A Wisconsin road has added a decimal point to its speed limit — in the hope that the unusual traffic sign will catch attention.... but it's pointless... the speed limit is 17 mph, it's a rare person that pays ANY attention to a speed limit under 20 mph

what makes this even more absurd, is that it's inside a city dump facility in Appleton Wisconsin.

It's not even on normal city streets. So, this is just stupid. 

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/wisconsin-decimal-point-speed-limit-recycling-facility-b2966490.html

https://www.facebook.com/OutagamieCountyRecycling/posts/pfbid0QnRhQ3LvBsgjQ9EeDYJC51JYMNDrGt6tgA8PVxLez3HeGW1D1c9DkjuqFd3ga5Rdl

You're about to hear a lot of groans, moans, and bellyaching from New Yorkers... the mayor just decided that 24/7, 365, the speed limit in New York school zones - is 15 MPH.

The speed limit will be lowered to 15 mph around all the city’s thousands of schools by 2029, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Monday – as insiders quietly revealed the slow-as-dirt zones will be enforced 24/7.

“If this were really about protecting the children, why would it be 24 hours a day?”

His new push will lower 20 mph speed limits in roughly 700 school zones, and establish 100 new 15-mph zones by the end of this year.

Altogether, 15 mph speed limits will come to 800 more school zones – or 1,300 citywide – by the end of 2026, officials said.

The new limits will become official after a 60-day public comment period, officials said.

City Department of Transportation officials will eventually expand the lower speed limits to all 2,300 public and private school locations across the city when Mamdani’s first term ends, the mayor said.

city officials going back decades have supported lowering speed limits to 15 mph, including former Mayor Rudy Giuliani in 1999.

https://nypost.com/2026/03/16/us-news/mayor-zohran-mamdani-will-lower-speed-limits-to-15-mph-in-school-zones-sources/

motorists could decide for themselves what a decent velocity was in Michigan, until 1956. And the very lucrative business of passing out speeding tickets was born.

 

This day in Michigan history, 1956 :

 Michigan Motorists Can No Longer Determine Their Own Speed Limit! 

On February 3, 1956 highway speed limits of 65 miles per hour by day and 55 by night went into effect in Michigan. 

Prior to this motorists could determine what was safe and reasonable.

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=734678299664826&set=gm.1994225974768026&idorvanity=1588341628689798

How about no more speed limit on boring long straight uneventful Arizona interstates? I'm all for it. No one is very likely to drive much more than a 100... and most already are going 80, there isn't much difference.

Arizona Rep. Nick Kupper has an idea that could make the state’s highways decidedly less mundane by removing speed limits on certain rural roads during the daytime. Even at night, the proposal suggests that 80 miles per hour is plenty safe on a route like Interstate 8 south of Casa Grande.

House Bill 2059 after practices in Montana and Germany, with the latter being famous among gearheads for its autobahns. While some German autobahns feature posted speed limits, others do not. That means anybody in a V12 supercar can fly by VW Golf hatchbacks at top speed without worry of being pulled over.

“Both found that roughly 83% of drivers stayed around 77 mph because that’s where they feel comfortable,” Kupper explained. “Drivers in these zones tend to keep a closer relative speed to each other compared to speed limit zones which is a major factor in why these zones are actually safer.”

The RAPID Act specifically says that derestricted speed zones can only be designated “outside an urbanized area with a population of 50,000 or more persons.” Additionally, the highway segment must have a crash rate below the statewide average based on data from the last five years.

https://www.thedrive.com/news/arizona-bill-considers-removing-speed-limits-from-rural-interstates

this isn't for my readers, it's for my readers to show morons. We all know a moron...

 

the fastest posted speed limit in the United States is on the 41-mile stretch of Texas State Highway 130, a toll road southeast of Austin, it has a posted speed limit of 85 mph

The state spent time thoughtfully selecting this corridor and building it with a wide footprint, few side accesses, and clear lines of sight. The 85 mph speed limit was officially sanctioned in 2012.

https://www.eldiario24.com/en/americas-speed-record-driving-highway/24775/

frankly, it's time for logical rational thinking to come to bear on the overlooked aspect of typical average ordinary commuter cars in 2025, vs the cars that speed limits were referencing when the speed limits were set. 

