Police Detectors
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US $194.97
Are radar detectors worth it or do most police use laser now?
Police departments use just whatever the department
can afford to get. The older radar units were on to
clock speeds all the time, and could not be turned
off, then back on to check a speed. Newer models of
all types can be turned off, then on to check the speed
of a particular traffic movement.
Radar, or laser will both only give you a very short
warning before your speed is recorded in the type
used. If you react suddenly enough you might be
able to have your speed show slower when it does
lock you. That may only give you a second or two
to have hit the brake. You must have been paying
a lot of attention to everything to react that quickly.
Now, a VASCAR unit doesn't send out any signal
at all to check your speed. Some departments will
use these units. Aircraft also use this method. That
is why you will find broad white lines drawn across
the roadway. But, even your speed can be computer
calculated with the distance between any two objects
such as telephone poles. These units are nothing
more than visual spotting, and speed computing.
There is no signal to warn you.
I have always preferred that motorists do have
detectors in their cars. My radar would then act to
warn them of their speed to make them slow down.
For a traffic police officer, it is very easy to write
tickets for speed violations. The real problem is in
slowing down those vehicles. An officer can get
caught up in overwork to write as many violations
as he can find. For my thinking, if I write two to
four per day in an eight hour shift, and have let
my radar slow down other traffic, I have done my
job well. It is not uncommon for an officer to only
write about ten tickets per week. Maybe with a
couple extra warnings per day.
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