This week's "Clever Cops" award goes to the Mayfield, OH constabulary . . . .

[Stinky The Clown]

MAYFIELD HEIGHTS-- Police in the Cleveland suburb of Mayfield Heights know they're not allowed to use checkpoints to search drivers and their cars for drugs.

So they're trying the next best thing: fake drug checkpoints.

Police recently posted large yellow signs along Interstate 271 that warned drivers that there was a drug checkpoint ahead.

There was no such checkpoint, just police officers waiting to see if any drivers would react suspiciously after seeing the signs.

The Plain Dealer in Cleveland reports that a civil rights group and at least one person pulled over by police are questioning the tactic.

A Mayfield Heights assistant prosecutor says it's legal and a legitimate effort in the war on drugs, saying that the city of 19,000 "should be applauded for doing this."

http://www.wkyc.com/news/article/304761/3/Mayfield-Hts-police-using-fake-drug-checkpoints

[arcane1]

1. The prison business needs more customers! This is just their version of product-placement.

[L0oniX]

2. Here's another one...

The Lakeland Police Department headquarters. At least 10 cops there had sex —some of it forced

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/florida-cops-caught-sex-scandal-article-1.1383107

[Fuddnik]

3. These geniuses again?

A kid I went to grade school with grew up to become a Mayfield Village cop (right next to Mayfield Hts). The Village cops were chasing a flasher one day when the Hts cops joined the chase. The Hts cops started shooting as they approached a roadblock, missed and killed the Village cop.

This was in 1979. The only article I could find online was a law enforcement site, that claimed the flasher reportedly shot at them. But, I don't recall anything like that back then. And the flasher was only charged with involuntary manslaughter, so that should tell you everything.

[think]

4. K&R.

[safeinOhio]

5. I remember when the Saline Michigan police

use to set police cars along Michigan Ave on MIS race days with a dummy in a uniform at the wheel. It was to slow drivers down. That was until one day someone set a box of Dunken Donuts on the roof.

[Dawson Leery]

6. Too many cops needed to justify their existence.