This i respect.... cops vs driver, one on one.... In an effort to catch more drivers illegally using their phones, police in Dunellen New Jersey dressed up in a hunter ghillie camo suit and stood next to an extra-leafy tree, looking for drivers who were holding their phones in violation of a statewide ban.

the results? 74 citations for distracted driving in six hours.

https://www.thedrive.com/news/cops-imitating-plants-catch-74-drivers-on-their-phones-in-six-hours

you've heard about all the cities looking to cash in on Flock surveillance cameras with tickets on registration and speeding... but anyone ever heard of a city FINDING an UNAUTHORIZED Flock Camera? Millcreek Utah discovered one that they did NOT pay for, and don't get the data from

A Flock automated license plate reader was recently discovered on Millcreek city property. City leaders say they did not authorize its installation and do not know who did.

The camera has since been removed, but its discovery raises broader questions about how it got there and whether unauthorized cameras have been installed elsewhere.

What are the implications? ANYONE can put up a Flock Camera LOOKALIKE and data gather until it's discovered. 

Yup, if Iran wants to snoop on Washington DC? Get some Flock Cameras installed.

If the Bin Ladens want too keep an eye on One World Trade Center in time for the 9-11 anniversary? Install some Flock Cameras. 

That right there is an example of how the govt won't have a damn clue who put up how many or where, or for what reason, because the govt isn't keeping an eye on what cameras are installed, they are only keeping an eye on the people they can fine and ticket. 

So, how long until TMZ and other paparazzi install cameras that look like Flock, and track Hollywood celebs? How long until China installs Flock Cameras to track who and what comes and goes off military bases, air fields, and ports? 

Just sayin, Big Brother ain't the only one who wants cameras watching us, and Flock doesn't care who pays with a credit card. They'll get a subcontractor out there installing them.

I think it would be a hoot to have hundreds or thousands installed, get an AI bot to monitor and edit a highlights reel of all the illegal things that any police department does.

https://kutv.com/news/local/city-removes-unauthorized-flock-license-plate-reader-camera 

the rich people around London are pushing for more scrutiny from London Metro Police to bust hooligans... and a Dubai-registered Ferrari Monza SP2, (1 of 499 made, worth 4M), was confiscated because it was uninsured and the driver wasn't properly licsensed

It was one of 90 vehicles worth a combined total of more than £8m seized over the weekend as part of an operation with the Motor Insurers’ Bureau (MIB) cracking down on uninsured motorists and antisocial and dangerous driving around Hyde Park, Kensington and Chelsea.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/aug/10/police-officer-gets-chance-to-drive-ferrari-seized-in-met-crackdown

Have you ever been pulled over and the cop goes back to the cruiser, and you’re sitting there waiting…

And then the cop comes back and gives you a warning and tells you to have a good day….??? 

Well, what happened was that cop definitely dropped your driver's license down the crack in the seat between the center console, and it absolutely took him at least 15 minutes to fish it out.

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1467757575393232&set=a.218838560285146

after two deadly shootings in less than a week, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will pause non-urgent vehicle stops, and maybe, comply with the federal govt use of deadly force policy? The use of body cams?

ICE agents tried to pull over the car of 26-year-old Joan Durán Guerrero, a Colombian national, and the agent shot and killed him. The agents were not wearing body cameras, 

ICE agents in Houston attempted to pull Salgado Araujo over agents say he tried to use his van as a weapon,

The Department of Homeland Security's policy says deadly force cannot be used solely to prevent someone from fleeing … unless the person poses a significant threat of death or serious physical harm to the agent or others.

DHS accused Salgado Araujo of weaponizing his car against the ICE officer. In Maine, the agency said Durán Guerrero posed a public safety threat.

But in these cases, there hasn't been video evidence to back up those allegations.

None of the federal immigration agents were wearing body cameras, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

After the shooting of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis in January, DHS vowed to quickly deploy body cameras to federal immigration agents nationwide.

