Yeah, what is up with all the RAMPANTLY reckless tailgating recently?  I hardly ever saw that until just the last two or three years, and now it is utterly epidemic in and around Anchorage!  And the odd thing about it, at least to me, is that the large majority of those engaging in that reckless tailgating are women, NOT men.  

But even worse, I have many times not only seen the police blithely drive by other vehicles which were grossly and dangerous tailgating other drivers, only to have the cops pass them by as if nothing were amiss, I have seen cops themselves doing it as well in the last few years!  I even reported one state trooper (sans sirens or flashing lights) last year who was tailgating me so closely on the Seward Highway that I thought he was trying to actually hit me, only to have him then exit the highway behind me.  Why are so many people so suddenly engaging in this manner of reckless behavior?