This kind of shit is why I don't leave the highways when travelling. This is brigandage. Any functional government would send troops in and have a show trial followed by a barbecue.
I can't overstate this; This isn't a policing issue, this is brigandage. Highway robbery, but not in the funny modern "I'm paying to much" sense. The answer to this kind of behavior is public executions and crow cages.
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.
Fucking coward ass reporters can't even call this organized theft and racketeering. What the fuck is the media even for?
You can't argue with a crow cage. It sends a message. Don't fuck with travelers and pilgrims.
Officers, dressed completely in dark, unmarked uniforms approached her,
Absolutely incredible way to :fuck-around: hell I wouldn't be surprised if one of these dumbass pigs shoots one of his buddies by accident
How's the Big Pig gonna stuff his matress with cash if he has to pay for badges and embroidered name tape?
Brookside Police Chief Mike Jones, who spearheaded the change and grew the police department tenfold, at least, calls the town’s policing “a positive story.” Mayor Mike Bryan – a former councilman who assumed his position last year after the death of the previous mayor – sits and nods in agreement.
Police stops soared between 2018 and 2020. Fines and forfeitures – seizures of cars during traffic stops, among other things – doubled from 2018 to 2019. In 2020 they came to $610,000. That’s 49% of the small town’s skyrocketing revenue.
When Jones was hired as chief in 2018, he was the only full-time police officer, he said in sworn testimony for a lawsuit filed against him and the city. By last summer, he said in a deposition, Brookside had hired eight additional full-time officers and several part-timers.
A department of nine officers in a 1,253-person town is far larger than average. Across the country, the average size of a force is one officer for every 588 residents, according to a Governing Magazine study that examined federal statistics.
By 2020 officers in the sleepy town were undergoing SWAT training and dressing in riot gear, even as the city continued with only a volunteer fire department. It parked a riot control vehicle outside the municipal complex and community center
Pigs being pigs
𝓐𝓷𝓭 𝓘'𝓶 𝓹𝓻𝓸𝓾𝓭 𝓽𝓸 𝓫𝓮 𝓪𝓷 𝓐𝓶𝓮𝓻𝓲𝓬𝓪𝓷
𝓦𝓱𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓪𝓽 𝓵𝓮𝓪𝓼𝓽 𝓘 𝓴𝓷𝓸𝔀 𝓘'𝓶 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝓮
𝓐𝓷𝓭 𝓘 𝔀𝓸𝓷'𝓽 𝓯𝓸𝓻𝓰𝓮𝓽 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓶𝓮𝓷 𝔀𝓱𝓸 𝓭𝓲𝓮𝓭
𝓦𝓱𝓸 𝓰𝓪𝓿𝓮 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓻𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽 𝓽𝓸 𝓶𝓮
𝓐𝓷𝓭 𝓘'𝓭 𝓰𝓵𝓪𝓭𝓵𝔂 𝓼𝓽𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓾𝓹 𝓷𝓮𝔁𝓽 𝓽𝓸 𝔂𝓸𝓾
𝓐𝓷𝓭 𝓭𝓮𝓯𝓮𝓷𝓭 𝓗𝓮𝓻 𝓼𝓽𝓲𝓵𝓵 𝓽𝓸𝓭𝓪𝔂
'𝓒𝓪𝓾𝓼𝓮 𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓪𝓲𝓷'𝓽 𝓷𝓸 𝓭𝓸𝓾𝓫𝓽
𝓘 𝓵𝓸𝓿𝓮 𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓼 𝓵𝓪𝓷𝓭
𝓖𝓸𝓭 𝓑𝓵𝓮𝓼𝓼 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓤.𝓢.𝓐.
Ah yeah that's exactly wtf was happening in the last town I lived. I got pulled over in a fucking parking lot, while pulling out of my parking spot, for not wearing a seatbelt lmao
And the rolling stop bullshit. I stopped, he knows I stopped, but it's impossible to prove otherwise.
Everyone was getting pulled in that town all the fucking time for petty shit. The cops got some sort of fancy military rescue tank thing this year btw. forget what's it's called, basically it's a mobile fortress.
Who the fuck knows what they're planning on doing with it, or which one of them could even drive it. Probably just going to take turns jerking off on it.
The MRAP "tanks" are badly made shit left over from the Iraq war. They're expensive to operate and expensive to maintain. Plus, a lot of them are so top heavy that a lot of them can't even handle mild grades. If you ever have to run away from one the trick is, I am told, to walk diagonally up a hill and wait for it to roll over if the untrained cop driver tries to follow you.
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.
