Gun vs. GPS this is intresting on the gps verses the radar guns in court

 We incorrectly reported that that Shaun Malone was found innocent of speeding. As PressDemocrat.com reports, the trial is still ongoing and is scheduled to resume on October 3rd. The judge "is expected to issue a ruling after hearing additional testimony in October, including from both sides' experts."

 

While an 11-year old, Louisville, Kentucky boy is using a toy radar gun to get drivers to slow down through his neighborhood, the police are finding that real radar guns might not be a match for GPS--at least not when contested in court. 

According to a press release issued by Rocky Mountain Tracking, an 18-year old man, Shaun Malone, was able to successfully contest a speeding ticket in court using the data from a GPS device installed in his car. This wasn't just any old make-a-left-turn-100-feet-ahead-onto-Maple-Street GPS; this was a vehicle tracking GPS device--the kind used by trucking fleets--or in this case, overprotective parents. The device was installed in Malone's car by his parents, and the press release makes no mention if the teenager knew that the device was installed in his vehicle at the time.

Credit: Rocky Mountain Tracking

No matter, because Malone knew by the time he had to show up in court to contest the speeding ticket for going 17-mph over the posted 45-mph speed limit. While the police clocked him going 62-mph, the GPS's data in fact showed him driving at the 45-mph speed limit. In an initial trial-by-affidavit, Malone was found guilty of speeding. GPS expert, Dr. Stephen Heppe wrote a report that essentially said that the GPS data was not accurate enough to contest the accuracy of the radar gun. Malone appealed the decision and had his day in court. At trial, things played out differently:

"However, when he took the stand to begin his testimony, Dr. Heppe corrected that written report, saying that the Rocky Mountain Tracking device was "very" accurate, to within a couple of meters on location and to within 1 mph on speed. Dr. Heppe also pointed out that the GPS device released instantaneous data, and not data averaged over a distance."

Needless to say, with Dr. Heppe's revised testimony, Malone was found innocent of speeding.

Obviously, Rocky Mountain Tracking's motivation for publicizing this incident is to promote the accuracy of its RMT Rover GPS device. But it also brings up a larger issue: The sophistication of vehicle telematics is increasing all the time. Are we now at the point that the data generated from our personal location devices (such as GPS in cell phones and in-car navigation devices) is considered reliable enough to help exonerate us from false accusations? But isn't this also a slippery slope, where the same data can be used to incriminate us as well? It's one thing for parents to keep a close eye on their kids, but what happens when jealous spouses are tracked, or law enforcement uses the data to know where you've been. When does it become an invasion of privacy? Tell us what you think.

This you must read about as a man spends sixty thousand dollars on court cost for a faulty speed detector

John Busuttil, photographed with his barrister father Joe, has spent about $60,000 to get off a speeding fine. Photo: Edwina Pickles

However, the radar inside the patrol car was also operating, and it put the bike at a speed of 76km/h. The radar reading was recorded by an in-car video, which Mr Busuttil subpoenaed from police.

Mr Busuttil, who was represented by his barrister father Joe Busuttil, also engaged a surveyor and an internationally accredited radar expert, who gave evidence that it would have been impossible for the LIDAR gun to detect such a high speed at that point of the road.

The court heard that a LIDAR gun must be able to track a target in a straight line for three seconds in order to produce an accurate reading.

In June this year, Senior Constable Chaplin told Sutherland Local Court that he measured the stretch of road "hundreds of times" and it was 325 metres.

However, a report by a surveyor, tendered to the court, showed the line of sight from where Senior Constable Chaplin was standing was only 237 metres and the straight stretch of road was just 180 metres.

Senior Constable Chaplin had said the bike was still 150 metres away from where he was standing when the three-seconds lock was recorded.

Roy Zegers, who told the court he had 30 years' experience in radar equipment, said that distance would not be long enough for the LIDAR gun to get a reading if the bike was travelling at 149km/h.

In quashing the conviction, Judge Woods said: "The miscalculation by over 100 metres of the distance is extraordinary and fundamental."

He said the police officer would not have acted with malice but, in this case, it was correct to order Mr Busuttil's legal costs.

Outside the court, Mr Busuttil said he had spent 18 months and thousands of dollars to prove he was not speeding.

"It's cost a lot but it's worth it in the end," he said.

His father said police charged 22 drivers for speeding on Lady Wakehurst Drive on May 8, 2010, and 10 of them had their licences disqualified.

"I suspect there's something more going on here than just an error," he said.

He encouraged other drivers to challenge speeding fines if they believed they were not speeding.

"If you don't believe you were speeding, take them on."

