The Metropolitan Police Department is trumpeting new statistics showing that rates of aggressive speeding continue to drop. And the department credits its mobile and stationary radar units deployed across the city.

In September 2001, about 113,000 cars were monitored. 21 percent were found to be aggressively speeding. This past September, nearly 1.3 million cars were monitored, but only 4.2 percent were found to be aggressively speeding.

Since the program's start, 1.1 million letters of infraction have been mailed out and $60.2 million in fines has been collected.