A stack of firewood is not ugly, it’s not an eyesore. A stack of firewood is rustic beauty.

welcome to the 21st century where you can't truly own your property.

I’m surprised the city didn’t cite you for filming without a permit!

Fifty years ago, I and a girl friend drove past a country store, filling station and a couple houses. We were not in any hurry whatsoever. We were pulled over for speeding. I had reason to write a letter questioning some aspect of the ticket. The return letter had the names and titles of all the city officials. Four of five had the same last name!

"A nation of sheep will soon have a Government of wolves." Edward R. Murrow.

The court house driveway has cracks, they should be fined as well.

The next town over from me does this. Their cops have completely accepted the fact that they are simply highway robbers, and they excel at it.

Al Capone, turns in his grave. He should have been in government.

That's what we call organized crime at his best.😎

I feel your pain.. Remember the old west when the bandits used to hold up stage coaches.. The same thing is going on today but now it's legal..

The fact it was a criminal charge is just bizarre coming from someone that's worked in the justice field

When you realize who owns your home and driveway.

This is Piracy. The "judges and police" involved should be in jail. If the town legislators, clerks and mayor are also involved, they should go with them.

The city's finances and spending needs to be scrutinized.

This type of government corruption needs to be called out at all levels

Wow, firewood police actually exist! I thought this was just one of my dystopian fantasies. These people are public servants who have clearly lost sight of their core purpose. Incredible !

Road Pirates! Here's an idea for Doraville. Reduce the number of people working in local government by 40%, police, code enforcement officers, etc., and then eliminate all the policing for profit, and you come out ahead on your local government's budget and your individual liberty.

Speed traps seldom have anything to do with public safety and everything to do with generating revenue.

Ticket Writing = revenue, when high taxes is not enough.

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." ~Benjamin Franklin

The Devil Went Down to Georgia, indeed.

As a start get rid of the city officials and cut down the police force first to save money

I live in Georgia for 27 years. I contacted the GBI that the town I lived in is making bogus tickets from code enforcement. They told me that there was nothing I could do about it. So glad you’re fighting for us! When the city officials found out I did this, I was harassed by police, code enforcement , and the dog pound for 5 years. My family was military and we moved to the city for the family env. What a lie that was!

This organization restores my LONG-lost faith in truly genuine “good works” by legal professionals. This is a FANTASTIC channel & this guy just made my day. Hats off to IFJ!!! 👏👏👍👍

they should also investigate how much the city officials are making in salaries. I have heard of mayors getting well over a hundred thousand dollars for basically a part time job.

The government has gone out of control with their ways of taxing people

Just to ask: Are the judges paid by the same city that their judgements fund?

Sounds like they're describing the federal government!

15,000 cases annually in a town with a population of only 10,000 residents? Even if as many as half of those citations are issued to non-residents just passing through, that still would mean that an overwhelming majority of the residents in this town are targeted for revenue collection an average of once per year. But it doesn't seem that they can entrap everybody. So they just heap multiple bogus claims onto the ones they can dredge or conjure up any fictitious infraction on.

Sounds like something straight from the minds of Boss Hogg and Rosco P. Coltrane.

Thanks for your service, keep exposing corruption.

The FBI needs to follow that money. No question officials are finding ways to put some of that cash into their pockets.

I live in California and I fought code enforcement in a federal court lawsuit... I didn't win per say but I did prevail and help make change! !

American history/civics lesson time: More government = bad. Less government = good.

If you haven’t heard, Turbeville, SC does the speed trap to keep revenue coming in. It’s a dry town and the locals are sick of the traps.

