Court Tossing Challenged Speeding Tickets Over Faulty Radar Guns

Chicago Sun-Times:

It was with some fanfare that the Chicago Police Department announced three years ago that all city police districts were being supplied with high-tech LIDAR speed detectors to help crack down on speeders on neighborhood streets.

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Comments

[zombywulf]

It's too easy to set up these devices to be nothing more than revenue enhancement tools, they should all be banned.

[jsgaetano]

One of the many problems with these cameras is, in the interests of generating MORE tickets, they lower the time of the yellow light.

So tickets go up... and safety goes way down.

[seedoubleyou]

Those cameras CAN help slow light crashers but in my town, there's at least two intersection where the thing just seems to go off all the time, even when there's no cars driving through the intersection.