Police Vehicles: Arlington County, Virginia

07 April 1996 | Arlington County (Virginia) Police Department | Ford Crown Victoria

Fuji Fujifilm Fujicolor Super G Plus 800


My holiday message for 1996 described my observation of this cruiser with an IR-scanner atop its roof, and identified one law enforcement purpose which was not mentioned in the article describing the scanner-equipped cruisers in the Weekly section of the Post: searching for the heat lamps used to grow marijuana. My holiday message for 2001 referred to a Supreme Court decision in June that year [Danny Lee Kyllo v. United States (99-8508) 533 U.S. 27 (2001)] which found this purpose to be a violation of the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Last updated on: 13-Aug-2008