"Do me a favor and turn around for me. Hands behind your back. You are under arrest."

"Why?"

"Put your hands behind your back."

"What are you doing?"

"Relax."

"What are you doing to me?"

"Relax."

These are extracts are from video of Irving police arresting LeAnna Onstott of Fort Worth.

Her crime - the nose of her SUV had edged into the crosswalk and she failed to show proof of insurance.

A few minutes earlier, the same officer arrested Mikki Stokes of Irving, only after following her truck for 15 minutes.

It appears from car-to-car traffic, the officers were waiting for her to make a mistake.

"Dave, keep it as loose as you can until I can get down there, I'd like to see a violation," says one officer.

When officers see her stop at a convenience store they poise to arrest her for failure to stop at a sidewalk.

"All right, she's getting back in the truck."

"Well, hopefully she won't stop when she exits."

"I bet she won't make it before the sidewalk."

"I bet she won't either."

"Failed to stop!"

Both women filed internal affairs complaints against the officers.

In both cases, the officers were cleared.

According to Irving Police Chief Larry Boyd the arrests did not violate policy.

So how do Irving council members feel about the issue presented in two News 8 investigative reports?

Council Member Beth Van Duyne put us off.

Sam Smith calls our report one sided.

"I agree with having them pulled over for minor traffic violations," Smith said.

But what about them being arrested?

"I would not want to comment on that. I guess that would depend on how the conversation is going between the officer that pulled over the motorist and the motorist, the attitude," Smith said.

Mayor Pro-Tem Rick Stopfer turns the tables on News 8.

"To me when you are sensationalizing rather than dealing with the real issue. And that's my concern. I believe the police are doing an outstanding job," he said.

Stopfer says pro-active arrests like this has helped bring the Irving crime rate down 10 percent so far this year.

It's traffic court activity that may be on the rise.

E-mail bshipp@wfaa.com.