Cops In This Kid-Magnet U.S. City Are The Worst Speeders In Town

David Kiley
AOL
October 31, 2012

The investigative news team at WKMG-TV in Orlando received tips that there were habitual speeders in the area, sometimes going in excess of 100 miles-per-hour, apparently getting off scott-free. Turns out there was a reason they weren’t being ticketed oct prosecuted: they were off-duty police.

The investigators tracked suspected speeding cops heading to work, or leaving work to off-duty part-time jobs. After measuring the exact time it took law enforcers to travel the distances between toll plazas in July, Local 6 mapped those distances and created a computer database to isolate the most frequent and fastest speeders in police vehicles.

The results: Fourteen Orlando police vehicle not responding to a call were clocked at between 90 mph and 115 mph 37 times. Additionally, sixteen Orange County sherrif’s deputies–also not being dispatched to a call–were driving between 90 and 109 mph some forty times that month.

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This article was posted: Wednesday, October 31, 2012 at 3:23 pm

Tags: police state

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