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Looks Like Racism in Highway Shakedowns in Texas
Leave it to Good Ol' Boys to figure out new angles to work in shady law enforcement.
It used to be they'd only get some bribes from hassled drivers who didn't want to pay a full ticket. Now they get large wads of cash and even cars from people who don't want to have to face trial in a county far from their home.
That's just good ol' boy traffic management boosted by later day search and seizure laws that have become common throughout the US when drug trafficking is suspected and just so happens boosts department coffers and even the pay of officers charged with making the decision on just who are 'trafficking suspects'.
And out of 200 cases in which goods had been seized in Tehana Texas between 2006 and 2008 only a little over 50 actually had gone to trial to prove the suspects were really trafficking. Of the 147 people who weren't had goods seized without a later trial Chicago Tribune reporter Howard Witt was able to find 40. He writes that 39 of those were black.
See "Highway robbery? Texas police seize black motorists' cash, car" for details including police threats to take away a couple's children.
But it turns out that Mr. Witt is a serial exposer of racism in Texas (Good for him. I hope he can get around to the other 49 states eventually.)
See "Racism bedevils Texas town" from Feb 24, 2009 about Paris, Texas and a new one "Race may be factor in police shooting of unarmed elderly man" and more quality reports at Chi Tri's Howard Witt Storyboard page.
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