Example, a 1940 Ford, Chevy, Pontiac, Plymouth, Nash, Studebaker, Packard, etc were common cars in 1952. 

The interstates were built in 1948-52 when suspensions and brakes, sucked. Steering wasn't engineered very well either, the amount of slop in steering boxes was still getting adjusted by a set screw. Tires were bias ply garbage, brakes were manual, not power, steering was manual, not power

So, speed limits that we have today haven't changed much in 75 years, (from 1950-2025) but cars have come so far from what they were, more than the difference between the best race cars in 1950 and commuters of 1950. In my opinion, a basic Honda right now could outperform a 1950 Gran Prix car. A Dodge Hellcat right now can easily outperform a top fueler of 1950. A Hyundai Stinger would beat a race 1955 Corvette. 

So what is the basis for setting a speed limit on the interstate when they were made? Braking distance? Steering? 

How can the speed limit based on standard 1940s cars and semis (lets not forget them!) logically be applied to vehicles like a commuter car, like a Camry, or a Volvo semi, when vehicles on the road today are on average, 15 years old, have radial tires with double the contact patch of a 1950s commuter, with better rubber compounds, and better tread pattern for steering and braking... 

And in the 70s the oil crisis drove the speed limits down for gas/oil - but that no longer applies based on the oil glut of 2020 that brought a barrel of oil to -35, every oil container in the country was full, and can be any time the oil companies go back to full output. 

Why shouldn't the speed limit outside of city limits be 85 or 90 for commuters? 

Not that I think many people are driving long distance on interstates, obviously few people drive between cites in the interstates, most people drive under 14000 miles a year, and a round trip for me to Vegas from San Diego is 700... that's just one days driving. Most people are not road tripping to other big cities for SEMA. 

But when getting from A to B, especially for cargo transportation, when everything we order on Amazon is getting moved by semis, and the airlines are in chaos, and the FAA isn't paying the air traffic controllers, it would be better to not be limited to 65 or 70 mph when getting across midwest states - no, I'm not talking about Rhode frickin Island, or Hawaii. I'm talking about California, Nevada, Arizona, Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Wyoming, north and south Dakota, Nebraska, etc etc. getting 10 or 20 miles farther every hour adds up when you're driving 5 hours straight.

5 hours at 20 miles more per hour, takes a 350 mile trip from a 5 hour trip to a 4 hour trip. That's math.   

“Victory Speed,” 35 miles-per-hour, was initiated nationwide in May 1942. (I've never heard of it until now) but keep in mind, we did not yet have an interstate highway system. The first such highway, the Pennsylvania Turnpike, had only partially opened in 1940 (speed limit was set at 70 after initially having no speed limit).

 The reduction in speed saved fuel and doubled the life of tires compared to speeds of 60 miles per hour. Victory Speed had an effect on nearly everyone, but was particularly difficult for a few factory workers in states like Kansas and Ohio, some of whom were traveling 80 miles or more to and from their jobs at Beech, Cessna, or Goodyear.

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/automobile-rationing-world-war-ii

The power to set speed limits historically belonged to the states, and the sole exception to this occurred during World War II, when the U.S. Office of Defense Transportation established a national maximum "Victory Speed Limit" of 35 miles per hour, in addition to gasoline and tire rationing, to help conserve fuel and rubber for the American war effort.

 Although it was disregarded by some motorists, the Victory Speed Limit lasted from May 1942 to August 14, 1945, when the war ended

WAAC (Women's Army Auxiliary Corps) photo:

https://www.loc.gov/resource/afc2001001.30059.ph0002001/?sp=2&r=-0.1,0.34,1.194,0.713,0

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Maximum_Speed_Law

Even though there was no gasoline shortage, gasoline rationing was introduced as a way to curb excessive driving, which, in turn, preserved tires, because the real problem was lack of rubber for tires, since the Japanese had overrun the rubber plantations of the Dutch East Indies – where the US imported 90 percent of its rubber.

