Cop dresses like panhandler to catch lawbreakers

tay

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Royal Canadian Mounted Police Cpl. Mark Taylor is not homeless, but that’s the impression he gave earlier this week during a curbside sting to catch disobedient motorists.


Donning blue jeans, sunglasses and a baseball cap, Taylor stood at a busy intersection Monday afternoon in Vernon, British Columbia. He held up a cardboard sign that read, “I am not homeless.


RCMPolice looking for seatbelt/cellphone.” To be fair, the word “not” was written is smaller letters and the bottom part of the sign, which identified him as a police officer, was sometimes covered up, according to the local Daily Courier. But that didn’t seem to stop people from falling for it.


For an hour, Taylor stood there, peeking into cars to see whether drivers were obeying seatbelt and cellphone laws. It is illegal there to drive without a seatbelt or to drive while texting, even at intersections. When Taylor spotted lawbreakers, he alerted other officers down the road who were waiting to issue tickets. The officers handed out 11 citations.






Sly Canadian cop catches lawbreakers while posing as panhandler - The Washington Post










 

MHz

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Was 11 tickets the 'quest' and they got that in 1 hour or was it a full 8 hr shift that cost the city about $10k more than the 11 tickets would bring in? (about $2,000)
 

eh1eh

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Pigs love entrapment. Gives them something to do. Too many law abiding citizens means less cops.
Maybe they should catch some actual criminals who are harming society not some poor f@cker checking his email at a light.
 

taxslave

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Pigs love entrapment. Gives them something to do. Too many law abiding citizens means less cops.
Maybe they should catch some actual criminals who are harming society not some poor f@cker checking his email at a light.

Regular criminals rarely have money or the inclination to donate to the government. For the most part honest people will just pay the tax and go on with their lives.
 

JLM

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Could this be why JLM is so pissed at the RCMP? Perhaps he was the recipient of a citation.

Keep grasping- maybe some day (if you change your M.O.) you might catch something. :) :) :) :)

Awesome, now if the western provinces would bump up the fines to $1000 like Ontario for talking on the phone, maybe idiot in front of me would start paying attention the friggin road signs again.

(Thumbs for you Tay, great article)

That scene happened two miles from my house!