Per Raleigh Police: Speed enforcement is based on crash data and complaints. This is why officers are working radar in the 5000 blk of Six Forks Rd and why DWI enforcement activities are occurring in this area. As far as DWI checkpoints are concerned, they must be done in a specific way in order to comply with NC Laws. One of those requirements is that everyone that enters the checkpoint will be checked every time no matter how many times they enter the checkpoint. I will discuss with police supervisors responsible for planning these activities to see if it is possible to locate the checkpoints in areas that do not have disrupt citizens in their home trying to sleep during the evening and night time hours but understand this may not always be possible. As far as the lights, sirens and other noises mentioned in the SCF, these are all things that help keep the officers safe while protecting the citizens of this great community and no short cuts will be undertaken in this area.
The Raleigh Police Department strives to make the city as safe as possible through all its effort to reduce crime. Traffic related crashes are high in this area and several traffic fatalities have occurred. These crimes cause the police to increase and focus its efforts at convincing citizens that driving drunk in our city is not something that should be tried because RPD is working the streets and highways looking to make arrests.

Respectfully,

Capt. RL Munn
North District Commander
RPD CIT Coordinator

Capt, I still adamantly disagree with the practices of the RPD in its efforts to cite speeders if not only because they cause an unsafe situation when they take off from 0-mph and accelerate to 50-mph in the span of a hundred yards. It IS unsafe and it nearly touches the reckless driving stature as described in section NC § 20-140 (b) Any person who drives any vehicle upon a highway or any public vehicular area without due caution and circumspection and at a speed or in a manner so as to endanger or be likely to endanger any person or property shall be guilty of reckless driving.
Capt, you mention in your reply "As far as the lights, sirens and other noises mentioned in the SCF, these are all things that help keep the officers safe" and this would be true if they would a] utilize their sirens and b] incorporate their blue light(s) but they do neither until they get to speed, and getting to that speed constitutes them pulling out of the aforementioned parking lots at a breakneck pace, again losing traction of their tires and spinning for yards til that traction is regained.

Come down and take a look at the black marks on the pavement if you need some convincing.

If, while checking speeds using radar they encounter someone going over the allowed percentile, they do not in fact turn on their blue traffic bar until they are nearly closed in on the suspected speeder.
During the evening of the Super Bowl I watched repeatedly this very scenario over and over, multiple times per hour. If you need some video reference I'll be glad to provide you with some at a later date, such that I'll only have to wait til a weekend arrives and the whole process starts over again.
As a resident of this area for multiple years, I am well aware of the accidents on this section of the road. I am well aware of the child fatality that occurred last year on E Millbrook (during daylight hours I might add) and as you are well aware most of the accidents occur at North Hills Mall, and those north of the mall usually occur at the intersection of Shelley Rd @ Six Forks and Millbrook @ Six Forks.

If you really want to catch some speeders, come set up your traffic squad in front of Green Elementary (or Carroll Middle School) (I'd totally suggest Green Elementary though) as those people who commute daily down this corridor don't have a care in the world about your 25mph school zone. Such is the fact that I've even called into Wake Trans certain school bus numbers who have themselves just clipped along over the posted limit.
As far as DWI checkpoints are concerned (are they really constitutional? Seems unlikely that any entity has the right to impede upon the free actions of individuals when no evidence of a crime has been committed) (strike that last sentence, we're not here to argue politics and/or the stripping of constitutional law, and Im not here to bait you) but there is an entire area 200 yards south that is equally as capable of serving as a DWI checkpoint as the little strip of asphalt in front of my house, seeing as I am only one of two permanent residents in this 5000 block. And you are well aware that these DWI checkpoints are usually manned and operated til 2am? It would be different if it were not in someone's front yard and rather in front of oh, say Hudson Memorial Presbyterian Church where the road is nice and wide... But if you go too far south you again run into a sparse gathering of homes on the east side of the road. What if you went further south than these homes, say using the 4600 block of Six Forks? There's nothing down there but Carroll Middle School and some office buildings. Is it because DWI checkpoints usually work well in a bend in the road so that suspected drunk drivers dont see the bright lights and traffic cones and then turn off to elude such actions as entering a DWI checkpoint? I mean, if thats the argument for using this particular stretch of road, then the checkpoint is null and void for anyone heading South because you can see for nearly 3/5ths of a mile from E Millbrook all the way to Hudson Memorial Presbyterian Church and there are Plenty of streets to turn onto in avoidance of the checkpoint (Snelling, Shelley, Windel, or Crestview) as well as a shopping center and convenience store. Even coming North on Six Forks you have Northbrook, Cranbrook, Northwoods, and N Glen Dr.
I again am going to ask that this issue be reopened until someone speaks to these officers about their driving tactics. Do I dare mention that these are not even public parking lots but rather church property that the officers are clocking speeders from, something that I thought was illegal as its not public domain.

Positively,

William McEwen
5061 Six Forks Rd