHILE BLACK OR BROWN!@John
They are all for profit! Wake up people!
Waaaay back in the 1960's we all knew that driving through Georgia was risky because of its notorious reputation for bogus traffic tickets. It looks like some things never change. Fortunately, I no longer have a need to visit this state.
Criminal charges for cracks in a driveway where no one was injured, and no wrecks occurred because of it, ridiculous.
I hope and pray that the Institute for Justice will respond to my desperate plea for help after hurricane Harvey hit Rockport Texas and the city has made a motion (Oct22, 2018 hearing) to demolish my concrete block houses that don't have any damage except to the roof and the resulting water damage to the interior. These houses have survived numerous hurricanes since the 1960's and been repaired, but these days Texas Wind Insurance (TWIA) is not paying claims, contractors are tripling their prices and the code enforcers are demanding thousands of dollars in engineering, architectural and other expenses that don't have anything to do with fixing the darn roof. To add far greater misery to the hurricane, I even had an engineer tell me that she herself couldn't afford to replace her own windows due to the "certification" required and the lack of simple competition among mfrs due to the legal and regulatory requirements of storm window "certification."
We just want to repair the roof and hurricane water damage and the city of Rockport wants to knock down the houses at our expense because we can't pay for THEIR UNNECESSARY REGULATORY REQS on top of the inflated prices charged during a disaster...HELP!!!!!!!
--Charles L Foster
I was pulled over and taken to jail there. Cop said I was changing lanes without singling... Came to my car and said it smelled to good.. So they had to see if I was covering up a smell. I get out and they fine something they thought was marijuana. So to jail I go, they take my car when my friend was there and willing to take the car back home but no. I spend the night in jail, for nothing at all. Get bail, go home. Later that year we go to court, and they try to take the vid. Witch was all my evidence, so the judge said no. We watch the vid and find out he lied. Boom, non marijuana, and no lane change bio. $75 and I go home. Point being, they lied, planted weed on me, took my car, and more. I beat the case because of a good lawyer. Stay away from that county. Speed traps at both exits. Most nights of the week.
You should've sued the motherfuckers for wasting your time and money
BS story
You didn't sue the cops?
DEAD COP HAS NO MORE WET DREAMS!
@@seabarnes3570 how do those city boots taste?
I live in the Northeast. Our taxes on our property is higher. But, towns make NOTHING from a speeding ticket. Towns here are reluctant to go after homeowners for “code violations,” unless there are other homeowners who are asking them to correct issues of blight and neglect. In other words, the operating budget for our town comes from taxes, not from getting their local police all ginned up to fulfill quotas for ticket-writing.
As a result, we do not have this tension between residents and government. Residents trust our government more.
For a number of years, the town that I work in had Red Light Cameras. At these locations the yellow lights had a duration of 1 second. The town generated lots of revenue from these traps. Luckily, a member of our State Legislature fought such practices and had the cameras removed.
"Devil Went Down to Georgia" played at the beginning of the video. 😃
I totally agree that speed traps are generally for revenue and not public safety, but I wish the local sheriff would put one up on my street....50 in a 30 just doesn't work for me.
Her driveway looks like our city streets and SH here in LRAR.
"Devil went down to Georgia" perfect song for this video. Lol
This happens all over this nation, it's gotten to the point where you are afraid to go anywhere. But law enforcement wants us to respect them, Respect is earned not just given. how can we respect them when they act like crooks.
Obey the damned law, and , guess what?, no speeding tickets!!!! Are you people really that dense that you can't figure that out??
What about getting pulled over because your tires touched the center line- of course first thing they ask is "have you been drinking"- obviously you are weaving uncontrollably to do something so heinous. Or not using your turn signal when turning onto a one way street? Or how about turning on their flashing lights just to blast through an intersection, just to turn them off once through? Or writing citations for littering when people throw cigarette butts down, but when a cop throws one out of his police vehicle (in which smoking is not allowed) and it is reported-- well, we'll look into it. All personal experiences.
Friend of mines son trained to be an officer in northern Virginia. Getting close to graduation, gave it up; policy was to "patrol aggressively", pull someone over and see what all you can cite them for. After experiencing this on ride alongs, saw this was an abuse of authority.
My father was a career federal law enforcement officer; I grew up around city, state, FBI and even INTERPOL officers. These guys were professionals. Most of the police I encounter today are big mouth arrogant asses with a gun and a badge that believe in threats, fear and intimidation. They constantly harass and badger anyone they know has a record, especially young women. They're not protecting the community, they're nothing but bullies. Sorry, I have very little respect for today's law enforcement that are only "doing their jobs."
