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From: hunt@rruxo.UUCP (J Hunter)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: RADAR QUESTIONS (The use of...)
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Date: Thu, 25-Oct-84 09:16:29 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 25 09:16:29 1984
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[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....)

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