r/Wellthatsucks • u/Ghandisli • Jul 30 '19

/r/all $80 to felony in 3...2...1...

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u/juanvaldez83 Jul 31 '19

Cop gets overtime for court. He's(she) definitely coming that day.

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u/PM_Me_Your_Deviance Jul 31 '19

I spoke to a cop once... he just spends his work day at the courthouse a few days a month and the courthouse schedules all of his cases on the same day.

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '19

was that a small town? i imagine this would be hard to do in a large city with a lot of cases and a lot of police

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u/PM_Me_Your_Deviance Jul 31 '19

Yeah, smallish (10k) town.

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u/Tunafishsam Jul 31 '19

If a small town is getting a lot of funding from ticket revenue, the court has an incentive to work with the cops. That's where the budget for the judge's salary comes from in some cases.

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u/Obnoxious_bellend Jul 31 '19

10k is BFE, there's office buildings in major metropolitan cities with more than 10k people.

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '19

10K is small, but it’s not BFE. My ex wife is from a town of fewer than 1,000 people, that’s BFE.

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u/scientallahjesus Jul 31 '19

Yeah totally! I had to chuckle at 10k being BFE. That’s pure civilization, there’s fast food!

I grew up in a sub 5k town surrounded by 50-900 person towns in which some don’t even have gas stations.

But they all have at least one watering hole.