15+ IMPD/ISP on north side of 465?

[drillsgt]

I drive 65 on the interstate and still get passed.

And the officers were working a grant-paid detail so they weren't taking away from manpower.

Grant money doesn't magically create more people, either they're working traffic or doing real work.

 

[drillsgt]

What? No one up in arms at all the Staties that were on 37 between Bloomington and Martintucky yesterday? And between Crane and Bloomington?

Thats nothing new for 37 it's always like that.

 

[Tactically Fat]

Thats nothing new for 37 it's always like that.

I've driven 37 quite a bit for work since 2001. I've NEVER seen as many LEO out as I did yesterday. Granted, they were mostly all in the construction zones.

 

[rw02kr43]

I thought we had to speed to avoid breaking the law now?

 

[CHCRandy]

Who pays for the police escorts these semis have down US 36? I have been seeing state police running escort for these guys all summer, hauling bridge parts or wind mill parts.....not sure what they are but they are big. Do the contractors have to reimburse the taxpayer for this service?

 

[Bigtanker]

Who pays for the police escorts these semis have down US 36? I have been seeing state police running escort for these guys all summer, hauling bridge parts or wind mill parts.....not sure what they are but they are big. Do the contractors have to reimburse the taxpayer for this service?

Whoever is paying to ship the load. These big things need special oversize permits. They aren't cheap and they require a police escort.

The exception is the wind farm parts. Since it's guberment funded, we are footing the bill.

 

[Frank_N_Stein]

Grant money doesn't magically create more people, either they're working traffic or doing real work.

Grant money pays off-duty officers to work specific enforcement areas. It doesn't take away from "real work" manpower.

 

[femurphy77]

Donut truck overturn????

Epic curbstomp preparation meeting.

I was in Longs Donuts one morning behind one of your brethren of the motorcycle variety. I couldn't help myself there either and whispered to him that he wasn't helping the stereotype (as if he hadn't heard that 100 times before). Anyway we get to talking and he said he stopped in one morning and some 300 + pound chick comes waddling up behind him and she immediately loudly proclaims "Oh I see it's true what they say about cops and donuts", his response was "Oh I seen it's true what they say about fat chicks and donuts"! Fortunately I wasn't drinking or eating anything or I'd have probably spit it out all over the floor. He said he didn't even get a call from the commander on that one and he figured he would!

 

[CHCRandy]

Whoever is paying to ship the load. These big things need special oversize permits. They aren't cheap and they require a police escort.

The exception is the wind farm parts. Since it's guberment funded, we are footing the bill.

I had often wondered about that. Last time they came by there was a bunch of them. Pretty sure it was a windmill part. Now why is it that police do the escort instead of pilot cars and trucks? Do people just not pay attention to pilot cars like they do police cars?

We have a huge grinder we ship to Detroit from time to time......I know that driver has spent days sitting on the side of the road at the Michigan border waiting for them to allow him to go on to Detroit.

 

[jbombelli]

I found out what was going on.

They heard I was driving through the area and knew they needed at least that many cars if they wanted to pull ME over.

 

[deanald2pt0]

When I went through at 6:00pm I counted 24 cars. Of course, easbound traffic was backed up all the way to 865, so I can't imagine they got to many speeding tickets in the crawling traffic. I did see several big rigs pulled over for what I can only assume was being in the left lane, which they probably got stuck in coming for 865.

Traveling back through at 9:45 I saw that they had more speeders pulled over, but traffic was still moving slow through the area.

 

[VUPDblue]

I had often wondered about that. Last time they came by there was a bunch of them. Pretty sure it was a windmill part. Now why is it that police do the escort instead of pilot cars and trucks? Do people just not pay attention to pilot cars like they do police cars?

We have a huge grinder we ship to Detroit from time to time......I know that driver has spent days sitting on the side of the road at the Michigan border waiting for them to allow him to go on to Detroit.

They require police instead of pilot cars because those huge loads require more than one lane, sometimes ALL lanes, of the roadway and pilot cars don't have the ability to require other vehicles give them room.

 

[femurphy77]

I found out what was going on.

They heard I was driving through the area and knew they needed at least that many cars if they wanted to pull ME over.

 

[drillsgt]

Grant money pays off-duty officers to work specific enforcement areas. It doesn't take away from "real work" manpower.

Just because there's grant money doesn't mean anybody has to use it. The only ones benefitting from this are the off duty cops lining their pockets. The day after this is over it'll be business as usual on 465. How about a grant to work off duty on the weekends in some of the higher crime areas around Indy not pulling over some joker going 10 over on 465.

 

[DRob]

I love these Monday-morning-QB threads. And, they're always about LE work!

When do the public safety guys get to tell auto-workers how to do their jobs?

 

[drillsgt]

I love these Monday-morning-QB threads. And, they're always about LE work!

When do the public safety guys get to tell auto-workers how to do their jobs?

It's a free country, if auto workers are wasting money on some silliness feel free to call them out on it.

 

[jbombelli]

I love these Monday-morning-QB threads. And, they're always about LE work!

When do the public safety guys get to tell auto-workers how to do their jobs?

Screw up a brake job on a police car and see if they don't start telling you how to do your job.

 

[Frank_N_Stein]

Just because there's grant money doesn't mean anybody has to use it. The only ones benefitting from this are the off duty cops lining their pockets. The day after this is over it'll be business as usual on 465. How about a grant to work off duty on the weekends in some of the higher crime areas around Indy not pulling over some joker going 10 over on 465.

Boo ****ing hoo. With you cops are damned if they do, damned if they don't.

 

[Bigtanker]

Just found out from a classified source the boner drone crashed and the Leo's were sent to retrieve it.

 

[RobbyMaQ]

How do I get a gig lining my pockets? Sounds like easy work!