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<p>Arming local cops with radar guns, should be voted down.</p><p>Despite 30 years of technological innovations, radar still suffers from the same reliability and performance issues that have made it unacceptable as evidence in a court of law. A research study states that radar cannot meet the requirements of the Daubert test, which is a set of standards trial judges use to determine whether or not expert testimony is based on valid scientific reasoning and methodology.</p><p>One of radar&#8217;s biggest downfalls: it can&#8217;t distinguish one vehicle from another.</p><p>Overall, the study further supports the conclusion that radar speed measurement is unreliable, easily misused and often abused for revenue purposes. Radar speed enforcement encourages policing for profit.</p><p>But the state House and Senate Transportation Committees want to give radar to local cops statewide.</p><p>There is no speeding problem in the state, since only 3 to 5 percent of fatalities are caused by excessive speed, but there is a problem of highway engineering malpractice by local politicians who set speed limits too low to make it easy to write tickets to raise revenue, turning the police into tax collectors.</p><p>Traffic laws fairly written and reasonably enforced is a foreign concept to officials like the Transportation Committee members.</p><p>Radar cheerleaders can use all the flowery language they want, saying that it isn&#8217;t for the money and we will be protected from abuse, but it is well established in Pennsylvania that SB 251 is for the express purpose to keep a stream of drivers&#8217; cash flowing into government.</p><p>SB 251 should be voted down.</p><p><strong>Tom McCarey</strong></p><p>Member, National Motorists Association</p><style>
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Your view: Don’t allow local police to use radar