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Title: Volunteer Radar Gunslingers Nail Speeders
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USA Today
URL Source: http://www.usatoday.com/printeditio ... /20071023/a_radargun23.art.htm
Published: Oct 23, 2007
Author: Joanne bratton
Post Date: 2007-10-23 13:24:38 by who knows what evil
Keywords: Volunteer, Police, Speeder
Views: 138
Comments: 5
Speeders beware. Your neighbors might have you on their radar. That's the message police departments across the country are trying to send by loaning residents radar guns and turning them into neighborhood speed watchers. Volunteers can't ticket the drivers they catch breaking the speed limit, but their reports can result in warning letters being sent by police, depending on how fast the drivers were going. Police say the program is worth it if it can make even a few motorists obey speed limits. "It's one more element of enforcing speed," says Lt. Daniel Furseth of the DeForest Police Department in Wisconsin. For the past year, the village has allowed residents to borrow a battery-operated radar gun for a week or two, sit on their front lawns and record the speeds of passing motorists. Typically, a warning letter is sent when speeds are 13 mph over the limit, but it depends on the residential area, Furseth says. The police department has sent out a couple dozen warning letters, he says. "One parent called and was glad we sent a letter," Furseth says. "But it's not always the kids (who are speeding) — it's the soccer moms, too." Elsewhere: •Residents in Loveland, Ohio, are invited to sign up in teams of two or three to use the Stalker II, a hand-held, battery-operated radar gun. •In the Chicago suburb of Naperville, Ill., residents affiliated with homeowners associations use the radar guns. "Some people seemed surprised. Some took notice and slowed down," says Bob Fischer, director of the Naperville Area Homeowners Confederation. "Others were angry that we were interfering with their inherent right to get to the train station — or back home — as quickly as possible." •In Shawnee, Kan., a suburb of Kansas City, police allow residents to use radar guns on residential streets that are posted 25 mph or less, police Sgt. Doug Orbin says. The volunteer must stay in his or her vehicle while using the radar gun, he says. •This week, the police department in The Dalles, Ore., started taking names of interested citizens who want to be neighborhood speed watchers.
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#1. To: Christine, lodwick, Jethro Tull, Arator, IndieTX, bluedogtxn, ALL (#0)
Time to get a passport.
How do you know a police state when you see one?
Antiparty - find out why, think about 'how'
My thoughts exactly as I read another story in the Times yesterday about a proposal to restrict all people currently under 21 to buying cigarettes without nicotine and make it illegal to sell nicotine cigarettes to them EVER- their whole lives- and to tax all nicotine cigarette smokers even more. The American collective personality is totalitarian and criminal in the extreme.
I hope you still think it's worth it when you get "off-duty" and return home to find your families hacked apart with a meat cleaver. Wannabe jackboots have children that grow up to be wannabe jackboots, just as crooked politicians have children who become crooked politicians and kops have children who grow up to be kops (or crooked politicians, every kop's wet- dream). Therefore, your children become legitimate targets. Y'all need to get on the right side of this fight, or suffer the consequences. You're being watched. Helpful hint to all you MFing 30%ers: The right side of the fight is with the people, not the government.
Divide and conquer. PArt of the PoliceState manifesto.
Law Enforcement Against ProhibitionRemember...G-d saved more animals than people on the ark. www.siameserescue.org
#2. To: who knows what evil (#1)
#3. To: who knows what evil (#1)
#4. To: All you Joe Junior Jackboot Wannabe Traffik Kops out there. (#0)
(Edited)
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
#5. To: who knows what evil (#0)
"There is no 'legitimate' Corporation by virtue of it's very legal definition and purpose."
-- IndieTx
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