Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site rruxo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!rruxo!hunt From: hunt@rruxo.UUCP (J Hunter) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: RADAR QUESTIONS (The use of...) Message-ID: <112@rruxo.UUCP> Date: Thu, 25-Oct-84 09:16:29 EDT Article-I.D.: rruxo.112 Posted: Thu Oct 25 09:16:29 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 26-Oct-84 09:11:27 EDT Distribution: net.auto Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway N.J. Lines: 26 [Yummmmmmmmmmmmmm................Yummmmmmmmmmm..............] 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? Didn't someone in California bring a suit against the Calif. Highway Patrol because they felt that radar consituted entrapment? They also challenged the frequency of calibration (because such devices are sometime known to clock trees at 100 mph) and the training of the officers using it. Is there anything WE can do about this?? This whole thing reminds me of the old "speed trap" pictures - the cop on the motorcycle sitting behind the billboard waiting............... A disgruntled and temporarily displaced California driver who's now in New Jersey..... Jacque Hunter - Bellcore, Inc. - Piscataway, New Jersey (The "Safe Driving" State....yukka, yukka....) rruxo!hunt