This is the result of the crazy patchwork quilt of small municipalities in St Louis County. All of these municipalities need money and property taxes are usuall

This is the result of the crazy patchwork quilt of small municipalities in St Louis County. All of these municipalities need money and property taxes are usually not enough to fund the police etc. So they use ticketing as a revenue generator and that has really screwed up the relationship between the officials and the people who live in those towns. There's a tiny tiny town called St. John. It has a tiny tiny city limits boundary on the highway (I-170). Yet they use that to capture speeders and generate enormous revenue. Every local knows not to speed through that tiny corridor on 170. Then there's the next city boundary on the same highway and the one after. Often filled with speed traps. There's one report here: http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/45/4542.asp http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/45/4542.asp The whole county needs to consolidate all these tiny municipalities and put the police under one large force like Indianapolis or Louisville or others.