Yes, the most important thing to do if you get pulled over is NOT ask for a ticket, sitting there making a cop angry will not make him want to let you off.

 

Simple solution to this problem... don't speed. If you do speed, be prepared to pay for your actions. The shouts of entrapment need to be quieted down, as the free will decision to travel at a higher rate of speed than the posted limit was the ticketed person's choice.

 

How did he prove that you were speeding?? If he was in front then he was obviously going a few miles above anyway--just keeping up with him doesn't make him right.

 

Knobby is right. I've gotten a number of tickets over many years, and NEVER got one I didn't earn, and I got warnings many times when I could have been ticketed. Truth is, cops don't have to fabricate offenses. I rarely hit the streets without seeing some driver commit an offense. What I hate are the speed traps.... some hick town where you round a corner with a 70mph limit and WHAM!, there a 30mph sign with a local cop setting beside it.
Dono

 

Thats the problem. Many people DO get pulled over for not speeding. Im sorry but being a law abiding citezen doseant work. And no, the shouts of entrapement shouldnt be quieted down, because the cops speed themselves and kill people by there carlees actions, and on top of that they dont get punished for manslaghuter, muder, rape, theft and speeding they get away with everything yet expect you to travlel the posted speed. I will travel the posted speed when the cops travel at the posted speeds.

 

And there are no guilty people in prison, just ask them............

 

I have seen two unmarked CHP vehicles here so far, I only identified them because I saw them pulling someone over. The first was a gold Taurus, the second was a white Expedition. Both had just a small red light at the inside top of the windshield that could be mistaken for a rearview mirror when turned off, and had standard plates, not exempt plates. Don't know if they're playing the entrapment game, but without any identifying marks, I'd have a hard time pulling over for them if I didn't know about them. They can follow me to the CHP office, I'll pull over there. (If they haven't already shot my tires out) Too many bored kids around here that would get a kick out of trying to pull someone over with a red light. -TD

 

YOu can buy those things pretty much anywhere, i have some installed in my grill, blue & Red flashing lights with some strobes, for when i pull up to someones house where i know theres a party going on. Oh what fun.!

 

Well - that is a little sad. I would never do it while someone is behind me.

I would fight the ticket. It would be difficult for the officer to testify that he was getting a consistant reading of speed on you. There may have been times he was gaining distance and times that you were gaining on him.

Fight it - it what is great thing about our system... we can fight it. Try that in Iraq...

 

i have never gotten a speeding ticket i didnt deserve

 

My first speeding ticket I deserved. The second one...not at all. What can ya do.

I don't speed anymore. Except for today when I had to get to work 20 minutes away...with 10 minutes till my shift started. I made it 5 minutes late . Stupid truck...

 

i being a short haul gotta be there now trucker tend to speed alot. not that i am doing 85 mph thru school zones, but i do keep up with traffic, split speed limits like those in illinois are quite the pain for me. in states where the speed limit is 65-70 i am a honest truck driver, in others i am an outlaw.

 

I can honestly say I have gotten 2 I didn't deserve or maybe I did but not for what they were written for the first was for doing 73 in a 55, I was actually doing around 60 so maybe I still deserved the ticket, that one was dismissed because I took it to court, and before I actually got my chance, a lawyer for one other person had noted that the same officer had written approx 20 tickets for 73 in a 55 within a 2-1/2 hr period on the same road within approx 5 miles-- he is no longer a state trooper.
The other was for doing 91 in a 75, in wyo which is pretty good for a truck that had a physical top speed of 83 (gearing tire size, and engine redline mathmatically is 83 on that truck actual dyno showed it wouldn't run past 81 on a chassis dyno) I am not sure how fast I was actually going but the judge took my dyno report, and reduced it to 83 in a 75, and made me pay that ticket still cost me $300 plus travel expenses to fight it. I had always thought if you weren't guilty of what you were charged with you weren't guilty but oh well.

 

Well, if you had to guess - how fast do you think you were going?

 

Sounds to me like you were just trying to get the license plate number of a vehicle that was driving at an unsafe speed, so you could report it to the police dispatch when you got home... Instead of bringing up the fact that he was speeding in court, and saying he trapped you..leave the judge out of that part of it, postpone the court date, and go in and talk to this guys supervisor...ask him if it is standard protocall etc. to pace a vehicle from in front...how quick did you come up on the cop though, if you said he was infront of you for a mile, means you caught up to him, and then slowed down to the 60 he nailed you at, unless you turned onto the highway.

---JOHN