home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!decwrl!sun-barr!west.West.Sun.COM!news2me.ebay.sun.com!exodus.Eng.Sun.COM!regenmeister!chrisp
- From: chrisp@regenmeister.Sun.COM (Chris Prael)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos
- Subject: Re: unmarked cop cars
- Date: 28 Jul 1992 16:59:46 GMT
- Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc., Mountain View, CA
- Lines: 32
- Message-ID: <l7av82INNk4@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
- References: <152oieINN9i@agate.berkeley.edu>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: regenmeister
-
- From article <152oieINN9i@agate.berkeley.edu>, by shyguy@ocf.berkeley.edu (David S. Shy):
- > There has been many postings concerning unmarked cop cars. I thought
- > the law says that all police cars must be clearly marked on the
- > outside so that they can be spotted. (Please don't flame me if this
- > sounds ignorant for this is what I thought the way things worked.)
-
- It doesn't sound ignorant at all. What the law actually says is that to
- be used in a traffic stop a cop car must be clearly marked as one (I'm
- pretty sure that there is a definition of what clearly marked means) and
- must be painted in a scheme that has been approved by (some state
- official).
-
- The big change in California is that that state official is approving
- any paint scheme the cops want to put on a car.
-
- > It appears that the government is doing as much as it can to catch
- > people who speeds. Just the other day, my friend got caught by photo-
- > radar in Southern California. Was slammed with $50+ for being 10 MPH
- > over in a 30 MPH area....
-
- The state courts have been throwing photo radar citations out pretty
- regularly. State law requires that a DRIVER be cited for a traffic
- infraction. So, state law does not permit the citation of a vehicle or
- its owner for a traffic infraction. A photo radar citation delivered
- through the mail is invalid on its face.
-
- As to doing what ever they can to nail speeders? Sure they are.
- Speeders have been a great source of fine revenue for 80 years now. It
- makes no difference to government that what they are doing has no
- positive effect on safety.
-
- Chris Prael
-