Palos Park Police Memorial Day Campaign Targets Aggressive Drivers

PALOS PARK, IL — Residents and motorists traveling through Palos Park can expect to see a heightened police presence on the road during the Memorial Day weekend.

From Thursday evening through Monday evening, May 25 to May 29, Palos Park officers will be patrolling our roadways in greater numbers and will conduct additional roving patrols for speed enforcement, as well as marked and unmarked, and other non-traditional, police vehicles for patrolling.

“We are going to be out and about doing a variety of different safety initiatives over the long holiday weekend,” said Chief Joe Miller of the Palos Park Police Department. “We're clearly seeing more aggressive driving, more speeding, and more carelessness on our roadways and that's very concerning to us."

Aggressive driving is one of the key factors in the crashes Palos Park police sees, anything from speeding to tailgating, to cutting off other motorists, officers will be enforcing speed laws.