Finally, the victory speed was introduced to conserve tire tread.

https://www.northernpublicradio.org/wnij-news/2021-09-27/this-week-in-illinois-history-victory-speed-october-1-1942

From the fall of  '42 until June of  '43, officers could not arrest or prosecute anyone for exceeding 35 miles-per-hour, because the official limit remained at 50, but the rationing authorities were known to take away gas-rationing coupons from speed violators.

Later that year, in Cass County, North Dakota, a speeder got arrested and fined, on December 8th, for exceeding the limit, and he appealed his case all the way to the state supreme court. The court eventually ruled that Governor Moses had exceeded his authority in changing the speed limit, and, thus, the court overturned the Victory Speed limit and the speeding ticket.

And so the Dakota speed limit reverted to 50 in December of 1944. The governor, being slowed by the courts, said he would not try to impose the Victory Speed limit again.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2030822207183428/posts/3834439103488387

Grumman ran a warning to workers, showing a photo of a Nassau police lieutenant questioning a factory worker who had strayed five blocks from his work-to-home route. Nassau and Suffolk police told Grumman there would be no “second chances” for drivers. The Sunday before, five Grummanites had been caught “joyriding” and permanently lost their gas ration coupons. Police were known to cruise the parking lots of taverns, bowling centers, and “other places of amusement” for cars that were out of place.

Another sticker in the windshield of WWII automobiles was a Wartime Motor Vehicle Use Tax stamp—a new one every month. The tax varied by the time of the year, drivers paying between 42 cents (June) and five dollars (July) per month to own and operate their car. July’s $5 fee was roughly equivalent to $76.00 in today’s dollars. The tax on automobiles in America was initiated from February of 1942 and lasted until well after the war had ended, in June of 1946. For those who paid for their car monthly throughout the entire war (and beyond) they shelled out $136.43, equal to roughly $2,080 in 2021 dollars. 

The motor vehicles referred to in the act included automobiles, trucks, and motorcycles that used public highways. Motor Vehicle Use stamps were sold at post offices.

This tax was instituted largely to encourage people to take public transportation.

And those that purchased the stamps, were contributing the war effort. According to the commissioner of Internal Revenue, the motor vehicle use tax affected more individuals than all other categories of federal taxes combined.

Available information on the estimated distribution of ownership of family automobiles by family income groups in 1935-1936 indicates that almost 52 percent of the passenger cars were then owned by families with annual income of not more than $1,500. A comparison of the $5 automotive use tax with average automobile registration fees in the States reveals that the $5 Federal-use tax is equal to 27 percent of the average State registration fee in one State and 195 percent in another…

“Data on the distribution of motor vehicles by community-size classes, indicate that more than half of the burden of the $5 use tax falls on communities with 10,000 persons or less and that 31 percent of the burden falls on those living on farms and in unincorporated areas.”

The stamps for 1945 and 1946 show Daniel Manning, a banker, journalist and Democrat politician who served as secretary of the Department of the Treasury under President Grover Cleveland from 1885 to 1887. Manning was also pictured on an 1886 silver certificate. Why the Liberty Bell was replaced by Manning, someone who really had made zero mark in history, is unknown. No doubt, a relative of his got that done around midnight with a bribe. It really would be interesting to know the truth

Coast Guard Boat stamps were once required in 13 states and Washington

https://www.ebay.com/itm/355366161324

https://www.mysticstamp.com/rv1-1942-209-motor-vehicle-use-tax-light-green-gum-on-back/

https://enotrans.org/article/the-federal-tax-on-driving-an-automobile-1942-1946/

Fees, frustrations, and slowly fading tires curtailed the number of private cars on the road significantly. By 1945, household car ownership in the US had dipped to around 73 percent (from 88 percent in 1941), a rate roughly equal to Great Depression numbers of 1935 and 1936.

