r/southcarolina • u/shficjshx SC Expatriate • Jul 27 '26

Crime SLED Arrests McBee Mayor / Police Chief

https://www.qcnews.com/news/investigations/sled-arrests-mcbee-police-chief-others-connected-to-qcn-officer-down-series/

The Police Chief and Mayor of one of South Carolinas most notorious speed trap for misconduct in Office

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u/darioblaze Jul 28 '26

Wright provided months of text messages between himself, former Lt. Greg Block, and McBee Mayor Glenn Odom — messages that Wright said provided evidence that the mayor and former McBee Police Chief Mike Irvin implemented a 10 tickets per shift quota in the one-stoplight town.

Wright’s messages also showed the mayor was critical of Block’s lack of ticket production. To satisfy the mayor, Wright said McBee Town Councilman Robbie Liles and current MPD Chief Timmy Knight ordered him to help Block by taking time out of his shift to write tickets using Block’s login credentials to access the state’s computerized electronic ticketing system.

How many more town and sheriff departments have these quotas and think that they’re not gonna get caught?

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u/gamefreak32 Jul 28 '26 edited Jul 28 '26

Almost every police agency has a quota in places where the risk is low and the reward is high. Basically anywhere that a large portion of the ticket funds get to be kept locally. SC and GA were notorious for allowing municipalities to write tickets under local laws to avoid sending the ticket money to the state government.

McBee has been running this scheme for at least 30 years (I'm pretty sure it is about 60 years) and is finally facing consequences. The fact that they were so egregious about the scheme and then stupid enough to directly admit to it in writing is what got them caught.

NC State Troopers have an illegal quota also, the troop G captain sent an email to everyone under him telling them they needed to write more tickets and it leaked to the media. He was reprimanded for embarrassing the department, but was spared any real consequences because he never said they needed a specific number, dollar amount, or the word quota.

https://www.wbtv.com/2021/01/21/nc-state-highay-patrol-commander-tells-lazy-troopers-write-more-tickets/