Using unmarked police cars and uniforms without insignia, the town with no traffic lights collected $487 in fines and forfeitures in 2020 for every man, woman and child. Total town income more than doubled from 2018 to 2020 – from $582,000 to more than $1.2 million – as fines and forfeitures rose 640%.
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    3 years ago

    By last summer, he said in a deposition, Brookside had hired eight additional full-time officers and several part-timers... Then this month the Brookside department posted on Facebook that it had hired six more officers “in an effort to expand our dedication and ...

    The police state is expanding, to meet the needs of the expanding police state.