Speed trap from private property???

[mojo84]

Our sheriff is a retired life long DPS trooper. He loves for his deputies to run radar and write tickets. Not a lot of other crime to fight here.

[Soccerdad1995]

If the speed limit is posted...and you are speeding...and just because you can't see the officer...how is that a trap?
Just because he's in a driveway doesn't make it a "trap." You not seeing him does not make it a "trap."
A "trap" is when the speed limit is hidden, distorted or concealed somehow and you are tricked into speeding...not when you get caught speeding in an area that is clearly and legally marked. Whether or not you saw the officer is irrelevant.

I define a "speed trap" as one where the posted speed limit makes no sense for a stretch of roadway, such as near my neighborhood where the speed limit is 30 on residential streets with houses and driveways everywhere and is 35 on certain stretches of a 4 lane, divided road that has zero houses or yards fronting the roadway (it's all walled off backyards).

A "speed trap" would also exist if there is a rapid change in speed limits down to an unreasonably low limit, such as some freeways that go through a small town where the speed limit changes from 75 to 35 in a few miles because there is a single stoplight intersection with a gas station and a restaurant, but again, no houses fronting the freeway.

In general, it would be any situation where enforcement of the speed limit is motivated by anything other than public safety.

[LeonCarr]

As a LEO every Chief or Sheriff I have ever worked for said when running traffic or radar on private property, always ask for permission first. Not only because it is the courteous thing to do, but also to get to know the citizens in your jurisdiction and to build a good rapport with them. That goes much further to stop crime than issuing a bunch of citations.

Just my .02,
LeonCarr

[puma guy]

Our sheriff is a retired life long DPS trooper. He loves for his deputies to run radar and write tickets. Not a lot of other crime to fight here.

Don't get too comfortable with the local constabulary. Bulverde has designs to take over the whole countryside up there.