But that hasn't happened.

https://www.npr.org/2026/07/14/nx-s1-5893456/ice-vehicle-biddeford-houston

San Diego PD busted by the city’s police oversight commission, for harassing blacks 4 to 1 compared to whites, or hispanics, or asians

Black drivers stopped for low-level traffic violations in San Diego were more than four times as likely as White drivers to be frisked and more than three times as likely to be subjected to force, according to an analysis presented by the city’s police oversight commission, which is recommending broad restrictions on so-called pretext stops. At a community forum last weekend, the San Diego Commission on Police Practices unveiled four draft policy recommendations aimed at limiting officers’ ability to use minor equipment and administrative violations — such as broken tail lights, expired registration tags or objects hanging from rearview mirrors — as a basis for investigating unrelated suspected crimes.

Commission investigator Ethan Waterman presented a review of SDPD’s 2024 stop data, the most recent available.

According to Waterman, the department reported 103,463 stops in 2024, including about 24,000 traffic stops involving equipment violations and other non-moving infractions.

Within the low-level stop category, the commission identified significant racial disparities.

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/06/18/low-public-safety-return-police-oversight-commission-calls-for-limits-on-pretext-traffic-stops/

THIS is big brother watching, and too many bullies with badges abusing their access to Flock. Greene County, Georgia, deputy arrested after audit shows she used Flock cameras for personal reasons, sheriff says

 the cowards in Georgia won't even state what she did, when she repeatedly accessed Flocks database without authorization, illegally. 

It's so bad, they had to arrest her, and fire her. 

And they will not let us get upset by learning what cops do with unlimited illegal access to Flock. 

Former Greene County Deputy Quinsha Goss is facing charges of violating her oath of office and violating the prohibition on law enforcement retaining license plate data obtained from automated license plate recognition systems.

Authorities say an audit of the system on June 30 found that Goss had accessed the system for personal reasons multiple times over a three-month period.

Goss' arrest and firing come just a day after the Georgia Bureau of Investigation arrested five police officers in Albany, Georgia, accusing them of misusing their access to that city's Flock Safety System. All five have also been fired.

In June, the Cherokee County Sheriff's Office charged and fired two of its supervisors for allegedly misusing the county's system.

https://www.cbsnews.com/atlanta/news/greene-county-deputy-arrested-after-audit-shows-she-used-flock-cameras-for-personal-reasons-sheriff-says/

I regretfully report that a USD student has died, killed by a marked cop car, 130 am, on Linda Vista Road between Goshen and Brunner streets.

In 2016, the city developed a Comprehensive Active Transportation Strategy for Linda Vista that recommended installing a high-visibility ladder-style crosswalk and a pedestrian-activated high-intensity signal beacon near a staircase that serves as a shortcut to and from the University of San Diego campus

The estimated cost of the improvements was $111,000.

In order to save money, the improvement to increase pedestrian safety next to a major university was ignored. 

The damn city should be sued for ignoring it's duty, and responsibility to safety, after it conducted an investigation of how to prevent pedestrian deaths, and was informed that a crosswalk overpass walking bridge would get students off the road

Hell, the university is also liable IMHO for not insisting that the city build the walking bridge

And HOW does a cop in a cop car STRIKE and kill a person? Probably using a cell phone or the unit laptop... which the state decided wasn't "unsafe" for cops, just illegally unsafe for all the rest of us. 

So, yeah, the city of San Diego, the SDPD, and USD, I'd say they all ought to line up across the court room from the plaintiff, and try to weasel out of the jury's focus. 

https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/safety-improvements-proposed-years-ago-site-fatal-usd-student-crash/4038453/

related news item, 

a city council committee meeting Wednesday, which highlighted the $116 million cost of settlements and judgements involving SDPD since fiscal year 2017.

In fiscal year 2026 alone, SDPD settlements and judgements reached a record $42 million.

a $10 million settlement for the life of Arabella McCormack, 11, who died of severe abuse in August 2022.
“An SDPD officer was alleged to have visited the home, and contributed to the abuse by directly supplying wooden paddles, not paddle, paddles to the family,”

$30 million went to the family of Konoa Wilson, the 16-year-old shot and killed by a San Diego police officer last year while running from gunfire.