This was some years ago, but there was an undercover cop driving in a van next to my boyfriend and I. He was taking be back to college, and it was in a small town so we're out in the boonies. We didn't know, but up ahead the streets merged up ahead. The van next to us kept speed..just enough to be right next to us so we had a choice to either speed up after we suddenly saw the merging sign, or slow down. My boyfriend, now husband, sped up. It wasn't by much. Just enough to get around the douche who was clearly cock blocking us to pressure us into doing what he wanted. He wasn't considered speeding until he sped up to pass the van. The undercover cop turned his lights on to pull us over and gave my boyfriend a ticket. Which he had to go out of his way to pay making it harder to contest since it was far out from where he lives. That was a legitimate speed trap. He knew college students drove around there, and he knew what he was doing in that specific area when he was pinning us to push us to make the wrong decision cause otherwise we would've hit if we didn't go forward or back. It definitely makes people mistrust the justice system when they do crap like that, and I definitely think there needs to be retribution for the wrongdoing for an easy squeeze of revenue. To add on with the video with the driveway, I'm pretty sure after she fixes it up it also means they can inflate on taxes. One of the reasons why people don't really go out of their way to make their place nice sometimes is because of that so she'd have to pay for the driveway and extra incentive via taxes due to an increase of property value 🙄 And about the guy who's making cool furniture, it's just another means of controlling resources because who wants productive people who can live apart from the bigger companies that help fund this ludicrous, corrupt system?

I wonder how many of mayor's, judges's and and police relatives receive fines?

"Devil Went Down to Georgia" played at the beginning of the video. 😃

Keep up exposing the greed and corruption of the criminals who inserted themselves into government.

Waaaay back in the 1960's we all knew that driving through Georgia was risky because of its notorious reputation for bogus traffic tickets. It looks like some things never change. Fortunately, I no longer have a need to visit this state.

When the code enforcement officer comes up missing,maybe they will get the message

If you actually want people to slow down and drive more safely, you put marked cars out on the road where they are clearly visible to drivers. THAT gets people to actually slow down. Hiding the enforcement mechanism doesn't make people safer. It's just for taking people's money. In fact, it encourages people to unsafely brake when they finally see the speed trap, thus making roads MORE dangerous. The way to actually make the road safer is just to put an officer is a marked vehicle in the flow of traffic, driving safely as a clear example to others.

For a number of years, the town that I work in had Red Light Cameras. At these locations the yellow lights had a duration of 1 second. The town generated lots of revenue from these traps. Luckily, a member of our State Legislature fought such practices and had the cameras removed.

Well done ; do keep us informed on the outcome.

The BTK killer was a code enforcement officer, just saying. He went around measuring peoples grass and grabbing up dogs and had a collection of their collars and tags. Takes a special kind of sadist to work code enforcement. Before he was caught the kids in the neighborhood used to hide when he would drive by, figured it was just a silly kids game, seems they knew better than the adults.

Judges are paid by the city they work for. They make judgements on citations where the city benefits. That is a conflict of interest

Her driveway looks like our city streets and SH here in LRAR.

Need GA to pass a law restricting to a % of revenue a town can use from fines. The excess must go to the state and slows the incentive

This is where "Gubmint" has really gone off the rails, turning a matter of the condition of the driveway on a property belonging to a middle-aged, LAW ABIDING woman, without notice nor clear explanation of what would meet code, nor even a case that the condition of the driveway actually violated Doraville's municipal codes. It's "pitch forks and torches" time!

I totally agree that speed traps are generally for revenue and not public safety, but I wish the local sheriff would put one up on my street....50 in a 30 just doesn't work for me.

Driveway is private property . I don't understand how they can fine you?

"Devil went down to Georgia" perfect song for this video. Lol

I was pulled over and taken to jail there. Cop said I was changing lanes without singling... Came to my car and said it smelled to good.. So they had to see if I was covering up a smell. I get out and they fine something they thought was marijuana. So to jail I go, they take my car when my friend was there and willing to take the car back home but no. I spend the night in jail, for nothing at all. Get bail, go home. Later that year we go to court, and they try to take the vid. Witch was all my evidence, so the judge said no. We watch the vid and find out he lied. Boom, non marijuana, and no lane change bio. $75 and I go home. Point being, they lied, planted weed on me, took my car, and more. I beat the case because of a good lawyer. Stay away from that county. Speed traps at both exits. Most nights of the week.

