Jeremy Clarkson, host of Top Gear, once said "If you are a pedophile, the safest place for you to be is driving on the highway going 55mph and using your turn signal, and no one would ever bother you". It's the truth, unless the cops are actively looking for your vehicle, they have no reason to stop you if you are obeying all traffic laws, no matter how many people you just murdered and put in your freezer.

Now if you happen to be carrying a small child worth of marijuana in your trunk, your best bet is to heed the above guidelines. Of course, not everyone is that bright. With your 43 pounds of pot in your trunk, you can always do what this fellow did, and crash right into a state trooper. An unnamed 54 year old drove into a roadblock in I-95 in South Carolina. The roadblock was up to block traffic due to other car accidents from earlier in the day. So if you want your $150,000 of weed to be seized and have some serious felonies on your docket, please drive into a police car at 70 miles per hour.

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Bankrobber2007 at MySpace wants to be your friend, and the cops hope you already know him. After four bank robberies by this man in Arkansas, Fort Smith police set up this MySpace page in the hopes that someone will recognize him.

High quality images of the subject robbing a U.S. Bank branch on February are accompanied by anecdotal captions such as "I'm robbing the bank in Fort Smith here.... I'm so cool!!!". The page is written in first person from the subject's point of view. The background music playing on the page is "Citizens on Patrol" from the movie Police Academy.

This truly is a sign of the times; a wanted poster that used to just be posted on sign poles around town are now reachable but not just everyone in Arkansas, but the rest of the world. Hopefully such ingenious gum-shoe detective work will result in the rapid apprehension of this criminal.

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This is pretty funny because of how the guy tries to escape. I've seen this on TV and some other places and all they show is the cop chasing after this guy. I posted this whole video to show that some cops really do care and use their Police discretion on crimes to make things better in people's lives.
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I've previously mentioned that New York was the most polite city and now they've been named the safest big city for 2005. Crime in the Big Apple has dropped %17.7 since 2001!

When I visited, I felt pretty safe everywhere but Chinatown (everything was closed and it was quite dark!). Terrorism funding leading to increased police presence just about everywhere has definitely helped. The influx of upper middle class residents displacing some less desired housing possibly has helped too. Either way, NYC has come a long way from the seedy past of the 70s and 80s.

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If you fancy watching television news programs, you've probably already seen this. A Florida man was stopped for speeding and playing his 'music' loudly. According to the man, he was listing not to rap or rock 'n' roll, but Bill O'Reilly. The driver continues to berate the officer who just calmly listens and makes an occasional comment. Way to go Officer Friendly! Hooray for national media humiliation!
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