Ancient varieties of tires were not rationed, leading some workers to appropriate outdated Ford Model T type automobiles. Model Ts debuted in 1908. As Douglas’ periodical put it, “nobody will steal it and he can eventually sell it to the movies, if it does not fall apart on him some day.”

Goodyear employee Donald Ladd had a Model T nicknamed “the vibrator.” He bought it for $10 because the original owner preferred that the machine not go into the junk pile. The 1923 vintage automobile never let Ladd down, even chugging to work in sub-zero Ohio temperatures.

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/automobile-rationing-world-war-ii

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/may-15/seventeen-states-put-gasoline-rationing-into-effect

http://collectorgene.com/2012/05/victory-speed-%E2%80%93-the-road-to-victory-was-slow/

https://www.storycityhistory.org/rationing-and-victory-gardens.html

https://www.facebook.com/vetshistoryproject/posts/dyk-that-there-was-a-war-speed-limit-also-known-as-the-victory-speed-limit-set-t/966219358866689/

By mid-1941, Congress was addressing the prospect of being drawn into war.

In order to pay for all this, the Treasury Secretary went to the House Ways and Means Committee on April 24 to ask for an additional $3.5 billion per year in tax revenue for national defense. At the afternoon session that day, Assistant Secretary John L. Sullivan proposed to raise the $3.5 billion per year one-third from progressive income tax, one-third from corporation income tax, and one-third from excise taxes on commodities.

Of the excise taxes, Treasury proposed raising tobacco taxes enough to raise an additional $200 million per year, increasing alcohol taxes enough to raise an extra $178 million per year, and increasing the gasoline excise tax by 1 cent per gallon (from 1.5 cpg to 2.5 cpg), which would be enough to raise an additional $255 million per year.

After Treasury had presented the Administration’s revenue plan, the committee adjourned for the weekend. The following week, they held open hearings. Motorist and trucking groups showed up at the Ways and Means hearings prepared to oppose the Administration’s gasoline tax increase, but by that point, committee chairman Robert Doughton (D-NC) had released his own proposal, which killed the gasoline tax increase in favor of a new tax on the operation of motor vehicles and boats

The tax was opposed by the Roosevelt Administration. Assistant Secretary Sullivan gave the Senate Finance Committee a list of objections to the House-passed bill that sound familiar even today:

“The proposed tax has no relationship to the extent or use of the value of the object taxed and, therefore, is unusually inequitable.”
“…if [a driver] uses [a car] on 1 day in the week we charge him just as much as the taxicab that runs 24 hours a day except when it is laid up for repairs.”
“It taxes a $5,000 town car exactly the same $5 as the fifth-hand car worth only $20.”

“This proposed use tax must be collected from 32,000,000 taxpayers located throughout every State and county in the country. This would require an additional personnel in the Bureau of Internal Revenue of at least 3,800 new employees. The administrative cost is estimated to be $9,600,000 or approximately $6 of every $100 of tax collected, which is more than five times the average cost of collecting other excise taxes.”

In response to the Administration’s objections, the Senate amended the bill so that most of the administrative cost was borne by the Post Office

In the State of Arizona, which has a small population, law enforcement apprehended more than 7,000 delinquents. Practically all of the 7,000 submitted $5 offers in compromise rather than take the cases into the Federal courts.

https://enotrans.org/article/the-federal-tax-on-driving-an-automobile-1942-1946/

karma strikes unexpectedly to those that complain about speeders! HA!

85 year old Rose Hammond pushed authorities in Sylvania Township Ohio, for years, to lower the 55 mph speed limit on a two-lane road that passes her assisted living community, a church, two schools and a busy park that hosts numerous youth sports leagues.

“What are you waiting for, somebody to get killed?” Rose chided officials in northwest Ohio, complaining that nothing was being done about the motorcycles that race by almost daily.

