Ellsinore, Missouri Speed Traps

Ellsinore, Missouri located on US Highway 60 with a population of barely 400 citizens, and a median family income level below $30,000 per year, one has to wonder how such a thriving community can afford brand new SUV interceptors for it’s police force, how it can financially support a police force, and how it can financially support a city prosecutor? These questions are easily answered if you don’t slow to 55 mph from the 65 mph posted limits before and after this brief intersection. How this is allowed to continue is amazing.

Within 4 miles of the junction, highway patrol and local police almost continuously site vacationers for any violation, speed, bright lights, missing tail lights etc. 3 mile stretch in the country with almost no traffic, slows from 65 to 55 abruptly and tickets are issued to vacationers for any of a variety of minor violations.