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PREDATORY POLICING FOR PROFIT – Be careful driving through the states.

Posted byDennis Reeve 28 January 202228 January 2022
An Alabama columnist found that in the two years from 2018 to 2020, Brookside revenues from fines and forfeitures soared more than 640 per cent.
https://nationalpost.com/news/world/a-force-unto-itself-how-a-police-department-in-a-tiny-alabama-town-abuses-its-citizenry
Posted byDennis Reeve28 January 202228 January 2022Posted inUncategorized

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