A Former Police Motorcycle Officer Explains: Why Do Traffic Police 'Hide' While Enforcing? The Real Reason

An article where a former traffic-patrol officer talks is valuable for hearing this kind of inside story.

Just knowing you might be watched from hiding naturally has the effect of keeping you sharp.

Would love to see this compared against how traffic enforcement thinking differs overseas.

Would like to know the actual criteria for choosing hiding spots and the concrete operating rules.

I get the official line, but in practice isn't there also a side where citation numbers get treated like a quota?

Glad they actually spell it out clearly that the point isn't citations themselves but accident prevention.