Mr Busuttil's costs included about $40,000 in litigation costs, which were incurred by his father spending eight days and eight half-days in court at $3500 a day.

The rest of the costs were made up of the fees of solicitors, three expert witnesses and other expenses such as filing fees and court costs.

you have to watch this as the radar gun causing big problems with the war planes you cant miss it as very scarey

This is just some of the things that are incorrect with cams and on dash mounted speed detector units they must be banned as these units are fraud and faulty we the to ban together get these units stoped from ripping the drivers of threw out the world as support the cat in his fight

Today most radar units are extremely accurate. 
There are some conditions that must be met however, and the conditions are as follows: 
The road must be flat and straight. 
There has to be good visibility. 
There needs to be a minimum of traffic 
The officer has to be properly trained to interpret false signals generated by the equipment. Its very rare to find these four conditions existing at the same time. There are a lot of errors that can happen in routine traffic radar operations.


The national Bureau of Standards tested the six radar units most often used by police departments. All of them produced signals that were false from police radios or CD units. All of the units produced panning errors, when used either out or in of the police cars. There were shadowing errors that appeared on all the units when the police cars speed was added to the targeted vehicles speed.

24 models were tested by the International Association of Chief's of Police for five different manufacturers. Those results were even worse than that conducted by the National Bureau of Standards. In spite of the errors found, none of these units were dropped from use. Some of these units are still probably in operation around the country today.

 Panning - This happens when the hand held unit is swept across the dashboard of the car or the control unit mounted to the dash of the car. 

2. Mechanical interference - the a/c or heating fan in the police car, alternator, ignition noises, rotating signs near the roadway, anything mechanical that is operating in the vicinity of the roadway can throw off the readings.

3. Shadowing - all moving radar units have this problem since the targeted speed is calculated by subtracting the speed of the police car from the closing speed of the target.

LOL even the oldies have lost respect for the polices force around the world they are showing their feeling s have your say

NASA aims to reduce asteroid threat

Add this to your worry list: Orbiting somewhere near Earth are an estimated 13,000 asteroids big enough to possibly level a country - and NASA has no clue as to when, where or whether they might strike.

Worse, astronomers think their sky maps might still be missing an additional 50 to 100 asteroids so massive - roughly 0.6 mile across or larger - that they could end civilisation if they hit Earth.

With those cosmic threats in mind, the Obama administration on Tuesday unveiled a `Grand Challenge' that would redouble efforts by NASA - and challenge amateur astronomers - to catalogue every asteroid near Earth that's large enough to cause significant damage. NASA also is being asked to lead a new campaign to figure out how to defend Earth from doomsday rocks.

"We want to prove that we are, in fact, smarter than the dinosaurs," said NASA deputy administrator Lori Garver, referring to the massive asteroid or comet that scientists think killed the dinosaurs about 65 million years ago.

Though her example was dramatic, Garver didn't have to reach that far back to show what a space rock can do to Earth. Just this February, an asteroid 55 feet in diameter exploded over Russia, injuring more than 1,000 people. And car-sized asteroids enter - and burn up - in the atmosphere almost weekly.

As it stands, NASA has located about 95 per cent of the asteroids big enough to annihilate everyone on Earth - and none poses any immediate danger of hitting the planet. But they are a lot less certain about where to find the smaller ones.

NASA scientists estimate that about 13,000 asteroids larger than 460 feet - which have the potential to level a country - remain undiscovered. And there could be millions more that are close in size to the Russian asteroid.

"We have done a very good job on the big ones. It's the smaller ones that could be a potential threat and where we have a lot of work to do," said Jason Kessler, of NASA's chief technologist office.

Still, the money for this program has been minuscule compared with NASA's proposed 2014 budget of $17.7 billion (A$18.7 billion). And even a White House decision to double the amount - from US$20 million (A$21.1 million) in 2013 to US$40 million (A$42.2 million) in its 2014 budget - isn't much by NASA standards.

That's why the administration's plan also directs NASA to partner with amateur astronomers and space activists. A NASA document released Tuesday also asks the space community to submit ideas on how to detect asteroids and deflect them.

The added budget money would be spent on wringing more observations from radar and telescopes on Earth, including the Pan-STARRS facility in Hawaii that can monitor wide swaths of the cosmos.

NASA officials also hope to use some of the money to revive an orbiting telescope known as WISE - for Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer - that can detect as many as 100 new asteroids a year.

"Our plan is to turn it back on," said Jim Green, director of NASA's planetary-science division.

