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Liar = Lidar I'm guessing?

puma guy wrote:DPS and most PD are mainly about catching speeders. Public Safety has been relegated to giving speeding tickets.

Stats??? I work at a dept of over 130 and, exactly 5 people are traffic units. They are tasked with traffic enforcement, serious accident investigation, and other duties like ops working people passing school busses. Maybe one or two people on each patrol shift work a lot of traffic enforcement, as time allows, and there are many other stops besides speed. I haven't touched a radar in 6 months more than twice.

puma guy wrote:All the PD and DPS are stationary trying to catch speeders

Or...the equipment violations which you mention in the bottom, and I'll add: window tint, stickers, LP violations, awkwardly weighted vehicles, CVE violations, and many, many others. Possibly waiting to intercept a BOLO'd vehicle.

puma guy wrote:That severely reduces their abilty to catch idiot, aggressive, unsafe drivers.

False, parking and watching on a busy roadway, intersection, increases your ability to observe violations. You're less distracted, and have many vehicles to observe.

puma guy wrote:no one stops the vehicles with blinding aftermarket HID head lights and driving lights, blue head lights and running lights, the yellow and pink headlights, and smoked out tail lights and blacked out windows because they're sitting on the sideline watching for the radar and lidar to light up and ding!.

Also false - my traffic unit buddies make these stops all the time. The HID lights are tricky because it is hard to prove, only a certain color range is allowed under federal law, and state law doesn't speak to it, other than saying lighting must follow federal requirements. Color meters are not readily available...

puma guy wrote:I know this will be a cause for some consternation among some here ...

Not from me, but I'm not really making hyperbolic statements.

Speeding has been proven time and time again to not only increase the likelihood of a collision, but also the severity. It is also against the law. Equipment violations make for better dope and DWI arrests, which is why I favor them, but speed enforcement has its place.

Heartland Patriot wrote:THOSE are the kinds of folks I'd like to see pulled over, not someone who's going a few miles over the limit in a safe manner.

THOSE kinds of people think that we should be out catching drunks or murderers or some other type of "more serious crime."

Speeding and getting caught is like eating unhealthy food your whole life and having health issues...it's great until you get caught.

I doubt the LEO inflated your ticket. It is possible, but I can't think for a single motivation. My families well being > My city earning a few more bucks on a ticket.

If you go to court make sure you say "but you're honor, I was not going 76 only 72". JK - tickets aren't fun. Are you eligible for deferred or DDC?

Was it RADAR or LIDAR? Did you ask to see the display? Our policy says that if it is safe and we have it locked in, we should show the violator his/her speed.