01-23-2005, 09:54 AM
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Easy Rider
Location: Moscow on the Ohio
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Maybe it is more about money than we think. A bill introduced in Georgia to try and reduce the number of speed traps on the freeways.
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If a bill introduced in the Georgia General Assembly this year passes, county and city police across Georgia could be a rare sight on the state's interstate highways.
"The purpose of this is to keep local jurisdictions from preying off the public just for the purpose of making money," said Bridges, a retired state trooper. Some jurisdictions, he added, "are stopping people they know aren't going to come back to court."
The bill, House Bill 6, would have speeding fines collected off of interstate highways by local police put directly into the state treasury.
The Georgia Association of Chiefs of Police continues its stand against the measure, saying that if local communities don't see a fiscal benefit to patrolling highways, their officers' time will be used elsewhere, possibly leaving highway speed limits meaningless. http://www.henryherald.com/articles/...news/news3.txt
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