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Shuts and Failures

by Michael Maiello

Utah Cops Shake Down Foreign Tourists

by NCD 7/7/2012 - 1:42 pm

'Third world' style law enforcement in the GOP bastion of limited government and freedom, Utah:

By nate carlisle

|The Salt Lake Tribune

 
First Published Jun 11 2012 08:11 am • Last Updated Jun 12 2012 10:06 am

SPRINGDALE • Police in the town that promotes itself as "The Gateway to Zion National Park" wrote citations to foreign tourists, required them to pay cash and didn’t document the fines, according to a Utah State audit released Monday.

Also, perhaps thousands of dollars in fines collected by Springdale police are missing, the audit says. Auditors can’t be sure because Springdale police kept poor records.....

Read the full article at http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/54246295-78/police-springdale-tourists-audit.html.csp

The ticket book should be numbered and each officer assigned the ticket book, the way waitresses are.

All copies of the tickets should be kept at the court in chronological order, to prevent fraud.

Always ask to see the radar readout; but know this; if a jurisdiction doesn't keep them in order, it's hard to prove a crooked cop.  

How convenient for speed trap towns.

It's real easy to defraud the public, when an officer can issue the same ticket, to multiple drivers, without clearing the radar gun of the original infraction.

If the tickets are in chronological order, it would be easy to spot 20 or more issued tickets, for the same 60 mph in a 40 mph zone.

As you review for your defense, you see a ticket at 6:00 AM for  a 60 in a 40  and at 4:00 PM every ticket issued that day, is for the exact same 60 in a 40, you know something is up.

So to hide this money making scheme, jurisdictions mix up the tickets; just try and find the needle in the haystack.

by Resistance 7/8/2012 - 5:40 am

Never had a problem in Utah. Do we need to bash a whole state as a "bastion" of something for 1 ticket scandal in a small town?

by PeraclesPlease 7/8/2012 - 2:41 pm

What in the south we would refer to as "Yanky trappin"

by cmaukonen 7/8/2012 - 8:43 pm

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