CA Cops Pose As Homeless Panhandlers, Peer Into People's Cars To Ticket Them For Using Cell Phones

Chris | InformationLiberation
Jul. 25, 2015

San Bernardino, California police are posing as homeless panhandlers to get a close look into peoples' cars so they can ticket them for using their cell phone or driving without their seat belt.



Standing on highway off-ramps while holding cardboard signs which say in small lettering that they're "not homeless," but instead "SB police looking for seat belt/cell phone violations," police in four hours stopped 50 vehicles, found 33 cell phone violations, 15 seat belt violations, and impounded five cars driven by people with suspended licenses or no license at all.



They're hailing the sting operation as a huge success.

“During this detail, our undercover officers walked up to the windows of many vehicles unnoticed by the drivers that were either talking or texting on their cell phones," Police Chief Jarrod Burguan said in a press release.

In the past, police went undercover to bust major criminal operations, nowadays officers pose as homeless people to enforce petty traffic violations.

Not mentioned in their press release is the fact there's no evidence cell phone laws actually cause a decrease in accidents, in fact a slight increase in accidents occurred in the states where such laws were passed.

Nonetheless, don't let that get in the way of American police's new mission to eradicate all crime through stasi-style undercover policing.













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