Posted on 11/16/2022 10:09:46 PM PST by lowbridge
Edited on 11/17/2022 10:48:29 AM PST by Jim Robinson. [history]
A road-raging Utah man was busted after he pointed a gun at a driver who turned out to be a police officer in an unmarked vehicle.
Taylor Ray Bradley, 29, was driving just outside of Salt Lake City around 11:45 a.m. on Monday when a truck in front of him signaled to turn. Infuriated, Bradley began tailgating the driver, according to an affidavit obtained by KSL.
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A road-rage Mormon? I told Romney not to pack any heat, but noooooo.
Now so big & bad now..huh?
**I didn’t know Cops would drive trucks too as unmarked vehicles. It makes sense that they would, to blend in to particular environments. I just never thought about it.
The Granite School District has a police department? with a sergeant??
Journalism today...
“...The truck driver, a sergeant
with the Granite School District Police Department
driving an unmarked cop car...”
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Truck, car, whatever...
They drive everything... Couple few years ago there was a felon who shot at cops or something around Fresno. He led them on like a 60-100 mile chase. He went past me and I pulled over when the cops with their lights and sirens on came following... I counted about 90 cops following him.. in every car imaginable... 20 year old beater mini-vans, old beater trucks kindda smashed up, everything. I was so surprised at all the under covers there were... you never know who is next to you on the road.
A few years back I read about a local who wrote the most speeding tickets by sitting on the side of the road in a pick up with a bale of hay in the back. Clever.
You ever been to Texas? The undercovers drive trucks. They let the leadsleds do the chase. Trucks roll,.
Lots of school districts have their own PDs.
I’m not saying this is a good thing, but it is a thing.
It’s a bad thing.
Agreed.
This is a natural result of school districts having their own taxation authority. They don’t like having another entity having eyes on their activities, which would be the result of them having police funded by the local government (city/county) on site. So they fund their own PD which they control. The enabling legislation from the state level comes because local school systems wield immense political power in state legislatures. The bill comes around to enable this, “it’s for the children”, and BAM!, it’s a done deal.
Bad idea, less checks and balances on the schools.
In Maryland there is no telling what they’re in.
We sat and watched a slew of cops swarm in to deal with a pack of feral teen girls who had been spree-shoplifting a whole strip mall and the “Shabby Serpico” undercover cop showed up in the junkiest Toyota I’ve ever seen still running.
It was cool.
My step father was chief criminal deputy then under sheriff for an urban county when I was growing up. At that time, the entire criminal division drove unmarked cars. In the 1990s, the sheriffs office criminal division largely transformed into marked “county police” cars.
Before retirement, his last sheriff's car was an unmarked Oldsmobile Delta 88. Plainest, most boring looking car you can imagine. Under the hood was a cop special suspension and high output 455ci engine highlighting the drivetrain. On the trunk was a thin 18in radio antenna you would never see from 20 or so feet away. In the glove box was a magnetic red light. In the trunk was an arsenal.
When my step dad passed away, I was in charge of liquidating his private weapons acquired over a number of decades. A few of the weapons were of particular concern. One was a riot shotgun that couldn't be found. I found out he had given it to another deputy a year or so before he died. Another was a sawed off double barrel shot gun. I gave it to a state bureau of investigation officer that used it in his undercover pickup truck. He sewed a sleeve low on the front of the drivers seat and stowed it there below his legs.
So…. Subject of the OP guy that did the road rage thing against an officer driving an unmarked car. Lock the ah…. up.
School Boards having police authority is beyond insanity !
Seems you are implying that law enforcement doesn’t have to obey the law?
Nah, no implication. He’s saying it out in the open and in plain English. LEO in unmarked cars or in plain clothes, NO RULES APPLY.
Helps them to blend in by looking like and acting like CRIMINALS.
Louisville KY has a collection of confiscated unmarked cars including Corvettes, Canaros, Mustangs, and even European sports cars. Had a Ferrari and Lamborghini at one time.
Which law
I just saw about 12 on 4 wheelers drive by (3 in the morning here).
I asked the security guard here if the 4 wheelers where legal here, he replied that hey were cops sweeping the homeless out.. o.O
He continues that they were Beach Police.
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