Current Events > Have any of you ever tried asking to see the reading on the radar gun if you've

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....gotten a speeding ticket? Iirc this is legal to ask in some states, unsure if most states you can ask to see it.

everytime I've been pulled over speeding, I've known I was speeding. I don't see a point in arguing. I just pay the ticket and move on with my life.

furb posted...

everytime I've been pulled over speeding, I've known I was speeding. I don't see a point in arguing. I just pay the ticket and move on with my life.

you've never once even thought about challenging one?

You can ask, theres a good chance the police may let you see it. They dont have any reason to hide info.

plus if you challenge it, theres a very good chance you were also caught on camera speeding.
be it through a nearby security camera or something.

I've been pulled over for speeding once. I was super nervous because I was traveling for work but still under 24 so a coworker rented the car to get a better deal. Cop asks if I knew why I was pulled over, I said no. He tells me he thought I was speeding, I politely disagree. He goes back to his car with my info. Comes back, gives me my stuff back and says have a nice day.

My only other experience with cops was very positive as well. A week before my 21st birthday. Was drinking heavily with some friends and got hungry. Pulled a California rolling stop and got busted for it. My friend in the passenger seat was wasted, we had more beer in the floorboard (unopened thankfully). I admit that I did not come to a complete stop and the cop takes my info to his car. He comes back and says somethin along the lines of "You're drinking my favorite beer and I think tickets are shit, be careful out there."

Being white really is a IRL GTA cheat code.

OldNastyBastard posted...

I've been pulled over for speeding once. I was super nervous because I was traveling for work but still under 24 so a coworker rented the car to get a better deal. Cop asks if I knew why I was pulled over, I said no. He tells me he thought I was speeding, I politely disagree. He goes back to his car with my info. Comes back, gives me my stuff back and says have a nice day.

My only other experience with cops was very positive as well. A week before my 21st birthday. Was drinking heavily with some friends and got hungry. Pulled a California rolling stop and got busted for it. My friend in the passenger seat was wasted, we had more beer in the floorboard (unopened thankfully). I admit that I did not come to a complete stop and the cop takes my info to his car. He comes back and says somethin along the lines of "You're drinking my favorite beer and I think tickets are shit, be careful out there."

Being white really is a IRL GTA cheat code.

yeah, now that you mention it.....being white.....kinda sad that it might be true. In neither instance you were given a ticket? You probably should have been right, so you've never gotten one?

In the first scenario in the rental car, unless the car was severely malfunctioning or the speed limit changed without being posted, I was not speeding. It was a long drive, San Antonio to McAllen (~250 miles), so I was using cruise control.

The second time, I really should have been given a ticket and probably a lot more. Underage drinking and driving? I was stupid as fuck. But I got a warning then.

OldNastyBastard posted...

In the first scenario in the rental car, unless the car was severely malfunctioning or the speed limit changed without being posted, I was not speeding. It was a long drive, San Antonio to McAllen (~250 miles), so I was using cruise control.

The second time, I really should have been given a ticket and probably a lot more. Underage drinking and driving? I was stupid as fuck. But I got a warning then.

a warning, don't many times they officially log the warning into their system?

So it looks like in Texas, a verbal warning did not get logged in any way or go on your record. A written warning may be put on your internal record with the agency issuing it but wouldn't show up on any kind of public report pulled on you. In 2018, there was supposedly a change where all warnings would be recorded.

OldNastyBastard posted...

I've been

My only other experience with cops was very positive as well. A week before my 21st birthday. Was drinking heavily with some friends and got hungry. Pulled a California rolling stop and got busted for it. My friend in the passenger seat was wasted, we had more beer in the floorboard (unopened thankfully). I admit that I did not come to a complete stop and the cop takes my info to his car. He comes back and says somethin along the lines of "You're drinking my favorite beer and I think tickets are shit, be careful out there."

So you drove drunk?

OldNastyBastard posted...

Being white really is a IRL GTA cheat code.

I got pulled for speeding and I acted really interested in the fact the cop had one of those new "ghost" cop cars with the same color decals. Mentioned how I worked selling Fords and knew we had some rolling through etc etc.

He really got to chatting about it like I was just a coworker or some shit then left me alone and said to take it easy cause they had about 12 more of those ghosts rolling around town lol

hyperskate65 posted...

I got pulled for speeding and I acted really interested in the fact the cop had one of those new "ghost" cop cars with the same color decals. Mentioned how I worked selling Fords and knew we had some rolling through etc etc.

He really got to chatting about it like I was just a coworker or some shit then left me alone and said to take it easy cause they had about 12 more of those ghosts rolling around town lol

you ever heard that if you have like a friends of the police sticker on your car in the nyc area or something like that then they will almost never give you a ticket? Similar stuff to this though, a sticker, they will almost never give you one?

Mr_Karate_II posted...

So you drove drunk?

Yes. I was a stupid kid. Not something I've done in a long time.

To be frank, even if you're in one of the few states that mandates showing the radar, you're probably doing yourself more harm than good asking for it considering:

1. You almost certainly were actually speeding
2. The RADAR almost certainly captured that you were speeding.
3. The only chance you have of getting a warning instead of a ticket is showing contrition for the act of speeding, and adopting a confrontational attitude by questioning the cops competence and truthfulness is a sure-fire way to eliminate any good faith you might be able to garner.

The thing that anti-cop people don't explain when they advise you to do all this dumb shit (Recording the police, refusing to talk to them, ect.) is that cops generally do issue lots of warnings instead of citations if you just act like a polite and normal person who can take basic accountability for your behavior. Yes, even if you're a minority.

Now, if you've committed some actual crime then the story is different. But I'm not a defense attorney so I'm not out here trying min-max people out of a criminal conviction.

OldNastyBastard posted...

Yes. I was a stupid kid. Not something I've done in a long time.

You should never do it.