Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site teddy.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!genrad!teddy!slf From: slf@teddy.UUCP (Scott Fisher) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: RADAR QUESTIONS (The use of...) Message-ID: <822@teddy.UUCP> Date: Wed, 31-Oct-84 16:43:10 EST Article-I.D.: teddy.822 Posted: Wed Oct 31 16:43:10 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 2-Nov-84 04:38:29 EST References: <112@rruxo.UUCP> Distribution: net.auto Organization: GenRad, Inc., Concord, Mass. Lines: 9 > I'd like to read some discussion and/or comments on the use > of RADAR for "traffic control" (really, speeding tickets). > The police in New Jersey seem to use this as their main weapon(?) > for writing speeding tickets. In my opinion police are more > effective if they're VISIBLE, and present more of a deterrent to > eratic driving habits if they're on the street (not behind some > bush or sign). Is radar entrapment? ... The idea is to extort money, not slow down the traffic! :-) (?)