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%.
Literally "mercenaries take over a medieval peasant town and hold it hostage" shit
It's not even that uncommon. This bullshit happens all over the US, and since the US is 5,000 Sheriff's fiefdoms pretending to be a real country nothing is done about it until the Feds maybe notice after years of abuse and make the piggies sign some consent agreement bullshit.
And, you know, asset forfeiture, which is just this but scaled up. Man fuck the cops.
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