Get Your Complete Impostor Kit for $99!

http://www.badgeworld.com/index.php?p=product&id=2194&parent=163

A member of our staff recently found this jaw dropping impostor kit. Included is a complete outfit made to look like something official along with badge and official looking ID.

Provided on the page is a mostly bogus advertisement saying people need this junk to be better citizens for their "duty to country." They reinforce this with various quotes from officials, statistics (some true, some stretched) and other fear tactics listed throughout the advertisement. We also viewed the infamous "CCW" badge being advertised through the site so our hopes are low for their concerns for impostors.

If you sit down and think about it you would realize no one would use this for the intended purpose. Kits like this give easy access to impostors to commit crimes with very little shopping for their equipment. Add that to the false advertising that gives a sense of power to anyone buying this stuff and you might have a problem.

Vigilante Impostors, a New Breed

Something we have been seeing very recently is vigilante impostors. These are the type that go out and impersonate law enforcement in the name of justice, or more likely they own justice. For the most part they are harmless but their very existence is to confuse the public into following the law. While there is a large following of people who think confusion is cool and harmless, we don’t see it that way and view it as unethical and wrong. Vigilante impostors take to the roads in retired police vehicles and illegal lighting and stop motorist that make them mad and warn them to be better. In the past few months we have seen more than a few different stories about older males performing these actions. The main reason for them to break the law was their opinion on their local law enforcement wasn’t doing enough. So they felt the need to go out and take matters into their own hands without any training or cooperation from the local law enforcement. The latest article we found on this phenomenon the alleged impostor even call the real police for backup on his cell phone and was caught this way.

So in essence, don’t go out and play cop when you aren’t asked to. On top of that don’t do it illegally using your own equipment. If you are unhappy with your local law enforcement, talk to them about it or even your local city/county government. Also see if your area has a neighborhood watch program or even a police auxiliary program. There are better ways to deal with personal disagreements on how the law is enforced other than impersonating and breaking the law to fight crime in your own way.

Jailer Playing Cop

A recent submission to our growing database of impostor stories comes from the great state of Iowa. It was reported by a few news sources that William Reese of Newhall was charged with impersonation of a police office along with other charges. Reese, a jailer, was accused of trying to stop a real sheriff’s deputy in a fully marked law enforcement vehicle and even chased the deputy to his residence. Then it is alleged Reese exited his vehicle and began to verbally harass and made threatening jesters. Reese was then arrested and it was said the whole video of the incident was captured by the cruiser camera Reese was driving.

This little story goes to show you possible impostors can form anywhere with any occupation. We can say we don’t have an actual solution on how to avoid this type of situation due to the vehicles being a real sheriff’s patrol vehicle. As always though, leave yourself and out and don’t be afraid to call 911 or the non-emergency communications number if something doesn’t seem right.

http://www.kcrg.com/news/local/45058612.html

http://gazetteonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090511/NEWS/705119933/1001/NEWS

Score one for the good guys.

A recent alleged impostor of sorts was banned from the popular lighting for “The Lightbarn”. Enforcement_Officer signed up and claimed to be on par with law enforcement from his very first posts and his profile occupation. Throughout his short span on TLB, he made several statements that others took as he thought he was a law enforcement officer. While this supposed string of claims went on, others took notice and began to question Mr. Enforcement_Officer.

With his whacker pride posted on Youtube in several videos, the dam broke and a TLB member called the possible impostor out in his own dedicated thread. While some defend the Enforcement_Officer, others joined in on questioning the motive of his actions. To prevent further issues, the thread was locked and shushed away to a hiding spot and the author was suspended due to his actions. The author is also an upstanding member of the policeposers.com forums. While Enforcement_Officer was flying under the radar on TLB to most users there, we were actively watching him along with many others like him who populate message forums and web sites possibly living a lie. If you know of any others like this person, we would be more than happy to hear about it.

Skywarn Emergency Lights - Storm Spotter Class Training

This video was brought to us by the creator. From the video description:

Chris Novy talks about the use of emergency lights for Skywarn storm spotters. This is from his presentation on March 14, 2009 at the National Storm Conference in Colleyville Texas. This is the best presentation I have seen so far on what to do and not to do when storm spotting, this is just a small segment. Probably the most important part the use of flashy lights on your vehicle.

The video is an interesting watch on what the true Skywarn members think of emergency lighting on spotter vehicles.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tjGJiRPCuE

New Security Satire Movie: Observe and Report

Another movie is going to hit the big screen soon, Observe and Report starring Seth Rogen. Like Paul Blart: Mall Cop, it will probably bring to the surface a few of the security stereotypes, both good and bad. We look forward to seeing this movie.

elightbars.org/policeposers.com sucks by kgowen4444

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YWotIwtWQo

This video was brought to our attention by one of our staff members. Basically this video was made by a person that goes by kgowen4444 or better yet, Kevin Gowen. He signed up on our forums awhile back and was moved to the restrictive group right away due to his background in amber light infatuation. He quickly signed up with a second account using false information to circumvent his previous restrictions. He was banned for doing this. His ride has been featured on Hamsexy.com and elightbars.org (now lightbarn.com) for it's amber/clear Vision light bar and it's wide collection of antennae.

Well, in response to this, Kevin supposedly created an account on Youtube.com under the user name "proudredneckwhacker" and posted the above video acting like a kid that was just grounded. While only elightbars.org was mentioned in the audio of the video, policeposers.com was mentioned in the video description. With the popularity increasing, Kevin removed the video from his alleged proudredneckwhacker account. Well, we saved a copy and now feature it above. Enjoy!