Typical police state tactics getting neighbors to turn on their own neighbors to do the police work for them .Over such stupid thing as speeding. If speed is a factor in an accident then ok fine the guilty person. But most speed laws are just to hastle motorists and get money. If people can drive safely at 70 mph.Then they should be allowed to.
I have found except for 29 and 40 during rush hour, traffic moves very smartly in Howard County. No complaints here.
It won't be long before the FR statists are singing their predictable "If you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to fear!" song. I swear some conservative folks simply love the taste of bootpolish.
~ Blue Jays ~
This wreaks of the "block captain" mentality of communism and "la vigilancia," ( The Vigilance ) of Cuba.
Howard County is probably the most major speed trap on the east coast. Avoid doing any sort of business there and always have your radar detector turned on when driving through the place on I95.
When you think about it, this is kinda ingenious. It takes radar guns (granted, probably only old X-band that couldn't be used for profitable enforcement anyway) out of the hands of cops. It gives the local busybodies something to do "for the chillllldrun," and gets them off the backs of local officials, who no longer need to placate their whining with actual ticket-writing police. And the wannabe-cops can't issue actual tickets, so the motorists only get easily disposable warnings and don't have to waste a day in court. Sounds like a win-win for all involved.
Ratting on my fellow citizens to the JBT's? I don't think so.
"The purpose of the SMART program "is to use peer pressure to solve the problem"
The secret police in Communist societies use this technique very effectively. Brings to mind the Stasi of East Germany and KBG in Soviet Russia.
Bunch of arrogant @ssholes who believe the law doesn't apply to them.
I could sign one of these babies out and test my car and Valentine 1. Test distances, obstacles (hills, bldgs, etc) accuracy, all sorts of cool stuff!
Maybe even develop a radar jammer.
The last three neighborhoods I've lived in have, at various times, asked the local police to set up a radar unit to catch the drivers speeding through. These are more quiet neighborhoods with people walking their dogs, pushing strollers, joggers, and lots of kids, especially when the school bus drops them off, plenty of reasons for the 25 mph speedlimit and I don't blame my neighbors for not wanting speeders flying through. I applaud them for getting frustrated enough to take matters into their own hands. I've seen this one old guy on the corner pointing what looks like a hair dryer at speeders.
hmm, next thing you know they will want vigilante citizens to report illegal aliens /sarcasm
Have you thought of driving the speed limit?
Everything you say may be true, but I fail to see how it justifies speeding through someone else's residential neighbourhood. I generally have a healthy disregard for speed limits but in residential subdivisions you'll generally find me driving well below the defacto (not posted) speed limit of 50 km/h (30 mph).
If the police will let me roll a spike strip in front of cars speeding through the neighborhood, I'll volunteer for double shifts.
Hallway monitors grow up to be busybodies holding radar guns. We still need to beat them up.