Amid growing public pressure, Sylvania Township asked county engineers in March to analyze whether Mitchaw Road’s posted speed is too high. The surprising answer: Technically, it’s 5 mph too low.

https://apnews.com/article/speed-limits-85-rule-safety-ohio-0bcc07bd9bd0c9cae2cffc11512cd95f

All states surrounding North Dakota went to an 80-mph speed limit years ago, and now, North Dakota will become the next US state to allow legal speeds of 80 mph ( into effect August 1st) on stretches of multi-lane highway (up from 75)

The North Dakota Legislature turned to South Dakota its southern neighbor for some real-world statistics. South Dakota raised its speed limit on most limited-access highways to 80 mph in 2015. In the years since, there's been no appreciable change in crashes or fatalities.

Minnesota still remains at 70 mph... and that's not likely to change because of the larger population 

https://www.motor1.com/news/758889/north-dakota-80-mph-speed-limit/

tricky technicality, and I doubt anyone will factually ever use it, but it makes for a good story

The National Transportation Safety Board wants a new technology called intelligent speed assistance installed in every new U.S. car to prevent speeding, instead of installing breathalyzers to prevent drunk driving, or intensive (world class) drivers license education

It’s been met by auto manufacturers with little enthusiasm, and the recommendation has not yet been adopted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

“There are lots of things we can tweak that make crashes less likely and lethal, but one of the most powerful things we can do is slow cars,” said Isabella Chu, associate director of the data core at the Stanford Center for Population Health Sciences.

“Nagging people to abide by speeding laws only works once in a while,” he said. “A more natural place to focus is on car design.”

Zipper said there’s no reason for anyone to travel more than 20 mph over the speed limit on any road, and the dangers associated with that kind of speeding are avoidable “if we install this well-known technology.”

Speeding is only implicated in about 1/3rd of road deaths

https://news.yahoo.com/news/cars-built-speed-limits-think-212202700.html

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1998494310531373&set=a.105865999794223

I guess you might feel I like to learn about driving, as it helps me to be a better driver... well, I just learned a load of info, that I'd never ever heard of before.... about why some streets can NOT get a speed bump, or stop sign. Crazy, right? How about when you hear it's a hillside road?

The city responded by letter in 2009 saying “an inappropriately placed stop sign may decrease safety,” and road humps are not recommended because Brandywine Street is classified as a collector street, designated as an emergency response route and the fire department doesn't allow them.

Wednesday, the city told NBC 7 it has evaluated the street multiple times, and in June 2020 conducted a 24-hour study of traffic volumes and vehicle speeds. The city found that most drivers go 9 mph over the speed limit and the Average Daily Traffic (ADT) was 1,067 vehicles per day.

In order for a street to qualify for traffic calming measures like speed lumps or v-calm signs, the city said it focuses on streets that have speeding of 10 mph or more above the posted speed limit. Based on city council policy, Brandywine Street is currently not a candidate for traffic calming. The city said it can re-evaluate again in a few years to see if the speeds change.

So, that pissed of some Karen or Carl, and they decided to add some attention getting blinking Xmas lights to make the speed limit sign eye magnet some attention

Just a couple blocks from a high school, which means a lot of daily traffic, Larry lives. Larry and his family have been the cause, or recipients, of FOUR collisions.... 

Does that mean that the traffic on that street moves so fast above the speed limit that there's no time to avoid a collision?

OR does it mean Larry and his family, are not smart enough to drive out of their driveway carefully and smart enough to avoid collisions with the street traffic coming through. 

Or a mix of both. 

After ONE collision, I'd analyze the cause of the collision. After TWO, I'd take steps to prevent any more.

 After THREE? AYFKM? It's time to install a stop sign, trench, speed bump, or see an optometrist about some damn glasses.

ANF AFTER FOUR? Time to move, or get a drive way that joins a street through your back yard instead. 

For more than a decade, Mike Gawarecki has also tried to get the city to install stop signs or speed bumps.

“They’re going too fast. It’s a residential area,” Gawarecki said. “Mainly, when school is in, in the morning because they’re late and they come up the hill at 45, 50 mph and at night.”

