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Originally Posted by Stanathan
We need a Sheriff, police officer, or RCMP to weigh in here. I think most of you are making too much of this calibration issue. I'm sure in this day and age, their calibration methods and radar technology are sound. The last time I spoke to an RCMP member about calibration he very candidly discussed how calibration is done, how often, and how accurate the radar is. They typically allow for a variable of 2km/hour either way, it is that accurate.
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I knew a guy who was a mechanic, his dad was a cop; basically what he said is that the detectors are fairly accurate however this was not the issue. The issue was that in a court of law it was possible to use precedent of others who fought their tickets on the grounds that the detectors were only accurate to plus/minus 10kph, the result was that way too many people were taking their tickets to court and dragging the cop along with them resulting in a huge waste of time.
So if they only give tickets to everyone 10 or more above they are exponentially less likely to try and fight it and waste the cops time. Even if they knew they were speeding 5 over people would fight it because they knew they had a chance.