Waldo Florida Spped Trap
Waldo, Florida on US 301 is back in the news again because of their speed trap. They have been told that they must write so many speeding tickets in a 12 hours shift. They are being investigated agai...
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spoon059 wrote:
Enemy here... We use Lidar in my area, and a lot of departments are moving towards Lidar. Its vehicle specific (point at a specific car) as opposed to radar (just alerts to a vehicle speeding and the officer has to look up and determine which vehicle is going the fastest). The benefits are that I can testify that I aimed the laser directly at YOUR vehicle and tested YOUR speed.
The drawbacks for you are that the laser unit isn't continuously on. I watch traffic and wait until I see a vehicle that appears to be speeding. Then, and only then, I aim the laser at your vehicle and pull the trigger. The laser fires only as long as I hold the trigger. By the time you react to your laser detector, I've already got your speed and made a decision to pull you over or not.
I would suggest that if you want to continue your streak of no tickets you slow down. I don't have a radar or laser detector. I haven't been pulled over in 14 years... I just drive within reason most of the time.
Enemy out...
I had to laugh. I remember when I was still working and we got laser. I stopped a guy doing 25 over. After I stopped him, he was not at all happy with his high dollar detector he had just bought. I don't think he was happy with the ticket either. Just out of curiosity, one of our dispatchers had a detector so we borrowed it and ran two cars side by side with the detector in one. We clocked the other one and the detector never went off until we clocked the one with the detector in it. Of course we never had a quota (which is and should be illegal), we were allowed to write as many tickets as we wanted.
