Speed Trap Town Dissolves Entire Police Dept After Years of Officials Getting Rich from FinesBy Matt Agorist Neighboring officials even went so far as to label the town a speed trap. In spite of being the smallest community in the county, the village of Arlington Heights had the busiest court in the region and even the state thanks to the Arlington Heights police department and their disreputable speed trap. According to a 2007 report from the Enquirer, the overwhelming majority of cases (93%) that pass through court in Arlington Heights, are for traffic fines alone. Despite issuing and collecting a record number of trafficfines, the money from those fines never found its way to the village bank account. The clerk of courts and the deputy clerk of courts, with the help of the ticket writing cops, enriched themselves to the tune of $260,000 before they were finally caught in October. Even thought he was met with backlash from the Arlington Heights Police department, Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters, who called for the dissolution of the village in 2012, said that referring to the village as a speed trap is appropriate. Basically, they were setting up speed traps on I-75 to fund the municipal workings of that village which they then stole, he said. I cant quite put my finger on it, but theres something off about a village thats maybe a mile long setting up speed traps to raise money that then is used to fund a bunch of public employees. It just rubs me the wrong way. What Deters is describing is the basic function of every police department across the country.Everyone from the street cops to the mayor depends on drivers being extorted for traffic violations. Its what pays their salaries. Luckily for all the residents of Hamilton County, on Friday, the Arlington Heights police department was disbanded as a result of their years of revenue collection for criminals. With the revenue collection arm now dissolved, the Hamilton County Sheriffs Office will begin patrolling the tiny village. You get to a point where it just doesnt make sense anymore, Deters said. I think theyve taken a hard look at what theyre doing out there, and if theyre letting the sheriff do it now, they made the right call. Matt Agorist writes for TheFreeThoughtProject.com What state? Based on the linked article, it appears to be Ohio. The whole of I-75 through Ohio was one big speed trap when i drove OTR in the 70s; i once saw five other big rigs pulled over at one time by cops who seemed to appear out of thin air. See Linndale, Ohio. Linn Missouri near Lake Of The Ozarks has always been a Speed Trap Town. In the UK we have public/private speed camera traps to fleece our most law abiding, tax paying citizens, on behalf of the corrupt elite of the country who are closely related to the corrupt elite in the US, in family ties, perverted practices open to blackmail, banking and any other corrupt practices they can get away with. Time to research, inform others and take back your world. Ohio is full of speed trap towns, not just on the interstates.. I can think of at least three or four in Stark County alone.. 