A cop shot Konoa in the back. 

https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/san-diego-police-lawsuit-payouts-top-116-million-over-10-years/4038308/

SDPD Annual Budget is 32% of San Diego's total General Fund expenditures.

San Diego's police misconduct settlement payouts are roughly 1/16th the SDPD budget

The San Diego Police Department (SDPD) operates on an annual General Fund budget of $703.5 million,

police-related settlements and judgments have average about $42.5 million annually 

ACLU data indicates that SDPD payouts are roughly 15 million higher than the settlements paid by all other city departments combined.

Out of 13,000 AI-generated citations in Athens Greece, officers reviewed 5,500 and only approved 400, yet officials are calling the rollout a success

Of those reviewed, just 400 were judged valid. The other 5,100 were thrown out, split between 3,800 speeding violations and 1,300 covering mobile phone use, seatbelt non-compliance, and similar offenses. The two piles were rejected for completely different reasons. 

The 3,800 speeding citations were dropped automatically because they relied on average-speed calculations, a method Greece currently has no legislative framework to support, so that batch isn’t a software failure at all.

Police officers found that the software routinely mistook dark objects for smartphones and got tripped up by unrelated driver gestures, things like taking a vape hit or simply changing gears.

In several cases, the cameras flagged non-existent front-seat passengers for failing to wear a seatbelt, triggering automated notices for empty seats. In others, drivers were fined simply because their dark shirts blended into the seatbelt strap, confusing the camera’s visual sensors.

https://www.carscoops.com/2026/06/athens-ai-traffic-cameras/

amazing and real, crash results in a kid getting ejected from a truck, onto a cop cars hood, and it was all caught on dash cam

https://fordauthority.com/2026/06/child-ejected-from-ford-truck-during-crash-lands-on-police-cruiser-video

LAPD impounded 72 vehicles and issued trespassing citations after responding to a car meetup inside the Los Angeles River

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1553982759484885

The event they were there for was advertised as a photo shoot, https://fordauthority.com/2026/06/ford-mustang-drivers-among-those-arrested-in-la-river-operation-video

someone was watching a lot of movies, and decided to go into production on trackers that cops can shoot your vehicle with, so they don't have to chase it... they just get that tracker on your vehicle, and GPS tracking does the rest

After an officer fires a sticky GPS tracking dart onto the suspect’s fleeing vehicle, police can track vehicles in real time without staying in an active pursuit.

It works by launching a GPS-tracked object using compressed air from the grill of the police car

Then police can back off the pursuit and use the GPS tracker to locate where the vehicle ends up before apprehending the suspect.

https://kmph.com/news/local/no-pursuit-needed-officers-can-now-tag-and-track-getaway-cars-with-gps-darts

https://www.federalwaymirror.com/2023/06/10/federal-way-police-department-tries-out-new-car-tracking-technology/

This may be a result of state laws that restrict when police can engage in a high-speed pursuit

two brothers under FBI investigation video recorded two Houston police illegally putting a GPS tracking device on their vehicle without a warrant. They got the Texas Rangers on the case

The two brothers who were under FBI investigation captured the incident on video and later provided the footage to the FBI Gang Task Force, and a video of the device, that they removed from their vehicle and attached to a random truck at a nearby gas station (Ha! I love that!) 

This was not the first time they had found a tracking device on their vehicle. They said they discovered one on May 4, 2025, and shared photographs it, a device made by LandAirSea Systems, Inc.

https://abc13.com/post/2-houston-police-officers-criminal-investigation-texas-rangers-secret-tracking-device-warrant-shows/19195960/

So, what can we make of that?  The FBI has people under investigation and Houston PD are illegally putting trackers on their vehicle. 

I like that they got the Texas Rangers to deal with it. There's a right way to do things, and evidently, the Houston police repeatedly did it the illegal way. Lazy? Corrupt? 

And why the hell is Houston PD messing with anyone that the FBI is already investigating? 

