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Cop under fire for mailing speeding tickets without stopping motorists

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A Texas police officer is under investigation after it was found he was mailing out speeding tickets without actually pulling anyone over.

Houston news channel KHOU 11 discovered that David Carter, a 13-year veteran on the city’s police force, wrote several tickets without making a traffic stop.

One resident claims he received a ticket for doing 90 miles per hour in a 60 zone – when he was not even in the area.

“I was down south in South Texas, so I’m like, well how am I speeding in Houston if I’m out of town?” Emanuel Morfin told KHOU 11.

“It was kind of ridiculous, I was kind of shocked.”

Larry Karson, a criminal justice professor at the University of Houston, told the news channel that Carter abused his authority, and, according to records, wrote that he made the alleged traffic stops in his own car – not in his patrol car.

“He’s actually making the situation worse, because what he’s doing is he’s becoming another vehicle flying down at 90 miles an hour and no one knows that he is a police officer,” Karson told KHOU 11.

“All they know it’s another crazy person on the highway.”

Carter, who has been on the force since 2002, has been suspended with pay and temporarily relieved of his badge and duties, reports KHOU 11.

The city of Houston has dismissed the speeding tickets written by Carter.