Entrapment Law ?

[Swimmer]

What MikeP said is comletely accurate. And to say police are running radar to generate revenue is inaccuate. At least the money comes back to the town where the officer risks his butt and just doesn't end up in state coffers. In Massachusetts there is only one town in which the money generated by fines as a result of a citation is returned directly to the police department. All other fines go directly to that towns general fund.

I can tell you somedays you can hide and no one drives fast by you and other days you can sit out in the open and you get writers cramp.

[stripersnipr]

Originally Posted by Swimmer

What MikeP said is comletely accurate. And to say police are running radar to generate revenue is inaccuate. At least the money comes back to the town where the officer risks his butt and just doesn't end up in state coffers. In Massachusetts there is only one town in which the money generated by fines as a result of a ciattion is returned directly to the police department. All other fines go directly to that towns general fund.

I can tell you somedays you can hide and no one drives fats by you and other days you can sit out in the open and you get writers cramp.

I wasn't infering police were supplementing their incomes with speeding fines, but all fines generate revenue for somebody, either the Feds/States/ or Towns. I know individual officers are not driven by revenue enhancement but you can be sure somewhere in the fiscal chain someone is anticipating a certain Traffic Fine dollar amount as a projected revenue line item on next years budget. Besides that how do you think the "designated speed trap" idea would effect speeding in general?

[Mike P]

Let's face it guys--in most parts of the Northeast, if you're traveling on an Interstate, you have to be going a good 10+ over the limit to even get pulled over. In NY, the State Police won't pull you over unless you're doing 15 over. One female Trooper told my wife "Just keep it under 70 sweetie and you'll be fine". In 55 mph zones, their motto is "69 is fine"

Let's say you're sitting in your computer room and you respond to an e-mail from some strange female. You start a correspondance with this "girl" who tells you she's 14, when in reality it's a male FBI agent or detective doing a pedophile sting. The correspondance gets more and more heated over the next few weeks, and you make arrangements to meet with her. When you keep the date, there's an army of cops there to slap the cuffs on you. If that's not entrapment--and take my word for it that it's not since you're going to have a hell of a hard time arguing no "predisposition"--what makes you think that hiding a cruiser behind a bridge abutment is entrapment?

There's a big difference between dirty pool and entrapment, from a legal standpoint And in my mind, anything that flushes out a guy who'd want to screw a 14 year old he met on the internet isn't even dirty pool.

[stripersnipr]

Originally Posted by Mike P

There's a big difference between dirty pool and entrapment, from a legal standpoint And in my mind, anything that flushes out a guy who'd want to screw a 14 year old he met on the internet isn't even dirty pool.

Hopefully we all agree on that. The ones that I find questionable are the Televised stings where a Female Cop walks the street in her best do-me outfit and some poor sucker ends up busted for solicitation.

[Pete_G]

Around here they completely hide the crusier in the woods and then hide behind a telephone pole, rock wall, or something else before jumping out at the last moment.

I nearly drove off the road the first time one of them jumped out pointing the radar gun at me.