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If I was going to drive through Brookside Alabama, would you have advice for me?

Don't.

John Archibald is a columnist at alabama.com. Don't at all.

My advice to you is don't. But you know the reason he is warning you to stay away from

Brookside. A small town just outside of Birmingham is simple. It's the cops.

The only reason you would go that direction is if you are going from say Birmingham to Memphis,

or something like that, on Interstate 22, but they've managed to acquire a mile and a half

of police jurisdiction on the Interstate. So that's where they make their money.

Making money from pulling people over on the highway is not news. But the way the police in

Brookside do it, that is.

And I've peppered a lot of communities like this that did the same sort of thing, but just never quite on the same scale.

I mean, half of your city budget coming from fines and forfeitures, nobody can look at that and say,

that's the way government was designed to run.

It's interesting in alabama because the state legislator years ago was a rest, was ticketed twice for speeding.

He had a law pass that said, you know, towns under 19,000 cannot issue speeding tickets on the Interstate.

That's a very bespoke law.

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