Judge Preliminarily Blesses $1.5 Million Settlement for Victims of a Tiny Town's 'Policing for Profit'
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Oct 1, 2026, 2:41 pm62 ptsIn March 2018, Michael Jones began serving as the police chief of Brookside, Alabama, a small town near Birmingham. During the next two years, the city's annual revenue from "fines and forfeitures" rose by 640 percent, from $82,467 to $610,307. The increase since 2017, the year before Jones took…
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