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    Default How is Radar Affected by the Police Driving Speed

    This is for the state of Arizona:

    I am just getting slapped by a run of bad luck. Anyway so I have some record of the facts I thought I would post here.

    I was driving south on a 35mph street and saw a police car coming north toward me in the distance about 1/2 to 3/4 of a block. So because I had gotten a ticket recently I was checking my speed most of the time and every police car was standing out. So I look down and I’m going 38mph and while most cops would not cite for that I tap my brakes anyway and slow to under 35 just a tad.

    I'm heading south in the curb lane and h is heading north in the lane next to the center turn lane.

    He turns and come up behind me and light go on.

    He walks up and asks for the usual and I’m fuming wondering WTH could this be for????? I even asked: What is this about??/

    He leaves comes back. Ask do I know what this is about
    I respond umm that’s why I just asked you that no I don't.
    Officer: what’s the speed limit here on Campbell?
    me: 35.
    Officer: how fast where you going?
    me: 35 maybe a little over.
    Officer: well I had you clocked at 51.
    me: !51! there is no way I was going 51 I know I wasn’t.
    Officer: that’s what I had you clocked at.
    me: I was not going that fast I would have had to been flooring it and I know I wasn't.

    he walks away.

    He comes back starts the yadd yadda yadda so I cut in
    me: I'm sorry I was not going no 51.
    him: I’m not going to argue.
    me: do you have a dash cam?
    him: a what?
    me [ i think this is bs how can he not know what a freaking dash cam is] you know the camera on your car that record like on those video shows?
    him: no
    tit for tat some more he starts to leave I wave him down.
    me: do you still have the reading on the radar
    him: no, it doesn’t matter it is dash mounted
    leaves again
    I flag him one last time
    me: I want to ask you what direction you were going and stuff and record you on my cell phone camera.
    him: that’s what the hearing is for.
    me: so there is nothing on this paper saying anything about where or what you were doing and what we go to court and you can just say anything.
    him: If you think I’m lying you can contact internal affairs.
    me: you have their card.
    him: you can look it up and you have my name on the citation so unless you have an emergency I’m going to leave this scene.

    So sorry for the play by play but I want to print this for courts since apparently months later a police man is supposed to just remember where he was what he was doing and since he was driving toward me how fast he was going not that that has an effect which is the point of my post and questions:

    1. Can dash mounted guns which from the sounds of it are non removable be rotated or what is the cone of effectiveness and range?

    2. If a car is heading south at 38 and a police car is heading north at an unknown speed can a radar gun give an incorrect reading since both vehicles are heading toward each other?

    3. In regards to 1 what could this mean a radar tag on one car though the officer may be looking elsewhere?

    4. Oh and do they take or make notes on the copys they have? I mean if he comes into court and says I was sitting at the side of the road taging people as they went by and tagged this guy and I have a freak out so what I just look crazy and there is no notetation that has a record? I mean can they just come to court and say anything?

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