Editing Linndale, Ohio (section)

==Controversy over traffic fines==
Beginning under [[Prohibition in the United States|Prohibition]], Linndale became notorious for its gambling and illicit alcohol. Criminals would "lay low there to escape the big-city heat" of Cleveland.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.clevelandmagazine.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=E73ABD6180B44874871A91F6BA5C249C&nm=Article+Archives&type=Publishing&mod=Publications%3A%3AArticle&mid=1578600D80804596A222593669321019&tier=4&id=BE93DE597B80498682B2E5C3291998A6
|title=Greetings From Linndale
|quote=Cuyahoga County's tiniest town is five blocks long and two blocks wide. It has eight streets, 37 residential addresses [and] Linndale has earned a new distinction: Cuyahoga County's second-fastest-growing community. That's surprising, considering no one's built a house since 1968 in this town of something less than 200 people...Linndale's 53 percent population spike is pretty strange, especially when you look at the results more closely... Nine residents supposedly moved into an industrial zone but can't be found. The census counts one block as part of Linndale when it's really in Cleveland. 
|date=August 2011
|publisher=[[Cleveland Magazine]]
|access-date=February 19, 2012
}}</ref> After the construction of [[Interstate 71 in Ohio|Interstate 71]], however, the village became known as a [[speed trap]],<ref name=trap/> and for many years had the busiest, on a per-capita basis, [[Ohio Mayor's Courts|Mayor's Court]] in the State of Ohio.<ref>{{cite news
|url=http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2012/07/22/big-business.html
|title=Ohio's mayor's courts, big business
|quote=(Linndale's) mayor's court handled about 4,200 citations in 2011, more than 90 percent of which were traffic tickets. 
|newspaper=[[Columbus Dispatch]]
|author=Conley, Justin
|author2=McKinsey, Rebecca
|date=July 22, 2012
|access-date=August 23, 2012
}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2008/07/linndale_mayors_court_leads_in.html
|title=Linndale Mayor's Court leads in per capita traffic cases
|quote=In the Ohio Supreme Court's recently released 2007 report on Ohio's 355 mayor's courts, Linndale tops the per-capita list with 4,062 cases per 100 people.  With only 117 residents &ndash; and police who are quick draws with the pen &ndash; it wasn't even close. No. 2 in per-capita cases was Hanging Rock, on the Ohio River in south central Ohio, with 531 per 100 residents. 
|newspaper=[[The Plain Dealer]]
|author=Michael K. McIntyre 
|date=July 23, 2008
|access-date=February 19, 2012
}}</ref>  The village in the past has successfully defended its legal right to enforce the 60&nbsp;mph speed limit on the {{convert|422|yd|m}} of I-71 within its jurisdiction under the [[Home Rule in the United States|"Home Rule"]] provisions of the state constitution.<ref name=trap>{{cite news|url=http://www.cleveland.com/tipoff/index.ssf/2011/06/linndale_speed_trap_survives_y.html
|title=Linndale speed trap survives yet another legislator's attempt to flatten its tires
|quote=Two things we ought to know by now about the tiny village of Linndale: Drivers can't speed through its 422 yards of Interstate 71 without getting a ticket, and state legislators, no matter how hard they try, can't put the brakes on Linndale's prolific traffic cops. 
|newspaper=[[The Plain Dealer]]
|date=June 20, 2011
|access-date=February 19, 2012
}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.sconet.state.oh.us/rod/docs/pdf/0/1999/1999-ohio-434.pdf
|title=Linndale v. State (1999)
|quote=The Ohio General Assembly enacted R.C. 4549.17 in 1994. The statute prohibits local law enforcement officers from issuing speeding and excess weight citations on interstate freeways when [certain conditions exist; however the Court finds that] R.C. 4549.17 is not a general law, it unconstitutionally impinges on the home-rule powers of the affected municipalities.
|author=[[Supreme Court of Ohio]]
|publisher=[[Supreme Court of Ohio]]
|date=March 24, 1999
|access-date=February 19, 2012
}}</ref> The combination of traffic enforcement and Mayor's Court has provided 80% of Linndale's one million dollar annual budget, and underwritten its four full-time and ten part-time police officers.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.clevelandmagazine.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=E73ABD6180B44874871A91F6BA5C249C&nm=Article+Archives&type=Publishing&mod=Publications%3A%3AArticle&mid=1578600D80804596A222593669321019&tier=4&id=BE93DE597B80498682B2E5C3291998A6
|title=Greetings From Linndale
|quote=Linndale has four full-time police officers and 10 part-time cops. Their work on I-71 and Memphis Avenue generates the tickets and fines that keep the town going...About $800,000 a year in fines flow through Linndale's court, swelling the village budget to $1 million.
|date=August 2011
|publisher=[[Cleveland Magazine]]
|access-date=February 19, 2012
}}</ref>

On December 20, 2012, Governor [[John Kasich]] signed a bill<ref>[http://archives.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=129_HB_606 Sub. House Bill 606], 129th [[Ohio General Assembly|General Assembly]]</ref> into law effective March 22, 2013, that dissolved Linndale's Mayor's Court.<ref>{{cite web |title=Kasich Signs 42 Bills into Law (press release) |url=http://governor.ohio.gov/Portals/0/12.20.12%20Kasich%20signs%2042%20bills%20into%20law.pdf |date=December 20, 2012 |author=[[Ohio|State of Ohio]], [[List of Governors of Ohio|Office of the Governor]] |access-date=January 10, 2013 }}</ref> A sergeant in the Linndale police department stated that traffic cases would subsequently be handled by nearby [[Parma, Ohio|Parma]].<ref>{{cite news |first=Tom |last=Beres |title=Linndale: Mayor's Court Dead but Speed Trap Is Not |url=http://www.wkyc.com/news/article/290609/45/Linndale-Mayors-Court-dead-but-speed-trap-is-not |publisher=[[WKYC|WKYC-TV]] |date=March 21, 2013 |access-date=March 22, 2013 }}</ref>

In response to decreasing revenue, Linndale has installed speed cameras on its most heavily traveled non-interstate road Memphis Avenue<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cleveland.com/tipoff/index.ssf/2013/08/linndales_highway_speed_trap_i.html|title = Linndale turns to traffic cameras to make up for lost revenue from its highway speed trap: Michael K. McIntyre's Tipoff|date = August 9, 2013}}</ref> and is processing some traffic violations locally instead of relying on Parma Municipal Court.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2013/09/linndale_village_charter.html|title=Linndale voters approve village charter, paving the way for traffic cameras and waiver bureau|date=September 11, 2013}}</ref> Another attempt to increase revenue with a proposed increase in the village income tax from 2% to 2.5% failed in an 8-12 referendum vote.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cleveland.com/tipoff/index.ssf/2013/11/linndale_income_tax_hike_draws.html|title = Linndale income tax hike draws just 12 no votes, which is enough to sink it. Can the village survive without the income?: Michael K. McIntyre's Tipoff|date = November 9, 2013}}</ref>

In October 2017, Linndale was featured on the internationally syndicated NPR show ''[[This American Life]]'' in episode 629 entitled Expect Delays.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thisamericanlife.org/629/expect-delays|title = Expect Delays|date = October 20, 2017}}</ref>