I lived in Alabama for a while and I'm not surprised about this. Alabama small towns love speed traps. There was a speed trap in another city two hours from where I lived. I had to drive through it twice a year while heading to visit relatives and it was always stressful because the cops hid really well. At that particular trap police loved to give reckless driving charges for going over the speed limit...they usually lowered the charges to something less serious but they always had $600 fines. They made a lot of money off reckless driving charges.