[KneelBeforeZod]

have a look at this picture. You can barely see this guys badge.... if I saw this guy walking up to me in the DC area, I just might get tunnel vision and only see the hood and gun...then floor it away. I sure hope this doesn't happen and an innocent civilian gets shot to pieces. The caption makes it sound like he was pulled over into a checkpoint though...

eA Fairfax County, Va. police officer checks a van stopped on Interstate 395 in Springfield, Va. Friday, Oct. 11, 2002 as police searched for a sniper on the major interstate after a van was seen leaving the scene of a deadly shooting at a Virginia gas station Friday morning. It wasn't immediately clear if the shooting near Fredericksburg was linked to nine sniper attacks that have left seven people dead in the Washington area. (AP Photo/Rob Ostermaier)

[J. Semper Paratus]

I work with cops. If I saw this guy I would stop and arrest him. He in no way resembles a police officer. He needs to be in a marked vest, jacket or uniform, with a clearly visible badge.

The county sheriff in charge of this county has the responsibility of making sure that all law enforcement officers, local, state, and federal, are properly uniformed in his/her county.

To allow this type of nonstandard outfit is a shirking of that elected official's duty. People are scared enough already.

[SGCOS]

Don't know about anybody else, but I'd both hands on the steerin' wheel in plain view.

[ArrogantBustard]

I don't much care for it either, but what the picture doesn't show is the place swarming with uniformed police and marked cruisers with lots of flashing blue lights. This whole business of covering their faces, obscuring badges, etc is generally not a good thing.