JPEG Justice: County cops use Wi-Fi, Web to catch truckers
CLACKAMAS COUNTY, Ore. — The sheriff of this 300,000-resident community in Oregon is using 21st century technology to spot one of the oldest traffic violations there is.
According to the Oregonian newspaper, Sgt. John Naccarato of the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office has a new weapon — a long-lens camera hooked up to Blutooth technology on a mobile Wi-Fi network — to catch truckers not wearing their seatbelts.
The EOS 1D Mark III camera is equipped with a missile-length lens and shoots 10 frames a second. Snapshots are immediately transmitted wirelessly via the Internet to pursuing deputies, who are ready with the $97 tickets.
Deputy Jodi Westerman told the paper that one of the first truckers caught this week "said nothing until he got out of the cab and looked at the photo. At that point he offered, ‘Yup, you got me.’"
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