Street beat

Washington Monthly, July-August, 2003

Police departments faced with shrinking budgets may want to borrow a page from their colleagues in Kissimmee, Fla., who recently hunched "Operation Vagrant--a sting in which police officers disguised as homeless people ensnare speeders. Officers wear fake teeth, tattered clothes, and push shopping carts, but mean no "disrespect," says the local sheriff.

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