Coffee City, Texas: 250 people and 50 police officers

[Pancho 44803]

Seriously? 

 

[BrickHorn 18234]

NO ARRESTO IN ESPRESSO

[dcbc 14484]

I seem to recall that my wife got in a fender-bender there years ago.  The next week, she called to get a copy of the accident report and got an answering machine.  The cop shop didn't seem well-staffed.

[Poe It Up 126]

I bet donut city has better retention. 

[RDCanecutter 26443]

Back in 2003 I was driving across Mexico and locals would warn me about towns like this.

[52-80 19158]

Coffee City is basically the Colorado of the police transfer portal

[mdmost 43001]

The name Shitty Cop City was already taken. 

[Nice Guy Eddie 13512]

Coffee City existed to sell booze to Tyler residents. Much of the city limits only border a highway for liquor stores. No surprise that they’ve transitioned to patrolling those highways for speeding.

[SurlyGator 865]

That is one of the most insane city limit maps I have ever seen, even on a Texas scale.  We want to tax you, we don't want to provide any services to all this area, we want to tax you...

[Francisco 2.0 32393]

So, it seems that chief A) hires and swears in reserve officers, who now because they have a badge can B) provide security services for things like apartment complexes in Houston for side money, and C) possibly kick back some of that side money as grift to the chief.

 

Sound about right?

 

[bolverk 29672]

44 minutes ago, SurlyGator said:

That is one of the most insane city limit maps I have ever seen, even on a Texas scale.  We want to tax you, we don't want to provide any services to all this area, we want to tax you...

Man, you ain't kidding.

[South Austin 52505]

Coffee City is for closers.

[Captainant 27669]

11 minutes ago, South Austin said:

Coffee City is for closers.

You think Coffee City is rough? Wait till you see Steak Knife City

[dcbc 14484]

13 minutes ago, South Austin said:

Coffee City is for closers.

FIFY

[Deej 76791]

22 minutes ago, bolverk said:

Man, you ain't kidding.

Texas legislature laughs at that map 

[gofuckyourself 8239]

Boo. I thought this was a new megamart opening up.

[huge 3793]

Fat Dog Liquor is a beacon of hope in an otherwise dismal area.

 

Wait, there is a strip club just over that bridge isnt there?

[Pato del Muerto 52498]

No surprise to see “package store” at the end of that covered road.  Though I rarely hear that term used in Texas for liquor stores. 
 

and yeah, those guys didn’t lose their peace officer license for their transgression, so he throws them onto a reserve duty roster and they don’t do any regular policing but get in on the security and traffic direction money- and probably have to compensate that chief. 

Edited August 30, 2023 by Pato del Muerto

[BamaATL 16593]

I imagine being the pension fund manager must be just a lot of fun.  

[aggie08 21504]

So this is basically the police version of the Catholic Church sending pedophile priests to another church in a small town rather than punishing them in any meaningful way?

[Hook1997 5354]

Sounds like Rockport, they have like 90.  I get it for tourist season maybe.   During winter don’t go three miles over or switch lanes without a blinker, ect because they are bored and want something to do.  

[Texzilla58 4736]

Go to fucking Claude Texas if you want to see speed trap flawlessness. 287 out of Amarillo and they’ll have 20 cars on the side of the road. I have been one of them.
Back then they carried a credit card knuckle buster if you wanted to plea out next to a ditch.

[Samson's Wig 3192]

1 hour ago, aggie08 said:

So this is basically the police version of the Catholic Church or Southern Baptists sending pedophile priests or ministers to another church in a small town rather than punishing them in any meaningful way?

Fixed it to ensure no one gets left out.

[Wilcox Cummingtonite 2948]

ahhh east Texas, the Louisiana/Mississippi of our great state

[RPM 26321]

13 hours ago, Texzilla58 said:

Go to fucking Claude Texas if you want to see speed trap flawlessness. 287 out of Amarillo and they’ll have 20 cars on the side of the road. I have been one of them.
Back then they carried a credit card knuckle buster if you wanted to plea out next to a ditch.

Estelline

[52-80 19158]

Is there a way to pull the stats about CC's police department without going through FOIA?

Their June 2022 dated forward budget only shows 6 officers and 2 managers/administrators.  (And 6 police cars to match)

https://www.cityofcoffeecity.com/uploads/cms/nav-24-632e23bec241f.pdf

 

And how does the fine sharing work?  The court does project $1M of income  (assumed all traffic related), but almost all of it has to be shared with the state?

 

current budget shows same size police force with the court financials halved

https://www.cityofcoffeecity.com/uploads/cms/nav-24-64e507c79f679.pdf

Edited August 31, 2023 by 52-80

[52-80 19158]

PD website is empty but has a photo of ~20 uniformed officers

[HenryJames 66052]

[Nice Guy Eddie 13512]

21 hours ago, bolverk said:

Man, you ain't kidding.

looks like they also go out of their way to annex as much lake shore as they can most likely for property tax purposes. Live one block off the shore, you might save a few bucks in taxes but I bet your govt services are much less.

You would think that while the city officials want the valuable land in their tax rolls, they would begrudgingly take on the lower tax valuations areas as well because of how it would look.

