Ghost Striping Patrol Vehicles: Good or Bad Idea?

摘要

The driving public has become quite adept at either recognizing law enforcement patrol vehicles or detecting enforcement activities in such an efficient manner that they can selectively obey the law. Drivers who disobey traffic laws aren't anything new. Drivers who plan to break the traffic laws, develop strategies and equip themselves to get away with it—now that's a growing trend. To offset this challenge, law enforcement has had to adapt as well. Two of the largest challenges in this arena are the fact that most law enforcement agencies buy on fleet contracts, so many of the vehicles are the same make and model and the fact that the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA) required front to rear reflective markings as part of the accreditation standard. The second "standard" became so integrated into patrol vehicle design that one media outlet created and published its own requirements as standards for marking a patrol vehicle. Many readers misunderstood and took those published standards to represent some type of requirements for accreditation, legal compliance or other control that mandated such markings.