Posted on 01/31/2015 5:25:40 AM PST by WhiskeyX
(STMW) – A southwest suburban man was charged with impersonating a police officer after actual law enforcement officials saw him driving a car made to look like a police cruiser.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicago.cbslocal.com ...
Just because he was driving a car? He never said he was a cop?
Case dismissed.
No,, his car was equipped to look like a police car, and he had phony police identification, including an assortment of police badges and uniforms in the fake police car.
“... just because he was driving a car?”
Uh.. I think the police uniforms and badges were a HUGE clue (minus the other things). Scary stuff.. I remember cases in Maryland where a man impersonating LE would pull over women at night. He’d then told them to get out of their cars (which they complied) and he would rape them. They eventually found the man with all the same items (blue light, grill light, uniforms, fake badges, etc).
At 2 am the cops came to our door and said that they had received a 911 call from our home. Any thoughts on that?
This is what our local law enforcement advised during the serial rapist time (I was in my late teens/early 20’s and had a job that I drove home after midnight). If you doubt the person is law enforcement (usually a car without county or state markings), request that a uniformed officer in a marked car be dispatched to your location. Any plain clothed officer will request from their dispatch that a uniformed officer be sent. As for your situation, NO clue. Our 911 center can receive hang ups (defined that someone in the house called 911 but hung up at some point during the call). Little kids (especially when learning all about 911) may use the phone to “practice” and hang up. The police will respond to a 911 hang up in case something was occurring (a true medical or law enforcement call) and you had to/forced to hang up. I am not sure if all locations have the 911 center/location of home technology.
That’s odd. Did they say it was a completed call (the caller made verbal contact with the 911 operator) or a hang-up call?
Most municipalities require police to check a home that has a 911 hang-up call.
If you’re suspicious and don’t mind rubbing their fur the wrong way, you can request a copy of the call log to see if they actually did receive a 911 call from your number.
Check the time stamp. See if a call could have come from someone in your area and that they got the address wrong.
If there was no call and no mistaken address, you may want to ask the chief what is going on.
Because, you know, the cops shouldn’t be allowed to lie about a 911 call just to take a peak inside someone’s home.
Not to mention the danger element for anyone knocking on a door at 2:00 a.m.
If you’ve programmed a one button memory phone to be able to call 911, and if you have cats (or maybe dogs)...
I will ask Mr. Mercat. He’s sleeping in. I didn’t get out of bed. They did not come in the house I know that.
One of my “angels” did the “practice 911” on the phone when SHE was five. We actually got a call back from 911 and I asked her about it. We did have the conversation about only using it when needed (and I gave many examples). She then practiced on her little plastic phone. However, a uniformed car did show up about ten minutes after I hung up with the 911 operator.
You can drive into just about any minority neighborhood and find old unmarked cars sold at auction which still have the spotlights installed in them.heck I’d keep it installed too. Would sure come in hand searching for your dog if he runs off or setting up a tent on a camping trip.
> No,, his car was equipped to look like a police car, and he had phony police identification, including an assortment of police badges and uniforms in the fake police car.
Been used to rape a lot of women in the past...
> At 2 am the cops came to our door and said that they had received a 911 call from our home. Any thoughts on that?
Burglar alarm glitch?
Nope. No burglar alarm, no little kids. I’ll report back when I know more (i.e. when Mr. M wakes up)
Cops take it VERY seriously if you rig your car so that somebody might think you were a cop.
How many dogs did he shoot?
Foe example, you could buy and drive a dark gray Crown Victoria and have a searchlight mounted on the driver door.
It wouldn't have any police markings, but 100% of the people you pulled up behind would think you were an unmarked police cruiser.
You could even wear a hat that would look something like a state police hat, something purchased in an ordinary store.
I posit that you would not be actually breaking the law, but you would be affecting other drivers’ behavior.
Search for the case of “The Red Light Bandit” aka Caryl Chessman...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caryl_Chessman
My father was an arresting officer in that case.
I thought you couldn’t even have blue & red lights on a civilian car (though you could mount yellow/amber ones). Nowadays they probably just hide them in the grill.
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