classic car

Starting last weekend, many police agencies in the Midwest started cracking down on speeders and people not wearing seat belts. We saw many police vehicles in our area patrolling, but something I didn't expect is that the Green Bay Police Department has started using truly undercover vehicles and used the exact same tactics for undercover cars that I suggested in my blog post about police cars a few months ago!
I saw that our local police has at least two completely undercover cars in its force. One is a 2003 Ford passenger full-size van, which could, in theory, round up nine teens partying at a memorial, saving the police the time and hassle of getting tons of two-arrestee cars there. The other car was being particularly clever and using tactics, as mentioned earlier, I talked about in an older post. This rough-looking Ford Contour was camped out on the side of highway 41 in Green Bay, looking for all the world like any regular crap car of that era that had broken down for the last time. The police, from far away, looked like he was laying his head on the roof of his car in despair, but in reality he was operating a speed-checker. But by the time you figure that out you've been pulled over by one the new Dodge Chargers, and you have no idea where you put your license. Uh oh!
So far the campaign has paid off. Here are some of the statistics. One in particular is interesting:
324 without seat belts
321 speeding
2 DUIs
2 Fugitives caught (this is the interesting one, in case you hadn't figured it out.)
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