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05.15.2009 9:00 am

Top ticketing police departments in St. Louis City and County

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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Search the map below to find the places where local law enforcement officers write the most traffic tickets per square mile of their jurisdiction, or per person based on the population of the jurisdiction. Click the municipalities to view five years of ticket information in the charts below the map.

Map by Kevin Crowe and Brian Williamson


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About the research

The Post-Dispatch analysis included five years of traffic stop data which more than 700 law enforcement agencies are required to file with the Missouri Attorney General’s Office. The information includes detailed statistics on numbers of traffic stops, citations and warnings issued by each agency. To create the citation rate per person, the number of citations was compared to the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2007 American Community Survey population rates. Square mile measurements of municipalities recorded in the 2000 Census were used to create the ratio of traffic citations per square mile.

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[...] Explore a map of St. Louis City and County and find out which local municipality issues the most tickets. [...]

Rock Hill is horrible. Whilst driving down Manchester I was going 31 in a 30 and got nabbed. It cannot be a fun job to constantly pull people over for barely breaking the speed limit. They do have nice police cars though. They have the new Hemi Charger’s. I gave them $150 towards the purchase of a new one…..unfortunately.

— Silver
8:08 pm May 16th, 2009

I say the more tickets, the better…that results in fewer accidents. If these people are breaking the law they should be stopped. I live in one of the so called “speed traps” and feel safer knowing the streets are well patrolled. Keep up the good work!

— Donna S.
10:03 pm May 16th, 2009

I’m surprised Ballwin’s isn’t higher. When the construction was going on for almost 2 years on Clayton Road, they seemed to constantly have someone pulled over. Well, except when someone was on my tail for trying to maintain the unreasonable 25 mph speed limit, particularly in the morning hours during rush hour traffic or on the weekends….

— MidwestReader
11:44 am May 17th, 2009

What a bunch of rats. I hope Missouri goes through with putting an end to this abuse of the law.

— Scott
3:49 pm May 17th, 2009

I specifically do not patronize business in Rock Hill because I am afraid of the police. Congratulations on the loss of my business.

— Chris
5:39 pm May 17th, 2009

Impressive map. Why am I not suprised Charlack is near the top?

— Daniel
6:42 pm May 17th, 2009

Will someone please investigate Bella Villa? Something seems a little odd, especially considering my backyard is as big as their whole city.

— Scott
9:35 pm May 17th, 2009

Don’t know if it’s still true, but a couple of years ago, it was rumored that Rock Hill was generating more than $250,000/year from traffic stops along Manchester and McKnight. Don’t know how much of that is purely in the name of revenue generation, but I know Officer Ziegler is an equal opportunity kind of guy. He’ll bust the high rollers as well as the soccer moms. Also, and maybe it’s by design, he nails plenty of riff raff wanted on other charges in other municipalities, too. Does this extreme enforcement cut down on accidents related to speeding? I certainly have my doubts.

— knuckles
3:32 pm May 18th, 2009

This reminds me of a little trap muni just outside of Ft Polk, Louisiana. New Llano covered about .8 miles between the Fort and the larger town of Leesville. I was one of the lucky ones who never got a ticket on that stretch of road. I found a backdoor out off base. ;)

— yobar
12:53 pm May 19th, 2009

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