I'm so happy you made this. I avoid Doraville at all costs. Savannah, Tennessee is a town you need to check into as a speed trap.

This is exactly why I will never travel through Georgia. When I was younger they did the same thing to my father and my father wasn't even speeding but how do you prove that when you are from out-of-state. I was in the car with my father so I know what speed he was going at. My father never drove fast he was always a Slowpoke if anything. This was 30 years ago so I can only imagine how much ruthlessness has occurred since then. I pray for those people and any other city that citizens are going through this. Don't forget though God will have the last word on these type of people.

I live in the Northeast. Our taxes on our property is higher. But, towns make NOTHING from a speeding ticket. Towns here are reluctant to go after homeowners for “code violations,” unless there are other homeowners who are asking them to correct issues of blight and neglect. In other words, the operating budget for our town comes from taxes, not from getting their local police all ginned up to fulfill quotas for ticket-writing. As a result, we do not have this tension between residents and government. Residents trust our government more.

I hope and pray that the Institute for Justice will respond to my desperate plea for help after hurricane Harvey hit Rockport Texas and the city has made a motion (Oct22, 2018 hearing) to demolish my concrete block houses that don't have any damage except to the roof and the resulting water damage to the interior. These houses have survived numerous hurricanes since the 1960's and been repaired, but these days Texas Wind Insurance (TWIA) is not paying claims, contractors are tripling their prices and the code enforcers are demanding thousands of dollars in engineering, architectural and other expenses that don't have anything to do with fixing the darn roof. To add far greater misery to the hurricane, I even had an engineer tell me that she herself couldn't afford to replace her own windows due to the "certification" required and the lack of simple competition among mfrs due to the legal and regulatory requirements of storm window "certification." We just want to repair the roof and hurricane water damage and the city of Rockport wants to knock down the houses at our expense because we can't pay for THEIR UNNECESSARY REGULATORY REQS on top of the inflated prices charged during a disaster...HELP!!!!!!! --Charles L Foster

It’s private property! You do what you want to your own PROPERTY

Why do I feel I am going to need the institute for justice one day.

I had no idea how ridiculous America's rules/laws until I came across this channel. It's totally different from most countries in Asia.

I got fined for having wood stacked on my driveway. The truck delivered half a cord of wood to my driveway. The next day I stacked the wood under my porch, but between 3:30 PM one day and about noon the next day, a local officer came out and took a picture of my driveway,

courts should never be for profit boycott any city that engages in this illegal activity

Let's call this what it is... Organized Crime!!!!

This is absolutely ludicrous. I am so happy that people are standing up for you.

Has to be a outrageously high overhead method of collecting revenue on top of everything else.

This happens all over this nation, it's gotten to the point where you are afraid to go anywhere. But law enforcement wants us to respect them, Respect is earned not just given. how can we respect them when they act like crooks.

Thanks for your work

Pretty much the same in the UK, speed cameras are often not in high risk areas for pedestrians, they are just used as an easy income generation tool.

Put a sign in your yard that says, taking pictures of this yard will cost you $1000000, 5 million if you don't ask permission first.

