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Man impersonated law enforcement, sought to investigate own crimes, police say

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Law enforcement impersonation is apparently, "a thing." To the point, where police talk about the phenomenon as something they expect to see in the course of a normal career.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6nQyuP0RU4

I had my own run in with a police impersonator in Texas. I was held up very early in the morning at gunpoint by a guy who came out of a white pickup truck. I had to explain to him that I needed to take my foot off the brake and lower my hands in order to shift into park, before I could get out of the car. His story, was that he was staking out the ATM because a number of robberies were happening there.

Later on, I told the story to a musician friend of mine who happened to be a judge, and he told me that wasn't a police officer. There were absolutely no unmarked pickup trucks being used by the police.

Some impersonators apparently go to great lengths to equip themselves, even to the point of building their own fake police cars.

> Law enforcement impersonation is apparently, “a thing.” To the point, where police talk about the phenomenon as something they expect to see in the course of a normal career.

To be fair, while law enforcement impersonation appears to actually be something of a thing, if that standard were applied consistently, physically-impossible spooky fentanyl action at a distance would also be “a thing”. Law enforcement expectations are often the result of heavy propagandization (often masquerading as professional training).

Can you elaborate? I haven't heard about quantum fentanyl

https://www.npr.org/2023/05/16/1175726650/fentanyl-police-ov...

If you get sucked into the bodycam footage that is all over youtube, you'll see that "police impersonator" is incredibly common. There are even people who impersonate federal agaents, and stone faced hold their story while the cops are grilling them. Wild

There is no typical police vehicle, every department and every unit can vary. Police can also travel in personal vehicles for work purposes, including investigations or surveillance.

TIL you can be an NASA agent:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okD-bvIK8tw

Thanks, Reddi--- Hackernews!

I like that the dude posted a video of himself being arrested as “FBI Arrested by Dumb Cops” where everyone blindly accepts that account as truth. So great.

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