Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Linndale, Ohio" in English language version.
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.
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 – and police who are quick draws with the pen – 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.
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.
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.
(Linndale's) mayor's court handled about 4,200 citations in 2011, more than 90 percent of which were traffic tickets.
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.
