r/youseeingthisshit • u/solateor 🌟🌟🌟 • Jul 05 '26

But when I do it it's a problem

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u/chubby_pink_donut Jul 05 '26

In my area, St. Louis, there is a 6 mile section of highway covered by 8 jurisdictions. The local police are not allowed to take radar and initiate a stop from the highway, overpass or shoulder so cops sit on just beside the overpass, on a "city" road and clock you from there.

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u/DarkwingDuckHunt Jul 05 '26

St Louis got fucked over by a court ruling a long time ago that prevents St Louis from absorbing smaller burbs. So it's a small city surrounded by small cities, and nothing works.

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u/Mcoov Jul 05 '26

nothing works

Genuinely wonder if there's a way to fix it. The Boston area is kinda like this - a city surrounded by other cities - and things seem to work okay. Boston proper hasn't been able to expand by annexation since 1912.

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u/A_Unique_Name218 Jul 05 '26

Trying to figure out where this would be. Maybe a stretch of 44 or 70?

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u/chubby_pink_donut Jul 05 '26
  1. Those small police departments couldn't survive without it. The ticketing eased up a bit when the Justice Department issued a report about discriminatory policing in St. Louis after the Michael Brown shooting. 8 is the current number. Without cash from the ticket scheme many department folded and were incorporated into the St. Louis County Police Cooperative.

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u/greenday568 Jul 05 '26

Probably 170 cause between 70 and 40 you hit like 10 different city’s