My son-in-law came to visit with his family a couple of weeks ago and took a shortcut (he's familiar with the area) over a small mountain in our town. It's a road everyone takes. Lately, the GPS system has changed the route for Truckers and they are sending huge trucks over that road. There are few houses on the road, but when the trucks come down the hill into town, they use Jake Brakes and create a lot of noise and they have trouble slowing down. The people on the road asked the town to do something about it so the police patrol there often. Their solution is; ticket anyone going over the 35 MPH limit especially on the straight level sections. My Son-in-law was ticketed for 38 in a 35 zone coming over the crest of a hill where you have to immediately get on the brakes or you will be going 45 in 3 seconds. He was driving a car, not a tractor trailer. That section has no houses or any critical situations. Nothing there! Police do the absolute easiest thing to generate revenue and that's having a speed gun to grab the dollars. I come over that road quite often and as a test, I drive absolutely at the posted speed, and I get a line behind me a half mile long with the guy behind me flashing his lights, honking his horn, and riding 2 feet from my bumper. Some of them will pass me over the solid line and pass around the corners. We can all go past the police car parked there in his favorite spot and no-one get pulled over. My wife called my cell phone one day and I pulled off the road to answer it. While talking to her, a town cop pulled behind me and came to my window, asking for my license and Registration. He tried to tell me I was "Impeding Traffic". He wanted to know why I pulled over there. I said I was off the road and pulled there to answer my cell phone. He said I couldn't use the phone while I was driving. I reminded him that I was "off the road", and he decided to give me a verbal warning. I was going to ask what the warning was for but decided to act contrite and leave. By the way, the traffic I was impeding didn't show up for the 10 minutes we were there. Nobody went by. The words "Rent-a-Cop" went through my mind several times.

Criminal charges for cracks in a driveway where no one was injured, and no wrecks occurred because of it, ridiculous.

wow! leaving in fear of our government.

Vote the Mayor and if you can, the city Attorney (DA) out.

The Bible says the world is given into the hands of the wicked.

When towns rely on the revenue from traffic violations.. there is a SERIOUS problem.

It all started when they added court costs to your fine. Growing up in the 70's ,you paid the fine and that was it. They saw a gold mine .

Only mistake the town made was going after it's own citizens..... A sheriff's depety told me that he was told to give warrnings to county residents for minor traffic infractions because if they ticketed too many residents it would be difficult at the Sheriff election

People should go to the houses of these code enforcement officers and take pictures.

Nice sneakers, 2 different colors. Taking pictures while in your yard sounds like trespassing.

My goodness, you have laws about cracked drive ways, and logs on your own property, so much for the “ Land of the Free!

Also, someone should notify IRS on the police prosecutors and judges

June 4, 2019, Doraville will be in federal court defending their "revenue based enforcement" policy.

I love your work - this is true social justice!

The town got away with it because this case went to another judge who dismissed summery judgment. Now that’s a big surprise.

Thanks. Good luck with the suit

0:38 "...sentenced to criminal probation because of the condition of this driveway." - InstituteForJustice The new king of the United States is thousands of unconstitutional laws.

This happened to my father in Milwaukee, WI in the 1950's. He tore down an old garage with a couple of additions, stacked the wood neatly 1 foot or more off the ground. He build a nice garage and a half in place of the dilapidated one. The neighbors complained that they saw rats around the wood pile. What everyone ignored was the fact that the same neighbors had just had their asphalt siding removed from their house, placed directly on the ground in a large pile the size of a small car, and this pile DID have rats nesting in it. My father had to get rid of his wood pile.

It has happened to me and my family several times, me to the point that i can no longer work to provide, and i am terrified for my families safety. We NEED help!!!

A city does not flourish as a city if it was not for the residents that live there. If all of the residents moved out it would be a ghost town and the city or town would lose big time in the long run, better yet get rid of the cops, what other gang in the United States is able to investigate their own investigations and get away with a majority of there own criminal conduct....? Nobody else is and that is a fact. So much for there tyrannical revenue, and just for the record taking taxes from American citizens is actually criminal and unconstitutional, and they know this. Pathetic.

Legalized extortion at it's finest. If you don't pay up, they will protect and serve the #uck out of you.

So the surface outside the courthouse has cracks in it?

What was the outcome with Doraville? Acworth, GA does the same with speed traps. They now have speed cameras to issue tickets to people passing through along some of the rural highways that pass through their city limits.

This is EXACTLY why we have the Second Amendment!

Those pig's front windows are also tinted beyond code

Same in the UK! All about revenue raising!

Good work.

Take a Real Good Look PEOPLE! This is only test town!

They done lost their damn minds.

LOL perfect choice of music! The Devil in Georgia should not be local revenues! Oh! I’d love to pave my driveway your honor, but there’s just nothing left over after TAXES!!

Way to go! Going on all over the country.