KHOU 11 Investigates discovered more than half of the cops in the Coffee City Police Department had been suspended, demoted or fired from their previous jobs.
If the cops are writing, let’s say, $1.5 million in tickets each year, you’d have an average revenue of $30,000 per cop. According to the quoted police chief, the cops have salaries of $80,000 to $100,000, so it looks like the cops are robbing the town’s coffers just as much as anyone who gets ticketed.
EDIT: Obviously, using ticketing as a net revenue generator is bad, but it doesn’t seem like the town is benefiting from revenues: it’s a purely parasitical relationship here.
The town is basically an ouraboros human centipede. The town shits into the mouth of the police, which then shits into the mouth of the town. A perfect closed system, a perpetual motion device which is refreshed every now and then by whoever is foolish enough to drive through this place!
If the cops are writing, let’s say, $1.5 million in tickets each year, you’d have an average revenue of $30,000 per cop. According to the quoted police chief, the cops have salaries of $80,000 to $100,000, so it looks like the cops are robbing the town’s coffers just as much as anyone who gets ticketed.
EDIT: Obviously, using ticketing as a net revenue generator is bad, but it doesn’t seem like the town is benefiting from revenues: it’s a purely parasitical relationship here.
The town is basically an ouraboros human centipede. The town shits into the mouth of the police, which then shits into the mouth of the town. A perfect closed system, a perpetual motion device which is refreshed every now and then by whoever is foolish enough to drive through this place!