In my new travels up and down Rt. 4, I've noticed a lot of police presence up above Huntingtown. This isn't a bad thing IMO. However, on two separate mornings this week, I've seen the same type of behavior by police that I thought was quite off putting.
This morning, I am cruising up Rt. 4 north (around 530AM) and in my rearview I see two sets of flashing blue lights well behind me. Being in the right lane, I use my signal to indicate I am going to the shoulder (of course there isn't one) but I start to slow and pull off as much as I can to give them room to pass. Just as quickly I notice the lights are off. Odd I think but it happens.
Being that most people have moved to the right, one of the Calvert police SUV's comes flying by me quite fast. I won't speculate as I was going slower than normal/travel speed and they were obviously faster than me. A bit behind the first SUV was the second with a good bit of distance between them. As they travel up the left hand lane with blue lights off, a passenger car changes lanes from the right hand lane to the left basically getting between Cop #1 and Cop #2.
Cop #2 (who is travelling a good bit faster than the traffic on the right) flies up onto the bumper of the car and high beams them for several seconds until the car more or less panics back into the right hand lane.
Now, I get it. Sometimes they intentionally keep their blue lights off but most can flash them where they aren't seen up front but are viewable from behind. I thought maybe they were trying to "sneak" up on someone but both ultimately had pulled over into a median not too much further ahead.
I just thought it odd behavior as had it been a passenger car operating in that manner, he/she would've been called all kinds of names. Seen something similar twice this week.
This morning, I am cruising up Rt. 4 north (around 530AM) and in my rearview I see two sets of flashing blue lights well behind me. Being in the right lane, I use my signal to indicate I am going to the shoulder (of course there isn't one) but I start to slow and pull off as much as I can to give them room to pass. Just as quickly I notice the lights are off. Odd I think but it happens.
Being that most people have moved to the right, one of the Calvert police SUV's comes flying by me quite fast. I won't speculate as I was going slower than normal/travel speed and they were obviously faster than me. A bit behind the first SUV was the second with a good bit of distance between them. As they travel up the left hand lane with blue lights off, a passenger car changes lanes from the right hand lane to the left basically getting between Cop #1 and Cop #2.
Cop #2 (who is travelling a good bit faster than the traffic on the right) flies up onto the bumper of the car and high beams them for several seconds until the car more or less panics back into the right hand lane.
Now, I get it. Sometimes they intentionally keep their blue lights off but most can flash them where they aren't seen up front but are viewable from behind. I thought maybe they were trying to "sneak" up on someone but both ultimately had pulled over into a median not too much further ahead.
I just thought it odd behavior as had it been a passenger car operating in that manner, he/she would've been called all kinds of names. Seen something similar twice this week.