Originally Posted by
EricH
In past years, Virginia police would stake out major DC liquor stores (esp. at major holidays) and radio the license plates and descriptions of VA cars to VA police at the bridges into Virginia. I haven't heard any stories about this in a few years. Have they stopped?
I can't speak for Virginia, but I have heard of Pennsylvania state police doing the same at New Jersey stores across the Delaware River. The way I heard the story, though, they quit doing it when New Jersey police started ticketing the Pennsylvania cops for trespassing and loitering.