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Originally Posted by Skip
{snip} Also, the platform used brings up an interesting point. Wouldn't it be intriguing if a large pleasure craft, or a non-decscript barge or even a strategic vantage point on an island were used as the observation point, with the MP units responsible for the stops being placed in a nearby discrete location?
Ah, its all a mute point anyway. There is no current legislation being proposed to even consider the speed limit issue, so we're likely years off before we ever cross that bridge....
But it is interesting to speculate how such a technology could be effectively employed.  |
Not unlike the techniques used in ye bad olde days of the NMSL (55). When I was but a poor starving college student commuting to school, the MA State Police would place the transmitter/antenna on a pole mounted above the cruiser parked on the median strip just past a rise in the roadway. You'd never notice the pole and by the time you saw the cruiser it was too late. He would relay the info to other cruisers (sometimes 3 or 4) waiting 0.5 mi or so down the road where you'd actually be stopped and ticketed. Of course this was back when radar detectors were somewhat rare and the SP could sit all day, broadcasting away, and still catch people. Now-a-days I not sure this would be as effective. Then again I'm constantly amazed by the number of people I'll see hit the brakes just as they come abreast of a waiting SP cruiser, parked out there in plain sight. Don't these people look ahead ?!? Apparently not ...
On the lake it would be harder to hide w/o sitting on a island proper. The MP would have to introduce unmarked patrol boats. The VHF radio would become the CB of yesteryear, relaying Smokie's position to other boaters. Radar use would lead to detectors which would lead to lidar. W/o the revenue stream I wonder if the insurance companies would be as quick to help out the MP in funding their purchase. Aaargh ... it's the 70's again ...