NASA put WISE into hibernation in 2011 after it had completed its primary mission of surveying the entire sky in infrared light; it found a host of new cosmic objects, including millions of black holes. And even though WISE has exhausted its supply of coolant needed to chill its sensitive telescope, Green said NASA hoped it would still be useful for asteroid detection.

"We'll start using it in two wavelength bands that don't require cooling" but still can help find nearby asteroids, he said.

Though the asteroid-detection program has no firm deadline, Garver said the aim was to find all nearby - and dangerous - space rocks by 2033, about 20 years from now.

NASA's own plan to defend the Earth from asteroids still is in its infancy. As part of its 2014 budget, the administration is proposing a mission to "lasso" a small asteroid with a space probe and drag it near the moon. Agency officials said the mission could help them practice how it might redirect a dangerous asteroid.

An open question is how Congress will react to the new initiative. Though lawmakers generally have supported asteroid-detection efforts, a US House blueprint for NASA up for debate Wednesday includes no funding for the asteroid-capture mission.

Vic sex offenders dot get away after a 24 hours escape

Sean Andrew Carmody-Coyle, 27, and David Gregory Byrnes, 26, walked out of Corella Place, near Ararat Prison, late on Wednesday night.

They were captured on the Western Highway at nearby Buangor on Thursday afternoon.

The pair both served sentences for sexual offences, but were under court supervision orders which dictated they live at the facility and adhere to a curfew.

Police say both men will be charged with breaches of the Serious Sex Offenders Act.

The maximum penalty for a breach is five years' imprisonment.

Byrnes was put on an eight year supervision order in May last year, while Carmody-Coyle was put on a five year order in February.

Victoria Police Acting Commander Neil Paterson said both men had extensive criminal histories of violence and sexual offences.

It is the second time Byrnes has escaped from the facility.

Corrections Victoria Commissioner Jan Shuard said Corella Place was designed to ensure authorities could monitor sexual offenders upon their release from prison.

"This is not a secure facility. It is not a prison. They are not contained at this facility," she told reporters in Melbourne on Thursday.

"They are electronically monitored, supervised by staff and accounted for."

Last month, Corrections Minister Edward O'Donohue announced residents at the facility would be made to wear upgraded GPS devices, to be rolled out from July this year.

The men were wearing radio anklets that informed authorities they had left the grounds of Corella Place.

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wonder when this unit was serviced last a little bird tell me that there serviced every twelve months being micro wave these units should be set up and tuned before every day of use but they are not the operator are not trained to operate these unit correctly so why are police forces using this type of apparatus have your say

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This picture tells a thousand storys as on a straight section of road and they clean up a brick fence wow

The police are even dis respecting the old people on the roads as she said that there was problem as needing to go on a nature call to the bathroom

The tax payer is paying for another blunder these two think this car is a four wheel drive and goes in water

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Typical police over reacting to a speeding driver lets pull this female from a car do the job as one holds her down the other points a gun to her head how bloody stupid are these guys

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Where the donuts and the coffy this is the police we need more of the tax money money to burn for you

These test wont be made public as they should be l say name and shame so have your say

A picture tells a thousand stories put your mind to work and laugh out loud

Have a look at this police are a law upon them self parking in a disable parking spot at a hostpital of all thing

This is another big blunder by the police getting bogged up to the front axel

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Four-year-old filmed driving why havent they charged the mother as this is rude

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The daughter of a Victorian driver released from jail after killing six teenagers in a hit-run crash is hoping the community can finally forgive him.

cops have nt got any thing else to do as pulling this kid over

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A COPPER WHO DIDNT NO HOW TO CONTROL A HIGH POWERD CAR AND TAX PAYERS HAVE TO PAY FOR IT

NINE POLICE CARS WERE AT THIS SCENE TO A SINGLE BIKER IN MOOROOLBARK VIC THIS IS OVER THE TOP

THIS IS PROOF AS POLICE AND DONUT"S GO HAND IN HAND LOL

THIS PICTURE WAS TAKEN AFTER POLICE CAUGHT TO TEENS HOONING ON TRAIL BIKES THEY NEED TO OPEN UP PLACES WERE TEENS CAN RIDE IN SAFTY

POLICE BEATING PEOPLE UP IN A PARK AND SWEARING DRIVING IN CARELESS WAY

HOW MANY COPS DOES IT TAKE TO HAND OUT A DEFECT NOTICE

THE POLICE SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED WITH USING L PLATES ON UNMARKED CARS HAVE YOU SAY

ANOTHER PROUD BLUNDER AS THE POLICE RUN THIS INTO THE BACK OF A PARK CAR

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Copper got cleared of killing an armed cat on the job this is sick

An Ohio policeman shot to death a litter of kittens on Wednesday, telling a group of screaming children that the animals would be going to “kitty heaven”. But instead of firing the officer, the local police department cleared him of any wrongdoing.

