Question for a LEO

[Big E3]

I accidentally sprayed my hose into the passenger side window of a vehicle speeding up my street the other day.

Sounds like a rough neighborhood, speeders and people holding there hose in the front yard. I hope no children are present. If a cop does show up he will be conflicted as to giving speeding tickets or indecent exposure tickets.

[Ah Pook]

Just out of curiosity, how do you know it is a cop car?

Pulled up on the right side berm as you enter the Boulder city limits. All lights go off when someone passes too fast. Yes, I have seen it go after "bad guy" speeders. <yes, there is humor there>

[cstone]

Pulled up on the right side berm as you enter the Boulder city limits. All lights go off when someone passes to fast. Yes, I have seen it go after "bad guy" speeders. <yes, there is humor there>

So the lights are visible when activated? I knew there was something that had to give it away.

I sometimes think about the crazy idea the Maryland State Police had on I 95 near the Susquehanna River bridge many years ago. They parked an older, out of service marked car in the median with a 2D cut out of a trooper in the driver's seat. For several months the prop worked and as expected, driver's on both sides of the road would brake and slow a bit as they moved past. Alas, some nefarious types eventually figured out that the marked car was unmanned and the vehicle was left on blocks with some very rude graffiti spray painted on various parts. Thus ended the service of that marked car.

Traffic patrol has it's uses and given the number of annual traffic fatalities in our nation, I try to give some latitude to the revenue generation side of law enforcement.

[Ah Pook]

There was a CO town that had an old Scout, with a mannequin, parked on the outside of town...

Yes, tickets are revenue generators these days...

[Great-Kazoo]

There was a CO town that had an old Scout, with a mannequin, parked on the outside of town...

Yes, tickets are revenue generators these days...

They're the life blood of every place in the country.
Some more than others.


Nassau Cty ran a 69 4 door Belevedre. Use to sit on the end of the hwy. It was a real sleeper.

[GilpinGuy]

I remember there was a small town (sw co?) we used to drive through years ago for work that had a plywood cutout of a police car on the side of the road outside of town. I have no idea if the police put it there or some resident did.

I thought it was brilliant idea. I also thought, why not put dummy cars here and there on the highways and move them to different spots each day. Just junkers painted up. People would see them and slow down. You would need some real enforcement as well so folks wouldn't just blow them off. Mission accomplished, except for the brining in revenue part.

[Ah Pook]

The Empire Cop works four days a month, then BS' with the locals.

[BigBear]

Interesting.... I just I've just always seen marked cars used for traffic and the unmarked for UC type stuff...

Thanks for the info/discussion.

[TFOGGER]

There is an unmarked interceptor cop car that sits on Hwy 36, south of Boulder. Flat black Charger(?), blacked out windows, no visible lights or insignias. Looks like a Road Warrior wannabe.

The State Patrol out of Golden has an F150 that's stealthy as heck. The light bars are inside the windshield and rear glass, tinted windows, no extra external antennae. I saw him with a tractor trailer pulled over on I-70 @ about Colfax this morning.

[speedysst]

That would be the Town of Alma between Fairplay and Breckenridge. Dont want a ticket, dont break the law. Its worked for me for 30 years.

There was a CO town that had an old Scout, with a mannequin, parked on the outside of town...

Yes, tickets are revenue generators these days...