If you drive Alabama’s roads, it’s hard not to notice who you don’t see much of: Alabama state troopers. You can drive for at least an hour in any direction without ever seeing one. It could be because they’re hiding, but most likely, it’s because there aren’t enough of them. Alabama only has 243 troopers on the job. That’s among the lowest in the country. That is well below the nearly 1000 a University of Alabama study found the state needs to adequately monitor the highways. Sources: WAKA-CBS (Montgomery), WNCF-ABC (Montgomery)