But then again maybe those outside-the-city-limits areas are happy to not be under the control of a city that operates in this manner. 

Edited August 31, 2023 by Nice Guy Eddie

[smuggs 9353]

On 8/30/2023 at 6:41 AM, mdmost said:

The name Shitty Cop City was already taken. 

Don't lean on me man, 'cause you can't afford the ticket
back from Shitty Cop City.

[6th Street 6404]

Covfefe City

[52-80 19158]

1 hour ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

looks like they also go out of their way to annex as much lake shore as they can most likely for property tax purposes.

[DallasHorn26 586]

 

On 8/30/2023 at 6:53 AM, Nice Guy Eddie said:

Coffee City existed to sell booze to Tyler residents. Much of the city limits only border a highway for liquor stores. No surprise that they’ve transitioned to patrolling those highways for speeding.

I made many trips to Coffee City and Kilgore back in the day. Haven't lived in Tyler since it went wet, but I bet its safe to assume traffic has decreased significantly along those routes.

[Guest]

I bet there ain't many dogs in that town.

Just a hunch.

[davidg 4038]

I travel up 155 to my dad’s in Tyler 2 or 3 times a month. When you come off the bridge across Ledbetter Bayheaded north, you damn sure better be 55mph or below or you’re gonna catch a ticket when you top the hill by the dollar stores. They are there every time, usually with a car pulled over.

I didn’t catch if the news report talked about when there were several big 8 liner game rooms in CC. Cars would be parked up and down 155 at the one next to Kilo’s and another place down by the dollar stores. I think the sheriff or the TX Rangers finally came in and it down. The place next to Kilo’s still sports a sign on the building.


ETA: RIP Foot’s Liquor Store. Follow your feet to Foot’s!

[sasquatch69 603]

6 hours ago, HenryJames said:

Such an underrated film - that only gets better with age.

[G650 14256]

On 8/30/2023 at 9:56 AM, bolverk said:

Man, you ain't kidding.

 

 

[davidg 4038]

Follow up report on the news tonight that CC had suspended the police chief pending an investigation.

[RPM 26321]

4 hours ago, davidg said:

Follow up report on the news tonight that CC had suspended the police chief pending an investigation.

with pay

[Nice Guy Eddie 13512]

Any surprise that a town or 250 citizens is not run well and let’s their police chief so whatever he wants as long as traffic fine dollars keep rolling in? This town is smaller than almost any modern subdivision and we all know how crazy HOAs can be.

you probably cannot find many good police officers who would want to work for coffee city. A town should not exist to write traffic tickets. 

[South Austin 52505]

3 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

A town should not exist to write traffic tickets. 

Have you ever been to Rollingwood?

[atomheartbevo 89668]

40 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

A town should not exist to write traffic tickets. 

36 minutes ago, South Austin said:

Have you ever been to Rollingwood?

Or Big Cabin, Oklahoma?

[52-80 19158]

1 hour ago, South Austin said:

Have you ever been to Rollingwood?

Waxahachie

[NeverMarryAStripper 21907]

1 hour ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

A town should not exist to write traffic tickets. 

Anything over 30% of the previous year's revenue gets remitted to the state

[RPM 26321]

1 hour ago, NeverMarryAStripper said:

Anything over 30% of the previous year's revenue gets remitted to the state

If you write 30% more tickets every year...

[AUS-97HORN 11762]

well it took 2 weeks, but the entire city police force has been let go including the chief.  The Sheriff is gonna be the local police until they can get a new chief and then re-interview the formerly active duty officers to see who can be re-hired, reserve cops are not being rehired.

 

 

[YGIFS 19450]

On 9/6/2023 at 7:47 AM, South Austin said:

Have you ever been to Rollingwood?

Pipe down, Michael Levy.

I have so many issues with them but our school patrol, though miles away from Rollingwood is covered several days a week by Rollingwood P.D. (we're in the City of Austin).  I suspect it's because they have a budget surplus and our campus has a serious need for protection.  So for now, I celebrate their entire catalogue.  But sometimes I cut through that neighborhood to save time when MoPac/Barton Springs are all jammed up and I drive with my asshole clenched because I'll see as many patrol cars as I do civilian cars in a 1-mile stretch.  They even zig-zag through those two parking garages off the access road just to burn fuel to meet their monthly expenditure baseline.  

Anyway, to Coffee City!  The Bill Brasky of police forces! 

[4th and 5 4914]

the warrant division position was advertised as "you get $150 for every FTA you collect"

that's illegal

 

Tampering With a Government Document is also illegal: 

 

[YGIFS 19450]

If your last name is a famous Chicago hot dog joint, maybe don't have a lifestyle that makes your neck/face look like the end of a hot dog.  Pro tip, officer.

[Captainant 27669]

22 minutes ago, 4th and 5 said:

the warrant division position was advertised as "you get $150 for every FTA you collect"

that's illegal

 

Tampering With a Government Document is also illegal: 

 

Man it must be nice to run a legal gang to run a racket on a city. You get a pension AND you can fuck over poor people! Truly the American dream