Got Radar?

True 'jammers' are not legal. It is a transmitter and must be licensed by the FCC.

Awhile back there was some success with photo radars. Some of the guys were attaching a small slave flash unit near the license plate...

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My best method for avoiding spendy tickets was the bigger tires and the re-gear. I pretty much max out at 80 and 75 is the fastest that i would want to run it for extended periods. 90% of the highways around here are 65MPH and the average traffic flows at around 75-90 gota love massholes

 

Wow, lots of good stuff here guys, Thanks for all of the info!

 

cops dont get tickets...

you get shit on 40+ hrs a week by everyone, and do it for short money, there has to be SOME perks to the job. sorry.

 

Lol, you should see my job. Atleast they can carry a gun!!!

 

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Psht.. I wish that were true. I've been pulled over twice in 13 years for speeding, and both times I received a ticket. Once, I was IN MY CRUISER, coming home from the Academy. Second time was from a State Trooper that lived three houses down from me. Paid them both because I was in fact speeding.

 

A lot of people have crappy jobs and still obey the law. 65 in a 45 near a school and he gets off? Sorry, but knowingly breaking the law because you can doesn't make it right.

 

Hey if you work at Burger King you get a discount on your lunch ......do you think that is unfair also. It's professional courtesy.If that cop is rolling around on the side of the road with some scumbag it most likely will be the off duty cop that stops to help him.

 

A cop pulled over in his cruiser. That's kinda funny. LOL maybe the other cop thought you should know better?

I've had bizarre encounters with cops, but on simple speeding tickets I have driven away with warnings as often as tickets. I kinda think of a speeding ticket as a licensing fee.

 

Could be because the vast majority of police you see on cop shows say they would rather you not get involved because then they have to protect you and themselves. I've never heard a cop say they'd rather some random citizen stepped into a fight. Maybe an Army guy or another cop, but that's about it.

 

Not sure what lunch has to do with law, but the repected Po's I know try to set a good example and expect it out of their officers. Breaking the law the same as a lunch discount? WOW!

 

No way...That can't happen. Everything is always exactally like on TV...

 

I don't mean CSI or something like that. I mean reality-oriented ones where they actually interview real officers.

Wow. Thanks for assuming I can't figure out that distinction?

 

I don't think he assumed that at all.

There are something like 800,000 cops/federal LEOs in the US. You've seen maybe 100 on cops shows-That is a sample size of .0125% of the total.

Basing a decision off of a television show (no matter how factual) is not a good policy. Between bias of the show creators, editing, and general made for TV BS...You aren't getting the whole picture.

 

this is how i am. sometimes i just don't realize my speed drifted up to 5 or 8 over. it'll go off and make me slow down. i don't even mind the false alarms. they slow me down too. but i'm much so much more of a chill driver now that i'm 29 than when i was 21. i was young and invincible then. ha.

 

Well I think it's assumed you aren't getting the whole picture on TV but it's like that every time you see an officer on the news telling the media much of anything.

"this high speed chase didn't go well because we had some yahoo trying to help us by blocking the guy in. He's lucky he wasn't killed."

"This guy wrestled the perp to the ground, turned out the perp had a knife. That's why the public should let *us* do our work."

Etc.

So... I guess the news media has some sort of agenda in cutting out the part of the interview where they said, "Oh hell what are we saying? Everybody jump on the guy!"

Also... Where do you guys live that you see people wrestling with the cops constantly and stop to help? Good lord, I'm staying out of your neighborhoods.

 

Case and point speeding cruiser creates a wreck. They were racing
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d63_1258554864

 

I never said that I lived anywhere that cops are constantly wrestling anyone...so if you want to bemoan bad assumptions...you shouldn't make them.

As far as interviews go-I've seen plenty and don't remember hearing the lines you are saying happen "every time". And there may not be a blatant flip-flop but I've seen interviews I've given where what I said to the reporter was different than what got written/shown because of parts omitted or put out of sequence.

So yeah- Getting involved in EVERY situtation with the cops isn't a good idea- but the times when you should are pretty obvious. High speed chase- Bad idea unless you are trained to drive that way (aka-a cop.) A cop that is getting bested in a fist fight-Probably needs whatever help he can get ASAP.