“It just seems like the city doesn’t really care. So, I’ve saved the documentation. If someone gets hurt seriously, I’ll just give the documentation to the families of the injured and the city will care then when they have to pay out millions of dollars in damages because they could have prevented it,” Gawarecki said. “It’s just a stop sign.”

https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/bay-parks-visibility-vigilante-alters-speed-limit-sign-to-get-drivers-to-slow-down/2725988/?_osource=newsletter_news_KNSD

this sign shows that any speed you want to drive, is legal, for a fee.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/226675368608297/permalink/471547460787752

the first driver to be convicted as part of Northamptonshire Police's Operation Snap, ( the public who film criminal driving can easily submit the video to the police) pled not guilty, but was busted for his BMW doing 90 in a 30

Denzel Masawi, 26, of Sunningdale Road, Rushden, was filmed on the cyclist's camera overtaking at a speed calculated to be a minimum of 91.5mph in a 30 zone

https://www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/news/crime/rushden-motorist-caught-overtaking-cyclist-90mph-30mph-zone-1344510

there are some speed limit changes for the better coming up, if a bunch of laws are passed in a lot of states

In West Virginia, the change to the posted speed from 70 mph to 75 mph.

The Oklahoma legislation wants to raise the turnpike to 80 mph from the current 75mph and would also make rural interstate highways from 70 to 75 mph.

Montana would only raise truck speed limits on interstate highways from 65 mph to 70 mph throughout the day. Currently, state highways are limited to 60 mph during the day and 55 mph at night.

Massachusetts would increase the state’s 65 mph speed limit to 70 mph

Kentucky will increase the speed limit from 65 mph to 70 mph on Interstate 165 and I-64.

California will get rid of speed differential for cars and trucks, and allow faster travel for all vehicles on portions of Interstate 5 and state Route 99.

Arkansas is proposing a bill for higher speed limits on certain highways and mandate a 75 mph speed limit on freeways outside urban areas while large trucks would be allowed to travel up to 70 mph.

https://www.powernationtv.com/post/changes-in-speed-limit-laws-being-pursued-across-the-country

the highest numerical speeding tickets (the most expensive, probably) in Texas issued for 2018

Worst violator,

2003 Porsche 911,  166 in a 75
1994 Honda motorcycle, 162 in a 75

2008 Suzuki GSX 160 in a 65
2000 Honda motorcycle 156 in a 65
2002 Honda CBR, 156 in a 70
2013 Ford F-150 150 in a 65
a motorcycle, a Challenger, a Camaro, and a Mustang fill out the top 10, all faster than 147


the most-ticketed car for sailing above 140 mph speeds is the Ford Mustang.

https://www.powernationtv.com/post/behold-the-50-fastest-speeding-tickets-in-texas

if you want peoples attention, make it simple.

http://swarfs.tumblr.com/

Did you hear the one about the town of 184 residents, that had 7 cops? And they shot the fire chief in court... his 2nd time there that day to protest to the judge about speeding tickets. It's all true, and in Arkansas, as you'd expect

on the Tennessee Arkansas border, next to Memphis, 3 miles from the Mississippi River, is a tiny little 5 street town.

With 7 cops, that sat on the small highway 77...  and handed out speeding tickets. It's a 45 mph zone, with a 35 caution zone for curves in the road. A speed trap heaven for cops.

Where was the ticket money going? Police Dept wasn't making the payments on it's cop cars. The Fire Dept had a truck repo'd because city hall hadn't paid it's bill.

But when the fire chief went back to the courthouse to tell the judge what he thought about the 2nd speeding ticket he got that day... all 7 cops were there... and someone shot the unarmed fireman, in the back - in the hip - with a 40 cal.

It was anger over traffic tickets that brought Payne to city hall last week, said his lawyer, Randy Fishman. After failing to get a traffic ticket dismissed on Aug. 27, police gave Payne or his son another ticket that day. Payne, 39, returned to court to vent his anger to Judge Tonya Alexander, Fishman said.

It's unclear exactly what happened next, but Martin said an argument between Payne and the seven police officers who attended the hearing apparently escalated to a scuffle, ending when an officer shot Payne from behind.