Bullshit. If everyone stayed at exactly the speed limit or less they start giving out "1 mph over" tickets, or "you signaled your turn at 99 feet instead of the required 100ft" and so on and so on. They WILL get the revenue they are after by any means until they are stopped. Unfortunately they only way to stop them is to try and use the corrupt and broken system that allows them to do this stuff in the first place.
Only mistake the town made was going after it's own citizens..... A sheriff's depety told me that he was told to give warrnings to county residents for minor traffic infractions because if they ticketed too many residents it would be difficult at the Sheriff election
Funny how that works. BTW, that's almost any town USA.
Police departments should be abolished. Cheif's and policies appointed by politicians. It doesn't follow "of the people, by the people, for the people" like the sheriff who is elected by the people in his district.
Where they have town meetings they can't get enough town's people to the meetings to have a quorum
What was the outcome with Doraville? Acworth, GA does the same with speed traps. They now have speed cameras to issue tickets to people passing through along some of the rural highways that pass through their city limits.
It all started when they added court costs to your fine. Growing up in the 70's ,you paid the fine and that was it. They saw a gold mine .
Has to be a outrageously high overhead method of collecting revenue on top of everything else.
I'm so happy you made this. I avoid Doraville at all costs. Savannah, Tennessee is a town you need to check into as a speed trap.
The town got away with it because this case went to another judge who dismissed summery judgment. Now that’s a big surprise.
Why do I feel I am going to need the institute for justice one day.
Put a sign in your yard that says, taking pictures of this yard will cost you $1000000, 5 million if you don't ask permission first.
It’s private property! You do what you want to your own PROPERTY
Do you pay "Property Taxes? If "Yes", then, Who you pay owns what you think is 'your' Property. Fail to pay for 3 to 5 years (depending on the County), and you'll find out who owns 'your' property.
yup... property tax = rent
So the surface outside the courthouse has cracks in it?
It has happened to me and my family several times, me to the point that i can no longer work to provide, and i am terrified for my families safety. We NEED help!!!
My son-in-law came to visit with his family a couple of weeks ago and took a shortcut (he's familiar with the area) over a small mountain in our town. It's a road everyone takes. Lately, the GPS system has changed the route for Truckers and they are sending huge trucks over that road. There are few houses on the road, but when the trucks come down the hill into town, they use Jake Brakes and create a lot of noise and they have trouble slowing down. The people on the road asked the town to do something about it so the police patrol there often.
Their solution is; ticket anyone going over the 35 MPH limit especially on the straight level sections. My Son-in-law was ticketed for 38 in a 35 zone coming over the crest of a hill where you have to immediately get on the brakes or you will be going 45 in 3 seconds. He was driving a car, not a tractor trailer. That section has no houses or any critical situations. Nothing there!
Police do the absolute easiest thing to generate revenue and that's having a speed gun to grab the dollars. I come over that road quite often and as a test, I drive absolutely at the posted speed, and I get a line behind me a half mile long with the guy behind me flashing his lights, honking his horn, and riding 2 feet from my bumper. Some of them will pass me over the solid line and pass around the corners. We can all go past the police car parked there in his favorite spot and no-one get pulled over.
My wife called my cell phone one day and I pulled off the road to answer it. While talking to her, a town cop pulled behind me and came to my window, asking for my license and Registration. He tried to tell me I was "Impeding Traffic". He wanted to know why I pulled over there. I said I was off the road and pulled there to answer my cell phone. He said I couldn't use the phone while I was driving. I reminded him that I was "off the road", and he decided to give me a verbal warning. I was going to ask what the warning was for but decided to act contrite and leave. By the way, the traffic I was impeding didn't show up for the 10 minutes we were there. Nobody went by. The words "Rent-a-Cop" went through my mind several times.
I got fined for having wood stacked on my driveway. The truck delivered half a cord of wood to my driveway. The next day I stacked the wood under my porch, but between 3:30 PM one day and about noon the next day, a local officer came out and took a picture of my driveway,
Charles Long are u sure it wasn’t someone from Homes & Garden? 😊😜
I had no idea how ridiculous America's rules/laws until I came across this channel. It's totally different from most countries in Asia.
This is what happens year after year when it is a republikan ran government!😭🤦♀️💸✌🏼
Pretty much the same in the UK, speed cameras are often not in high risk areas for pedestrians, they are just used as an easy income generation tool.
Vote the Mayor and if you can, the city Attorney (DA) out.
June 4, 2019, Doraville will be in federal court defending their "revenue based enforcement" policy.
What was the result
result the was what
@@aaronstorey9712 I just checked. In July the citizens won the right to sue the city. The city must respond to the citizens complaint within a given time period.
When towns rely on the revenue from traffic violations.. there is a SERIOUS problem.
