Wednesday, August 08, 2007

One of the problems with Law Enforcement using Radar Guns in a neighborhood is that the officers are usually spotted before a car reaches excessive speed. While this is a good way to make people slow down, as soon as the police officer packs their radarguns away the people start to speed up again.

Some of the Chicago suburbs have started a new program. Communities like Buffalo Grove and the Illinois State Police have begun disguising their officers as construction workers and landscapers. They sit on their lawnmowers wearing orange reflective vests and zap speeders with their radar guns as the cars pass by. The undercover officers then radio ahead to the uniformed officers with the license plate number, vehicle description, and clocked speed. The cars are then pulled over and issued a ticket. This program is so effective, that 30 tickets were written in a 1 ½ hour period. Not bad for a day’s work.

See article in the Chicago Tribune

Ryan