[Rick Lee]

There was a cop in DC a few years ago who got so fed up with people speeding in front of his house, that he used to run radar from his front yard while off duty. Cops, of course, speed with impunity. This guy, while in uniform (I think he had just gotten home) caught another cop doing about twice the speed limit without lights on, stepped into the road to flag him down and the other cop blew past him. He got in his patrol car and followed the other cop with lights on all the way back to the precinct to complain to his watch commander. Of course, nothing happened. But it made the Wash. Post, so people became aware of it. This combined with the Houston story really gives me no confidence that cops are trying to make the roads safer. The last time I got busted, the cop even told me, "You're from out of state, the state is broke, it's a holiday weekend and, well, I got you." I thanked him for his candor. And then he told me how to get it knocked down to a parking ticket so as to beat the points. Total tax collector.