This happened to my father in Milwaukee, WI in the 1950's. He tore down an old garage with a couple of additions, stacked the wood neatly 1 foot or more off the ground. He build a nice garage and a half in place of the dilapidated one. The neighbors complained that they saw rats around the wood pile. What everyone ignored was the fact that the same neighbors had just had their asphalt siding removed from their house, placed directly on the ground in a large pile the size of a small car, and this pile DID have rats nesting in it. My father had to get rid of his wood pile.
The Bible says the world is given into the hands of the wicked.
People should go to the houses of these code enforcement officers and take pictures.
Let's call this what it is... Organized Crime!!!!
The Liberty......
I have to disagree, they are CRIMINALS alright but they are NOT very organized. Just ask Houston PD.
@@maryjones2222 When you look deeply into the incestuous relationships between prosecutors, judges and police you will find they are far more organized than what shows on the surface.
There is an all out war on We the People and it is being carried out in a very perverse and covert way.
You have to look across the broad spectrum of what is supposed to be the "Justice System" to really see the big picture of how it has been weaponised against us.
There are very dark and evil forces amassing against humanity in general and the reality is that they are very organized and we are not.
RICO CHARGES!
"if you have a city, you need to be able to fund the city"
if you have a city, you shouldnt pay for pointless stuff that shouldnt be under the governments control, and you wouldnt have financial problems.
0:38 "...sentenced to criminal probation because of the condition of this driveway." - InstituteForJustice
The new king of the United States is thousands of unconstitutional laws.
Also, someone should notify IRS on the police prosecutors and judges
The same city that fined you for cracks and gravel in your driveway is also the same city with potholes. Is the city being criminally charged??
If your cities economy depends on fines, your city is doing something extremely wrong
Thanks. Good luck with the suit
Did anyone else other that me see all of the cracks in the pavement out front of city hall? Is someone going to arrest the Mayor and the City Manager?
I lived in a small speed trap town. They never had a police department, but the council voted to hire a few officers. They loved to stop people and then claim they were not wearing their seatbelt. They pulled me over. When they learned that I live in town, they let me go, saying they dont write tickets to people who live in town. The problem they wrote tickets to people who didnt live there, but were related to people who are. Complaints were made. The coucil disbanded the police dept adter less than a year.
This is exactly why I will never travel through Georgia. When I was younger they did the same thing to my father and my father wasn't even speeding but how do you prove that when you are from out-of-state. I was in the car with my father so I know what speed he was going at. My father never drove fast he was always a Slowpoke if anything. This was 30 years ago so I can only imagine how much ruthlessness has occurred since then. I pray for those people and any other city that citizens are going through this. Don't forget though God will have the last word on these type of people.
A city does not flourish as a city if it was not for the residents that live there.
If all of the residents moved out it would be a ghost town and the city or town would lose big time in the long run, better yet get rid of the cops, what other gang in the United States is able to investigate their own investigations and get away with a majority of there own criminal conduct....?
Nobody else is and that is a fact.
So much for there tyrannical revenue, and just for the record taking taxes from American citizens is actually criminal and unconstitutional, and they know this.
Pathetic.
Take a Real Good Look PEOPLE! This is only test town!
Well done ; do keep us informed on the outcome.
If they got rid of half of the code enforcement staff and half of the cops, they could probably stop fining citizens over having a wood pile or a driveway.
Those pig's front windows are also tinted beyond code
Legalized extortion at it's finest. If you don't pay up, they will protect and serve the #uck out of you.
Filming without a license from the city? Yeah there's gonna be a fine for that -Doraville Police
Towns like this especially police are so corrupt. If the police ever try to give a person a speeding ticket while they're making a turn or going around a curve. You can always challenge the ticket in court. Radar is known to give false readings on curves. Oftentimes the radar will read another car. But the first vehicle that pulls over is the first vehicle to get the ticket. A lot of times the police officer won't show up to court and the ticket is automatically thrown out. The speeding radar reading is almost never saved and without that in court the ticket is usually thrown out of Court.
It is called extortion and that is illegal....
Badges are Redcoats. Revenue generators. Yet the sheeple blindly cry freedom.
My goodness, you have laws about cracked drive ways, and logs on your own property, so much for the “ Land of the Free!
I take it you are in the UK, certainly viewed from here, such things are utterly ridiculous.
I've heard of cases where a person has been told by the local council they have to sort out whatever is seen as unacceptable but you would really have to work hard to end up in court.
In Ontario Canada no one cares if your driveway is broken up.
You rarely see frivolous bylaw charges. But a few pop up here and there.
Usually thrown out in court.
Over zealous bylaw enforcement.
The biggest thing here is , why is it a criminal charge.
The USA is hardly the land of the free!
I always wonder if municipalities who resort to such egregious fundraising methods as fines are making up for the fact that their taxes are too low. The citizens end up paying one way or another.