Vehicle surveillance company's "free" deal turns Texas cops into bill-collectors

Vigilant Solutions is "one of the country's largest brokers of vehicle surveillance technology" and they've got a great deal for Texas police forces: install our license-readers and we'll alert you every time someone with an overdue fine drives through your town. You pull them over and offer them a trip to jail or immediate payment, using our credit-card machines, for which we charge a 25% "fee" which goes straight into our pockets. (more")