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Re: Unmarked police cars a no-no in Ohio.



KA5461A@american.edu (Kelly Aleksiejuk) wrote:

>I live on the border of New York and Canada.  Canada is a very fast paced 
>country when it comes to traveling down the QEW.  Speeds ranging from a 
>60 to 80 are the norm.  There police do not have marked cars to catch the 
>speeders.  Actually, you do not even know that you have been caught until 
>you receive the ticket in the mail.  In Canada, there are special police 
>vans that roam the major thruway and take a picture of the license plate 
>of the speeder.  The ticket is sent through the mail to the law breaker 
>without having to pull the law breaker over.  
>



They bounced photo radar out of Ontario in June.  The OPP hated it, as 
did the general population.


>In Canada, they are not worrying about the cop behind the post taking 
>radar: it might be the person in front of, behind, or on the side in an 
>unmarked police car.  Who knows, the new wave of stopping speeding may be 
>coming here soon!
>
>Kelly Aleksiejuk  
>

Photo radar goes back to the 50's.  It's been tried here, but hasn't met 
political or common-sense success because it is so indiscriminate.  It 
catches the mayor speeding but avoids the drunks.  It doesn't let you 
know what you were doing is wrong on the spot; you find out a few 
days/weeks later after you've forgotten the incident.  (Most people 
feel that if they're going with the flow, they're at the speed limit.  
Unfortunately it's not true, but it should be.)  It's nothing more than a 
cash-harvesting machine, and the then-new Premier of Ontario said as much 
when he put photo radar out of business there.

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