COLDWATER
The Department That Policed for ProfitBy Mohamed Aslam
Length1h 21m
About this audiobook
For over a decade, a small-town Texas police department turned a nineteen-mile stretch of interstate into its largest source of revenue — seizing cash and property from drivers who were almost never charged with a crime. Then a routine stop over a broken taillight and eight thousand dollars in legitimate business cash ended with a man dead on the highway shoulder, and the department's official story very nearly held.
Coldwater: The Department That Policed for Profit traces a financially incentivized policing scheme from its quiet beginnings through the death it caused, the deputy who gave up her career to tell the truth about it, the reporter who spent three years fighting records requests to prove it, and the federal civil rights investigation that finally forced a reckoning. A story about what happens when a department's survival depends on treating the people it's sworn to protect as a revenue source.
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GenreTrue Crime
Length1 hr 21 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 27, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2Prologue: The Corridor
3Chapter One: Policing for Profit
4Chapter Two: What the Money Actually Paid For
5Chapter Three: The Stop
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6Chapter Four: Forty Minutes
7Chapter Five: What the Department Said Happened
8Chapter Six: Deputy Vasquez-Reyes Resigns
9Chapter Seven: The Reporter Who Wouldn't Let It Go
10Chapter Twenty-Four: Three Years of Records Requests
11Chapter Eight: What the Footage Actually Showed
12Chapter Nine: The Department of Justice Arrives
13Chapter Ten: What the Data Showed
14Chapter Nineteen: The Ones Who Never Got Their Money Back
15Chapter Eleven: A Formal Finding
16Chapter Twenty: A National Pattern, Not a Local One
17Chapter Twelve: The Indictments
18Chapter Twenty-One: Randall Kessler Before the Stop
19Chapter Thirteen: The Trial
20Chapter Twenty-Two: What the Medical Examiner Found
21Chapter Twenty-Five: What Training Experts Told the Jury
22Chapter Fourteen: The Verdict
23Chapter Fifteen: What Holcombe Said
24Chapter Sixteen: A Department Remade
25Chapter Twenty-Three: The Council That Looked Away
26Chapter Seventeen: What Marcus Deveraux Left Behind
27Chapter Eighteen: Rewriting Texas Forfeiture Law
28Chapter Twenty-Six: Eight Places, One Country
29Author's Note
30Epilogue: What the Highway Remembers
THE KING OF BROKEN VOWSMohamed Aslam2h 5m Only with Ultra
THE GIRL IN THE WINTER GARDENMohamed Aslam1h 35m Only with Ultra
THE LAST CALL FROM ASHCROFTMohamed Aslam4h 41m Only with Ultra
THE WOMAN IN ROOM 317Mohamed Aslam4h 30m Only with Ultra
THE HOUSE BEYOND THE TIDEMohamed Aslam1h 46m Only with Ultra
THE LAST LIGHT AT BRIAR COVEMohamed Aslam1h 28m Only with Ultra
THE LIGHTHOUSE BETWEEN USMohamed Aslam1h 39m Only with Ultra
THE WIDOW'S LAST LETTERMohamed Aslam1h 10m Only with Ultra
Provenance Mohamed Aslam54m Only with Ultra
THE LAST TENANTMohamed Aslam1h Only with Ultra
Fatal ExitMohamed Aslam52m Only with Ultra
The Girl Who Never Left Cedar LakeMohamed Aslam50m Only with Ultra
THE HOLLOW HOURMohamed Aslam 1h 3m Only with Ultra
Drowned HarborMohamed Aslam49m Only with Ultra
BRAEBURNMohamed Aslam 54m Only with Ultra
THE LAST VOICE ON BLACKWOOD...Mohamed Aslam 1h 27m Only with Ultra
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BROOKHAVENMohamed Aslam 51m Only with Ultra
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