Posted on 08/07/2013 9:20:07 AM PDT by KeyLargo
Cop cardboard cutout used to cut crime at Massachusetts transportation hub
Published August 06, 2013
| Associated Press
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The burly officer watching over the bike racks at a Boston-area transportation hub is a real stiff.
As part of an effort to cut crime at the Alewife MBTA subway and bus station in Cambridge, transit police placed a cardboard cutout of a police officer in the bicycle cage. Hundreds of people use the racks daily.
Deputy Chief Robert Lenehan says the fake cop, along with video cameras and a new lock, has cut bike thefts by 67 percent.
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I wonder if the police union will demand pensions for the cardboard cops when they are retired, or will they just be thrown away with no regard on how their spouses and children will survive?
Please note that the statement above is SCARCASM.
LOL...good one!
My town uses a fake police car. It is a real car, but not functioning.
They park it different locations for a couple days then move it. Slows down the traffic every time.
Then we should use 20,000 of these scarecrows along the border!.......
After a few weeks it will no longer have any effect at all.
How about putting a security camera behind the eyes? Or RoboCop?
How about if female White joggers get one of these and take it with them when they run? Maybe that’ll keep the feral savages from attacking them.
Or the male White boys on bikes going through ghettos? That’ll scare off the feral subhumans.
They should sell those cut outs to private citizens... Amazon? Ebay? Come on, guy - great fund raiser....
In the '80s, I was sent down to Venezuela for a month. They had five levels of police, ranging from full para-military types down to those in a brown uniform. The latter stood by the road waving automobiles over for some (mostly imagined) traffic infraction. If you stopped, you paid an "instant fine". If you didn't, shrug, they waved at the next guy. We were told to adopt the 1,000 yard stare when driving past them.
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