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17. Pretty much the same in all Fla small beach towns..

....no real crime so draconian enforcement of the small stuff.

And again, not a "private police force" but a small regular police force.

And it's fairly easy not to get tickets, don't speed thru no wake zones and have the correct safety equipment on board your boat, how is that a bad thing? Are you a fan of unsafe boating? Most Fla small beach towns police force's have their own police boats and enforce exactly the same stuff. Also no wake zones are good for Manatees

As to 19 cops writing 1,600 citations in a year, the tiny town of Waldo in central Fla says "hold my beer":
Waldo's seven police officers wrote nearly 12,000 speeding tickets last year, collecting more than $400,000 in fines - a third of the town's revenue. (although that is old news but Waldo was famous for tickets for any amount over the speed limit)