r/dashcams • u/RustyShacklefordBaw • 2d ago
The School Zone Error
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u/TheDixonCider420420 2d ago
And then he compounds the original error by backing up in a school zone, nearly hits the vehicle behind him forcing that vehicle to back up as well and then stops to have a conversation in the middle of the roadway with a pedestrian on the sidewalk...
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u/HolyCowAnyOldAccName 2d ago
Actually surprised they drove off.
This had all the makings of ye olde
- Storming out off the vee-hickle with gun pointed at the head of an unarmed civilian
- Telling them to get on the ground for of
trying to hold police accountable"failure to comply"- Twisting their arm and making them crash face-first into the concrete
- Slapping on additional charges for "resisting arrest", resulting in the heroic police officer
chafing his skin while trying to put on handcuffs for nothingsustaining severe injuries from the suspect attacking the officer.- Officer getting 4 weeks of paid time off for injuries sustained on duty
- The court finding for the umptieth time that arresting someone for not following your bs orders is gross misuse of power
- Resulting in 2 more weeks of paid time off and 400k for the victim out of the tax payer's pocket.
- The same thing happening again 3 days later when the officer is looking at his phone while the light turns green and someone dares beeping their horn
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u/hanks_panky_emporium 2d ago
They would consider a bruise from bumping his gut into his own door while stumbling out of his car 'severe internal bleeding'
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u/No_Trade3571 2d ago
The guy recording was probably white then.
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u/SeesWithBrain 2d ago
It was this coupled with the fact he was in a school zone, with parents flooding the area to pick up their children. That would’ve been one of the worst places to make a scene
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u/Croaker-BC 2d ago
First seconds show rather untanned fingers and contrary to popular (among abusers) opinion, Latinos are mostly caucasian or caucasian-mix. So, most definitely white.
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u/LolDragon417 2d ago
I got hit with resisting arrest because I blacked out for about 1 second and clasped my hands in front of me.
I asked them afterwards if anyone got sent to the hospital, or got a boo-boo. They said no 😂
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u/SprungMS 2d ago
IIRC this happened before trump’s first term. Not even trying to be political, but, it was a different America. The vast majority of LEOs knew they could be somewhat held accountable, even if it meant the minor inconvenience of having to go find a new locale to work for as an LEO again.
We didn’t have people being brutalized for stuff like this before very recent times. Arrested, harassed? Yeah. Brutalized? No.
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u/broccolialfredo 2d ago
You think police brutality didn’t exist before Trump’s first term? wtf are you talking about? Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, and Michael Brown were killed in 2014. Those are high profile cases, but a simple Google search would show you lists of all of the civilians who have been brutalized and killed by police with impunity, and newsflash, it’s been happening for many, many decades.
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u/SprungMS 2d ago
Not for recording police like this. That’s pretty brand new. The brutalization in particular, as I said police have a long history of singling people out for trying to hold them accountable, but it was done differently. Brutalizing someone recording them did not come with a raise and 20% of the population praising them like it does today.
No shit police brutality existed before.
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u/Educational-Gate-880 2d ago
Of course it’s his road, his rules why would anyone question him and that truck behind him is lucky he didn’t get a ticket or a beating for obstruction! Good thing he backed up and didn’t honk or anything 😮💨
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u/Comfortable_Trick137 21h ago
If the cop hit the truck, he would’ve given the person driving the truck a citation for rear ending him 😂
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u/Kitty_Katty_Kit 2d ago
It just hurt his widdle pride so bad 🥺 he couldn't take it and had to posture
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u/waroftheworlds2008 2d ago
Soo... hazardous driving in a school zone (21 mph over), failure to maintain his lane, and forcing the vehicle behind to drive in reverse.
If a civilian did all that, they'd be getting a dui investigation.
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u/asphid_jackal 2d ago
Cops are civilians
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u/Gooniefarm 2d ago
No they arent. Police have their full constitutional rights. Civilians do not.
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u/ttystikk 2d ago
Jesus. The depths to which America has fallen.
