Bothering the Police Chief of DC

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Police chief denounces ‘cowardly’ iPhone users monitoring speed traps
By: Hayley Peterson
DC Examiner Staff Writer
July 7, 2009

Area drivers looking to outwit police speed traps and traffic cameras are using an iPhone application and other global positioning system devices that pinpoint the location of the cameras.

That has irked D.C. police chief Cathy Lanier, who promised her officers would pick up their game to   counteract the devices, which can also help drivers dodge sobriety checkpoints.

“I think that’s the whole point of this program,” she told The Examiner. “It’s designed to circumvent law enforcement — law enforcement that is designed specifically to save lives.”

The new technology streams to i-Phones and global positioning system devices, sounding off an alarm as drivers approach speed or red-light cameras.

Lanier said the technology is a “cowardly tactic” and “people who overly rely on those and break the law anyway are going to get caught” in one way or another.

Read the rest, and thanks to Mark Fee, who also sends along these DC-chief bothering URLs: this and this and this.

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11:34 am on July 7, 2009