Posted: 6/23/2013 7:45:35 PM EDT
| For the second Saturday this month I've been on I59 at the Springville exits and the highway was lit up by the blue lights of the Springville PD pulling folks over. No DNA swabs, no phlebotomists, just writing tickets for excessive speed. Be warned! |
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Did the law change allowing less than 50k cities to cite on the interstate? Wondering the same thing, Pelham is revenueing daily on 65, and their population is around 20k, alabaster's population is at least 50% higher than Pelham, and I rearly see them on 65. Maybe Billbotts can shine some light here. |
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Did the law change allowing less than 50k cities to cite on the interstate? Wondering the same thing, Pelham is revenueing daily on 65, and their population is around 20k, alabaster's population is at least 50% higher than Pelham, and I rearly see them on 65. Maybe Billbotts can shine some light here. Cite for speeding is what they did away with, iirc it was because of either Argo or Sprigville kept stopping the same state senator for speeding. |
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Did the law change allowing less than 50k cities to cite on the interstate? Wondering the same thing, Pelham is revenueing daily on 65, and their population is around 20k, alabaster's population is at least 50% higher than Pelham, and I rearly see them on 65. Maybe Billbotts can shine some light here. Cite for speeding is what they did away with, iirc it was because of either Argo or Sprigville kept stopping the same state senator for speeding. That is how I remember it also, just wondering if they changed the law, or if they are just ignoring it. |
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They can still write tickets on the interstate, just not speeing tickets. The senator was L. Barron and the population cut-off is 19k. Barron was stopped by an officer that I used to work with, I'm pretty sure that the law was written after that interaction. |
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Hoover rents their vehicles to other departments. The Hoover police SUVs that sit on I20 between Leeds and I459 are actually Sheriffs What do those guys do? I figured they looked for drugs coming and going to Atlanta, or were working with the DOT for stopping trucks. |
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Hoover rents their vehicles to other departments. The Hoover police SUVs that sit on I20 between Leeds and I459 are actually Sheriffs No they are Hoover officers in those SUV's on the interstate. They are interstate criminal enforcement and they work with the sheriffs dept on the interstate. They are not looking for speeders only narcotics mules moving the dope east and the money west. They are on the interstate in the jurisdiction I work for all the time and I have talked to them on occasion when they come off the interstate on their breaks. The law has not been changed which means only agencies with a population of 19K or more can run radar and write speeding tickets on the interstate. That does not mean I cannot write other violations if I choose but I have other things to worry about on the surface streets in my city and leave the interstate for the troopers. My agency will not work a wreck on the interstate and will only go up to keep the traffic off our fire dept. |