That's Some Great Police Work There, Lou

Via The Newspaper, law-enforcement heroics from Missouri:

Just before 2:40am on June 5, twenty-two-year-old Vanessa Kimery passed through one of the state's many speed traps. An unmarked police cruiser pulled behind her vehicle and activated its lights. Kimery immediately put on her flashers and slowed to acknowledge the vehicle behind. She then drove less than a mile to the nearest well-lit area, a convenience store parking lot. For this, Kimery was ordered out of the car at gunpoint and surrounded by three police deputies. "Put your hands up where we can see them," a sheriff's deputy yelled. "Hands up. Hands up. Turn around. Keep your hands up."

Kimery was handcuffed and led by one deputy away from her vehicle so that the another could enter it to conduct a search. ... Kimery had feared that the unmarked car may have been driven by a police impersonator. Exactly one year ago, two women were attacked in Howell County by by a man driving a Ford Crown Victoria with red-and-blue lights mounted on the dash. Several other states have similar problems with robbers and rapists taking advantage of police use of unmarked cars to trap their victims on dark, rural roads.

Get raped by a fake cop, or get handcuffed and interrogated by three real ones. I wonder if Kimery learned her lesson — and what choice she'll make next time.

Comments

[benpal]

America - the land of the free

[Social Network Web Design]

They should secure the safety of every person especially the ladies.

[Mike]

The sheriff's department has five unmarked vehicles that occasionally are used to make traffic stops.
If your wondering what the police think she should have done its "If pulled over by an unmarked patrol car, Gibson advised a motorist to lock the vehicle doors, roll the driver's-side window down about an inch and ask for identification.

"If your suspicions aren't immediately resolved, ask the officer to follow you to the nearest well-lit area," Gibson said."

Yeah, that sheet of window glass is great protection in the middle of nowhere. Surely that will stop a thieves bullet right?

ref: http://www.news-leader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080607/NEWS01/806070373/1001/RSS01

[Michael Chaney]

The other thing to do in the modern world is to simply call the actual police on the phone and ask if you're being pulled over by one of their officers. That has the added benefit that if you're *not*, hopefully they can get somebody there.

[Kristin]

I agree with calling the actual police; however, don't you think by the time you call them and they figure out who is behind you, you would probably be 3/4 of a mile down the road... just like Vanessa Kimery was when she was held at gunpoint!