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Letter: Cameras offer bad portrait of Muscatine
Bob Riepe The Muscatine Journal | Posted: Friday, January 20, 2012 1:09 pm

I received a letter from a New York company claiming I had been speeding in Muscatine about three weeks earlier.

Two friends of mine, both from the same small town as I, also received tickets, and apparently, on different days, we all were going the exact same speed at the exact same intersection - 1 mph over the limit to send a ticket.

What a coincidence.

I received a follow-up letter from one of Muscatine's finest policemen, asking for the money.

So, rest easy, Muscatine residents. You may not be able to walk the streets in many of your neighborhoods, and you may have the reputation as the dirtiest, crime-ridden town in eastern Iowa, but your cops are on the job, sitting at a desk signing off on phony speeding tickets for a New York company that is stealing from the Iowa taxpayers who pay the cops' salaries.

The motto for your corrupt little police department should be "to protect and defend the town's dirty little revenue stream."

Bob Riepe

Mediapolis, Iowa

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