Volunteers in citizen radar patrol have speeders in their sights

[proud2BlibKansan]

Robynn Saucier stood on the sidewalk near her Lee’s Summit home and carefully aimed the radar gun at the black Ford 500 motoring down the roadway toward her.

“Let’s see what this one does,” she said. “Forty-one?! … She’s not even slowing down. … What an idiot.”

Saucier is not a cop but a citizen on radar patrol.

The 58-year-old retired Southwestern Bell worker is part of a growing corps of people in communities across the country who are using police department-issued radar guns to monitor how fast motorists are driving near their homes.

Lee’s Summit police will send letters to motorists, alerting them that they were clocked speeding by a resident volunteer. Citations are not issued, but motorists are encouraged to slow down.

Moments later, Saucier clocked a vehicle traveling west on Longview Road at 48 mph, well above the posted 35 mph speed limit.


Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/27/4259543/volunteers-in-citizen-radar-patrol.html#storylink=cpy

[galileoreloaded]

1. attach a camera and send tickets!

free metal posts!

[ReRe]

2. It's devide and conquer out there in KC...

... isn't it? Any citizen who does that is asking for it. Hope she has no kids, grandkids or pets in her neighborhood, as she's going to have to lay landmines around her fortress to protect herself. It's the wild wild west out there all over again.

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. When I was a kid, the police set up a speed trap down the street from our house.

They sat in front of a house that was around a curve in the road. Speeders didn't see the cop until it was too late.

Then someone slashed the tires of the people who lived in that house. No more speed trap.

[ReRe]

11. Never seen that before...

...cop on someone's private property commandeering a speed trap. My argument is that it's dangerous for a private citizen to be doing speed traps for the police. Bet this new thing doesn't last long either when harm comes to a few of these private junior police.

[HughBeaumont]

4. "Stalker II" . . . fitting.

[HappyMe]

10. From the Zimmerman School of Neighborhood Safety.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

5. She looks like an asshole.

[HappyMe]

6. Good grief!

Vigilantes!

Although it would be funny to see how many of the Stalker II people speed themselves.

[RedCappedBandit]

18. I'd bet money that they all do, at least on accident.

It simply happens, regardless of the people that would have us believe they've never gone over the speed limit a second in their lives.

[MindPilot]

7. mmmm the smell of authoritarianism in the morning!

The problem with vigilante justice is that it usually has to be resolved with more vigilante justice. I hope this wannabe swine gets hers.

[Dash87]

8. Grown up hall monitors!

I know someone that works with someone like this. He's also a tremendous kiss ass and frequently gets everyone in trouble when he's not calling the police every hour. The police all hate him because he's a wannabe and a pest.

[bighart]

9. I despise the idea of neighbors spying on each other like this.

I also have no love for idiots that speed in residential areas. Obey the posted speed limit in residential areas please, you never know where a kid might be lurking.

[Pragdem]

12. I'd like to do this to vehicles that ride the bumpers of others...

Because they're too impatient to follow the law like everyone else.

[name not needed]

13. These people have too much time on their hands.

[Motown_Johnny]

14. I'm not against this.

If it helps police identify roads where more people are speeding then they can use their limited resources more effectively.

Since this is only information gathering, and not actual enforcement, from citizens I think it is OK.

If you read the second to last paragraph in the article it says that half the cars were not speeding and of the ones that were most were under 10 mph over the limit. Only a few were 15+ mph over.

[snooper2]

15. If I was close by I would have to use her efforts for good...

First, drive the opposite direction to pace out a quarter mile from where she is standing.

Turn around, do the required burn out to get the tires hot and sticky, and let her clock my quarter mile time

[Rex]

16. Seems some people have all day to kill time

sadly they don't volunteer at soup kittens, instead they decide to be a real pain in the ass for their neighbors and are outraged that the rest of the world exists as it does.

[RedCappedBandit]

20. Seriously, wtf?

*this* is how they volunteer their time?

[Starry Messenger]

17. I can get being frustrated, but sometimes you just have to take a deep breath and hug a puppy

or something. Go look at a flower. There are aspects of life you cannot control. This might be one of them.

We have those radar signs that tell you if you're going above the speed limit as you pass them, and I see people slow down for those. Wouldn't that be more cost effective than buying $1500 radar guns?

[Major Nikon]

19. It's all fun and games till a kid gets run over on a bicycle

Speed all you want on the highway, but those who speed through residential areas are assholes. Puss-filled festering assholes even. Any assholery imagined on the part of this woman pales in comparison. Nothing she is doing increases the risk of a child dying because some cretin thinks the law doesn't apply to them.

Just sayin'

[Spirochete]

21. Speeder vigilantes?

Well, I guess that helps free up the real police to taser more cripples to death. etc.