I have mixed feelings about this:
CARMEL, Ind. -- She could be home preparing dinner or planting flowers, but Ruth Stahly is spending the afternoon clocking speeders.Armed with a police-issued radar gun, she watches as a four-door Honda heads in her direction on Adios Pass. The speed limit here is 25 mph, but a lot of drivers ignore it."Thirty-one. Thirty-two. Thirty-three," Stahly says, announcing the gun's digital readout as the Honda approaches."I need to stand here to get the plate," says Beth Heck, her partner in community policing.Stahly and Heck -- stay-at-home moms and part-time community activists -- are recruits in a growing campaign against that ever-constant source of anxiety in America's suburbs: the speeding neighbor.
On the one hand, it's risky giving police powers to civilians. On the other hand, I wouldn't mind having one of those radar guns so I could nail some of those maniacs who come barrelling off the Bluffton Road Bridge and down my street at 60 miles an hour.
