Meet The Armadillo
The Armadillo is the opposite of an undercover operation. Its goal isn't making arrests, but alerting suspects that police are on to them, police say. The surveillance footage is rarely reviewed by the police and is saved for just a short time before it is erased. Still, the unit can have a significant impact.
So effective is it that the police have a four-week waiting period of requests by folks who want it parked in the neighborhood.
However, I wish the author of this piece had left out that one sentence: "The surveillance footage is rarely reviewed by the police and is saved for just a short time before it is erased." Any of the bad guys reading that will assume they can just carry on as if The Armadillo weren't there. In short, the author provides information that will harm the effectiveness of the program.
(h/t to Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit)
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