8/6/2019 Radio Personality Supports Dekalb County Police Ticket Strike

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Radio Personality Supports Dekalb County Police Ticket Strike

For Immediate Release

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Dominique Huff

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Dominique@tenthamendmentmedia.com

COLLEGE PARK-Dekalb County Police Officers have stated they are bringing back their annual ticket strike and the recent edition of the Atlanta Community Affair (ACA)says it should be permanent this time. The county lost five million dollars in 2010 andcould possibly lose more. County police, according to the unofficial departmental blog,dekalbofficersspeak.blogspot.com report that if they have to take cuts and hits, so can thecounty commissioners and CEO.

What is really amazing to me is that Dekalb County government officials are more upsetabout lost revenue than traffic safety, which proves all along that traffic tickets only exist

for financial gain, Dominique Huff, CEO and Founder of the Tenth Amendment MediaGroup said. Dekalb County has one of the highest crime rates in the metro area and theBoard of Commissioners and CEO is more concerned about having officers rob citizensat gunpoint during traffic stops. Huff is also the host of ACA.

The Dekalb Officers Speak blog has been an eye opener for whats happening behind thescenes in Tucker (home of the Dekalb Police Headquarters). On the edition of ACA,Huff calls for the elimination of county police departments and wants to see the Sheriff handle those duties. Metro Atlanta has 20 counties and seven of them have county

police departments. Every one of these county police departments has some sort of political budgetary issue, he explained. If we were to abolish these departments and

even some of these small cities and let the Sheriff handle it, then we would have moreaccountability and responsibility. Its unfortunate that police officers are being pimpedout by elected officials for revenue.

The Sheriff is a constitutional position and all 159 of Georgias counties have one. TheSheriff is hired and fired by the voters while the police chief is a bureaucrat for theelected officials.

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It is also highlighted on this edition that while traffic citations went down, motor vehicleaccidents went down as well. Huff calls on Dekalb County residents to support this ticketstrike and to call the elected officials in Dekalb for theft by taking and theft bydeception. Everytime a ticket is written, that is less money for the economy and more

back into the government to waste on vote buying projects and frivolous expenditures,

he added. Traffic safety is important but revenue generation should not take first priority.

State Senator Mitch Seabaugh (R-Sharpsburg) introduced legislation during the 2010General Assembly that would have prohibited local police from enforcing speed limits onthe interstates. Unfortunately, this legislation was killed thanks to the Georgia MunicipalAssociation and several money hungry local governments who make their budgets fromsuch funds. If this bill would have passed, it would have eliminated some of the abuseon Dekalb residents and visitors. I also want to know where the so-called civil rightsleaders on this issue are, he said. Civil Rights is quick to call marches, rallies,summits, exhibits and whatnot for irrelevant matters but legitimate matters, they are

silent. This is no surprise to me. Huff urges listeners to lobby Seabaugh to reintroducethis legislation and tell their local officials to vote for it next session.

Dekalb County Residents and visitors need to tune in to this edition of ACA. The showairs every Wednesday at 8/7central on the Exceptional Radio Network (www.exceptionalradio.com). The show is available ON DEMAND 24/7.

If the county keeps this foolishness up, then the next strike that needs to happen is aneconomic boycott of the entire county, Huff concluded.

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