Small-Town Cops Shoot Up Courtroom

You've got to check out this AP story about the tiny town of Jericho, Arkansas. What do you do when you're a small-town police department that's unable to pay the loans on your police cruisers? Set up a permanent speed trap in the center of town and nab motorists who don't slow down to the town's depressed speed limit quickly enough for $150 each.

What do you do when the town's fire chief shows up in court to complain to the judge about the speed trap? Shoot him. Since the shooing, the police force has been disbanded, the city hall shut down, and the county sheriffs are looking for where all the cash from the traffic fines disappeared to.

Certainly there are a lot of well-trained professional officers out there, but some of them are just thugs with badges.