Humane Officer Barry Accorti was responding to a report of a litter of feral cats that were located in the woodpile of a home in North Ridgeville on June 10. The resident who made the call said the cats were bringing fleas to the home and leaving dead wildlife in her backyard.  Twenty minutes after the call was made, the officer arrived at the scene. After spotting the five kittens, he told the resident’s distressed children that the cats would be going to heaven. Shortly thereafter, he took a gun from his vehicle and shot the animals to death.

“He informed [the resident] that shelters were full and that these cats would be going to kitty heaven,”Ohio SPCA Director Teresa Landon told the Cleveland Sun News. “She assumed he would be trapping them or something and taking them to a shelter and they would be humanely euthanized if they were not adopted.”

Initially, the woman who made the call assumed that the gun was a tranquilizer. But to her surprise, the 8-to-10 week-old kittens were shot dead, just 15 feet from the back door to her house.

“She was very distraught when this happened,” Landon said. “He started shooting them right in front of her. Her children were upstairs in view of the windows. They started screaming and crying because they heard the gunshots. They started screaming, ‘Mommy, he’s killing the kittens.’”

The homeowner’s four children are all between the ages of 5 months and 7 years.

Landon told the Sun News that the incident is heartbreaking and inexcusable, and that a humane officer should never resort to using a weapon unless the animal is in severe pain or attacking the officer. 

Landon said that Accorti should be fired and charged with animal cruelty. But instead, Police Chief Mike Freeman cleared the officer of any wrongdoings and concluded that his actions were appropriate.

“After visiting the scene, talking with the responding officer and re-interviewing the complainant, I have decided his actions were appropriate and have decided not to impose any disciplinary measures for the incident,” Freeman wrote in a press release, describing the cats as having been “euthanized”. He also stated that research and animal organizations perceive shooting as a humane form of euthanasia. But Landon still believes the officer should be prosecuted

“The kittens were just sitting there,” she told The Morning Journal. “They didn’t have to die. They were only 10 months old at most and they still could have been socialized.”

THIS SUMS IT UP FOR THE POLICE IN TWO WORD LOL

I WONDER WHO PAYS THE BILL ON THESE WRECKED POLICE CARS

THIS IS THE TAX PAYER AGAIN WHO PAYS AT THE END WATCHTHIS

POLICE CARS GETTING WRECKED WHO PAYS FOR THIS TAX PAYERS

ANOTHER POLICE BLUNDER AND THE PUBLIC HAVE TO PAY PAY IT

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Tegra Police blunder could see Dotcom reclaim luxury

Controversial  founder Kim Dot com may be able to claim back thousands of dollars-worth , after a ”procedural error” by the New Zealand police meant their seizure was illegal. The court order has “no legal effect” and is “null and void” Justice Judith Potter ruled on Friday last week, the  reports, after police commissioner Peter Marshall applied for the “incorrect order” and then subsequently attempted to switch it over. At stake are around a dozen Mercedes-Benz AMG models, a 2008 Rolls-Royce Phantom Drop head Coupé, and more.

POLICE TEXTING WHILE DRIVER PUTTING THE PUBLIC IN DANGER

THIS IS AN END RESULT OF AN OFFICER TEXTING AND DRIVING SHAME ON THE POLICE FORCE

ONE SET OF RULE FOR THE POLICE AND ANOTHER FOR THE PUBLIC

HI there why is it the police force can get away with running L plates on un marked cars this photo was taken in frankston vic and the car was identifyd as being an un marked police car and the driver had a full breath now if this was a member of public they would of been fined and had the book thrown at them

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WHY DO THE POLICE FORCES AROUND THE WORLD USE FAULY SPEED DETECTOR UNITS

HI all did you no tha t on board micro wave speed detectors are faulty and fraud as the public have a rite to no this as most police forces are using these devices as these device are proven to be faulty they are only serviced once a year by people who have no idea on what they are doing in this field as they suffer from shadows and suffer from electrical transmission in the car that they are set up in littles spike of power loss can cause these units to hip cup and even using a heater in the car can cause these units to mis read speed they also have got to be pointed at the objects that they are chasing they can not determin speed correctly as the locking system on these units does not lock correctly so whay are the police forces around the world using these micro wave speed detectors as they are fraud and taking the public at larges money http://home.iprimus.com.au/johnhpowlton/radar/radarUnits.html for more info please feel free to visit this site as lm the koolest cat on face book they have banned me and several others from commenting on there public site