To the editor:

At 7 p.m. on March 26, I drove by a Lawrence police officer hiding behind a tree on the 1900 block of Massachusetts. He had a radar gun pointed at traffic. He was standing in the modified universal shooting position (classic FBI stance). I could not tell he was a police officer and thought I was having a gun aimed at me.

Apparently other drivers thought the same thing and we all almost crashed when three people swerved and speeded up drastically.

With the national political strife where members of Congress are being shot at on my mind, I cannot help but think that this tactic is irrational and dangerous. If anyone else was pointing a gun-like object on traffic hiding behind a tree, they would be arrested and recommended for psychiatric evaluation. The police officers that came up with the idea of pointing a fake gun at traffic at the tail end of rush hour should be ashamed.