Another speed trap shut down
Arlington Heights, Hamilton county, Ohio, disbanned its whole police force, after 2 City Clerks were caught taking over 260,000.00 from the proceeds of the speed trap, they operated, on one mile stret...
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I am one of those celebrating this. I have been avoiding Arlington Heights since the 1960's.
Arlington Heights has been in the revenue generating business for many, many decades. As the article said it is a very small village that the world has bypassed. It is completely surrounded by larger cities. The construction of I-75 has pretty much made it an island with very limited access. All the business and industry left decades ago leaving only a small low income population. The government has been run by family members (the Gertz family also has operated the neighboring Village of Reading for at least 50 years) and the police officers, if not family, were generally the bottom of the class at the academy.
I-75 crosses the village as an elevated highway with only one very small exit ramp. The only reason Arlington Heights "patrols" the highway is for the purpose of revenue.
A few years ago the nearby Village of Elmwood Place came under fire for using speed cameras to run the town. The same conditions applied: cut off by the highway, businesses left and only low income population remained, family or friend operated government. I worked right next to Elmwood Place and can attest to the fact that they carefully work just inside the law to extract money from those passing through. Many of my co-workers got tickets there. Signs were often hidden behind trees, on the side of a building or positioned were they would be shielded behind parked vehicles. Two of my co-workers got tickets for not seeing a small "no left turn" sign posted about 15' up a telephone pole.
I am not crying for them, too bad they aren't all serving jail time.
Arlington Heights has been in the revenue generating business for many, many decades. As the article said it is a very small village that the world has bypassed. It is completely surrounded by larger cities. The construction of I-75 has pretty much made it an island with very limited access. All the business and industry left decades ago leaving only a small low income population. The government has been run by family members (the Gertz family also has operated the neighboring Village of Reading for at least 50 years) and the police officers, if not family, were generally the bottom of the class at the academy.
I-75 crosses the village as an elevated highway with only one very small exit ramp. The only reason Arlington Heights "patrols" the highway is for the purpose of revenue.
A few years ago the nearby Village of Elmwood Place came under fire for using speed cameras to run the town. The same conditions applied: cut off by the highway, businesses left and only low income population remained, family or friend operated government. I worked right next to Elmwood Place and can attest to the fact that they carefully work just inside the law to extract money from those passing through. Many of my co-workers got tickets there. Signs were often hidden behind trees, on the side of a building or positioned were they would be shielded behind parked vehicles. Two of my co-workers got tickets for not seeing a small "no left turn" sign posted about 15' up a telephone pole.
I am not crying for them, too bad they aren't all serving jail time.
