• 03
  • April
    2012

The next time you are driving and see a sign warning you of construction ahead, you might want to double check your seat belt. Police in North Carolina are setting up stings by posing as construction workers on many roads in order to catch people who are speeding, drunk drivers, people who are not wearing their seat belts, and many other traffic violations.

It may not seem fair to most drivers. Can police dress up as construction workers in order to spot law breakers? Unfortunately they can, according to one professor at Elon University School of Law. Just as police officers can go undercover to investigate a crime, they can also dress in construction or plain clothes to spot drivers breaking the law.