New York State troopers, dressed as construction workers, issued 94 tickets during an 8-hour enforcement operation in a 55 mph work zone along the New York State Thruway in Herkimer County on Friday.

Speeding accounted for 73% of the citations, with troopers issuing 69 tickets for exceeding the posted limit. The fastest driver was clocked at 79 mph in a 55 mph work zone.

The enforcement effort, called Operation Hard Hat, involved troopers posing as workers within an active construction zone along Interstate 90. The undercover troopers identified violations and radioed uniformed officers in the area to conduct traffic stops.

https://www.syracuse.com/news/2026/05/state-troopers-dressed-as-construction-workers-on-thruway-issue-94-tickets-in-just-8-hours.html

the origin of "tagging a car" to mean giving it at ticket. Here's a 1941 example of a early parking summons, an actual tag with a string at the top. They were tied to the door handle.

https://harleydavidsonfactoryphotos.tumblr.com

here's a new one to me

Three Georgia State Patrol troopers who intentionally bumped vehicles or performed other maneuvers to stop vehicles during pursuits sought payouts afterward from the other driver’s insurance, claiming personal injuries to supplement their paychecks, an internal investigation found.

The three troopers and their supervisor were fired for violating Georgia Department of Public Safety policy and ethical standards 

After using their patrol vehicles to stop a chase — including a “precision immobilization technique,” or PIT maneuver — the troopers would send crash reports to a specific private attorney who would file a personal injury claim, the department said. Then the troopers would receive money when an insurance company settled out of court.

https://apnews.com/article/georgia-troopers-injury-claims-pursuits-4cfc2b673c46df82d26da9989dc88100

BUSTED! Fox 8’s NOPD overtime investigation after cameras found two high-paid sergeants at home while timesheets showed they were on the clock for regular shifts.

Fox 8 found thousands of edits tied to the officers’ timesheets, including more than 900 actions on one timesheet under another sergeant’s user ID and more than 1,600 actions on another timesheet under another sergeant’s user ID. 

 On March 3, March 5, March 8 and March 9, Boone’s timesheets show she was clocked in for her scheduled shift at 6:25 a.m. 

On all four days, Fox 8’s camera recorded her leaving home hours after she was on the clock. On March 8, video shows her leaving her home in uniform at 9:39 a.m., more than three hours after her timesheet showed she was clocked in.

The next day, video showed her walking to her car in uniform around 8:30 a.m., more than two hours after records showed NOPD was paying her.

https://www-fox8live-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.fox8live.com/2026/04/29/nopd-overtime-investigation-finds-more-sergeants-home-while-clock

this isn't AI generated or photoshopped, BUT IT SHOULD BE as a matter of pride, lol... why the hell did the Marines use Gremlins? Did the budget office hate them?

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10238335266098960&set=a.1654457159734

Colorado troopers pulled over 2,540 drivers for ‘hanging out’ in the left lane and failing to move right while traveling at slower speeds than the flow of traffic, in 2025

The top roadways for traffic stops for “hanging out” in the left lane in 2025 are as follows:

I-70 (962 contacts)
I-25 (564 contacts)
Hwy 50 (297 contacts)
Hwy 160 (190 contacts)
E-470 (149 contacts)

Troopers are reminding drivers that in Colorado, multi-lane roads with a posted speed limit of 65 m.p.h. or greater designate the furthest left lane as the “passing lane.”

https://cdllife.com/2026/colorado-troopers-pulled-over-2540-drivers-for-hanging-out-in-the-left-lane-in-2025/

interesting situation, 3 Riverside Police Department officers were given 100% VA disability, went to work for the police dept, and got diabled plates on their cars....

The Riverside Police Department is planning to fire three officers because they have disabled veteran license plates on their personal cars. 

The officers have filed a discrimination lawsuit against the department. 

 The three officers are military veterans, all with a 100% disability rating from the VA. The department is alleging they made false claims about their physical limitations to get those plates. 

Their attorney says that's not true.

https://www.foxla.com/news/riverside-police-officers-disabled-veteran-license-plates.amp