Judge Alexander then voided all the tickets written by the department both inside the city and others written outside of its jurisdiction — citations that the department had no authority to write. Alexander then resigned from her position.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/32680338/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/t/cop-shoots-fire-chief-ark-court-over-tickets/#.Vz3deISDGko
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jericho,_Arkansas


Just days after being released from the hospital, Don Payne was fired as fire chief. His volunteer fire dept of 20 resigned after hearing about Payne’s termination.

Prosecutors say they plan to charge former Fire Chief Don Payne with battery on a police officer. The officer who shot him faces no charges.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2349272/posts

But, as you'd expect... this isn't out of the ordinary in Arkansas... are you ready for this? Jericho was one of 3 small towns under investigation in it's county for money fraud in similar situations. The town of Jennette, also in Crittenden County and also under investigation, exemplifies the gross malfeasance at work in the area. It has a population of less than 150 and cannot account for $24,000 dollars in taxpayer funds. http://www.wmcactionnews5.com/Global/story.asp?S=11637973

Turrell Police Chief Greg Martin entered the home of city councilman Floyd Holmes and threatened him at gunpoint. Yes, the chief of police, sworn to protect and serve, pulling a gun on an unarmed councilman, and his wife, in the councilman’s own home. Why? Money. Just as in Jericho, Turrell’s mayor Franklin Lockhart is accused of hiding city funds. He even fired the city council, though he isn't legally able to do that.

An ABC news article also provided this interesting little tidbit: “This comes just two months after Mayor Lockhart asked a judge to place a lien against the members of town council in the amount of $600,000. The mayor claims council members owe the town because they haven’t performed their duties.”
https://waven.wordpress.com/2010/04/26/a-funny-thing-happened-on-the-way-to-jericho/

https://www.facebook.com/CrittendenCountyMuseum/


To paraphrase Albert Nock’s deathless insight, government police forces don’t exist to eliminate crime, but rather to enforce a government monopoly on crime. Coleman Brackney embodies that principle with uncanny fidelity. This is to be expected of Arkansas, where there quite literally are no standards governing the qualifications and performance of police officers.

Practically any hominid who can drive a car, pull a trigger, and emit sounds that vaguely resemble the English language can be stuffed into a government-issued costume and exercise “authority” on behalf of the State of Arkansas.

A cosmetologist must complete a 2000 hour training... to cut and color hair. But a cop in Arkansas? 0 hours training.

"According to Arkansas state law, officers do not have to be certified for up to a year after they're hired," reported the Memphis Fox News affiliate in February 2010 – just a few weeks after Officer Brackney murdered James Ahern. "The Commission on Law Enforcement Standards and Training says they can get an 8 month extension on top of that. So for almost 2 years, an officer can patrol the streets, by his or herself, and enforce the law without having any kind of training."

http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2013/03/welcome-to-sulphur-springs-when-police.html

greed cameras... have zero tolerance, and no margin for error factor. But they are money makers for the govt

Why a margin for error factor? Because the variation in the tire pressure from hot summer to winter cold snap (I've seen 100 degree difference in 1 day) can change the speedometer reading to actual speed over ground by 10%.

A cop won't bother pulling over anyone for just 2 kph, or mph, because they are instructed to stop people speeding in the higher fine brackets. Like 10 to 15 mph over, when the fine doubles.

https://www.facebook.com/MeanwhileInAustralia/photos/a.388527251219887.92144.388525541220058/1004060196333253/?type=3

More than 16,000 drivers fined in roadworks on E40 between Brussels and Ghent from this past Monday to this Thursday. About 4 thousand per day

Between last Monday and Thursday are more than 16,000 vehicle drivers caught speeding in the passing of the roadworks on the E40 and Wetteren between Erpe Mere. "It then only involves the findings with the zone in the direction of Ghent and the coast," says Michel Van Butsele, head of the federal traffic police of East Flanders.

http://www.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf20150626_01750103?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_term=nieuwsblad&utm_content=article&utm_campaign=seeding