Police, Dressed As Homeless, Give Tickets
Homeless advocates are outraged by an operation where undercover police officers dressed as vagrants, observed drivers running red lights or committing other traffic violations, then radioed ahead to other officers who stopped those cars and wrote tickets. "Operation Vagrant," a sting operation involving the Florida Highway Patrol, Kissimmee police and the Osceola County Sheriff's Office, nabbed 171 drivers ý most of whom ran red lights, a violation that carries an $83 fine. There's a reason for the uniform -- it's so we know who is a legitimate police officer. Any police officer operating in disguise is questionable; doing so for a purpose as trivial as catching people who run red lights for an $83 fine is frankly a complete waste of time. |
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