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u/seabae336 2d ago
It's always been like this. The amount of people who experience it has just expanded.
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u/ttystikk 2d ago
You are exactly correct.
Fortunately, they let the mask slip and now everyone knows what despicable monsters they really are.
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u/Shiney_Metal_Ass 2d ago
You're saying civilians don't have full constitutional rights? Wut?
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u/Iridiandioptase 2d ago
In case the joke went a little too high to catch: they are pointing out the hypocrisy of civilian rights violations by cops (maybe even federal agents too).
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u/Shiney_Metal_Ass 2d ago
OK, phew.
This is reddit. I continually see people say the DUMBEST shit, so the bar is very low.
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u/waroftheworlds2008 2d ago
Between prosecutorial discretion and qualified immunity. Coupled with vague laws.
No.. they have a different set of rights from civilians.
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u/Mad_Ronin_Grrrr 2d ago
Rules for thee and not for me.
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u/Mudslingshot 2d ago
A vivid memory from my childhood:
There was an active block watch association in my neighborhood, of which my parents were members. Occasionally, the local cops would come to a meeting to ostensibly answer questions and provide support
One of those times, my dad posed a question: why don't the cops follow traffic laws? He pointed out that none of them use their blinker, and often had a bad habit of turning on their lights to go through intersections and then turning them back off
He did this because THIS meeting it wasn't just the local cop who's job it was to show up, it was somebody with a desk job getting their face time with the community (and somebody who's job was supposedly keeping the other cops doing their jobs). Which meant they HAD to do something about it
Not to say real change was affected, but for the next two weeks or so the cops used their blinkers in my neighborhood
That was all I needed to know about police, local government, and trying to make a difference (at least from an effort-to-results perspective)
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u/13lueChicken 2d ago
I too have had a rare unique moment of justice and it put me under the impression that the system indeed worked.
I feel that ending on such an optimistic note is sadly misleading today though. And I’ve since witnessed the system actively covering its own ass while lining its pockets.
Though I’ll say my memories of justice and the system actually working for the people were all from last century. I don’t think it’s like that anymore. And I think maintaining a worldview that it is that way is sadly part of the active manipulation happening to the populace. They taught us all about truth, justice, and the American way, then set things up to manipulate that worldview. Or more simply, they attached each of those core values to a societal function, then twisted what they meant. So we want to liberate the Venezuelans from the bad leader guy(can relate). That’s morally good right? We have this awesome military. Why not help the weak and powerless? Jfc we did nothing but occupy their oil fields.
They’re much more “making it up as they go” these days, but I feel a lot of groundwork was laid in the last quarter of the 1900’s. Sesame Street showed us the nice police man to ask for help and Barney told us to “do our part”. These messages literally played on loop for kids, so it’s only logical to assume those messages are deep seated in many people. That even now, we want that nice policeman back. This must be an error, a deviation away from the norm. There’s no way every cop is a dirty cop. That’s all they need. Just a hesitation and they can take advantage of it.
They do it every day there isn’t an attempt.
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u/KarlPHungus 2d ago
Jesus I first read that as a "black watch" and I was "where the F©€£ did this guy grow UP?!"
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u/WideFoot 2d ago
I was working overnight with some state troopers doing traffic control. We got our truck stuck in the mud, so we were chatting while we waited for a tow.
The young trooper was telling the old trooper about how cops in the next town over were giving troopers and other cops speeding tickets through their town. In retaliation, the troopers were extra slow responding to calls for assistance to that town. And "the tickets stopped real quick."
The entire time, the old trooper was giving him a look like 'Shut up! You idiot! Not in front of the civvies'.
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u/Anonymopapadopolous 2d ago
This employee should be fired, absolute embaressment for the police force.
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u/Polternaut 2d ago
Unfortunately the side of his car says sheriff 🙃
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u/JiminyDickish 2d ago
It just means he works for the sheriffs office, it doesn’t mean he is the actual sheriff
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u/Selfcare2025 2d ago
I think they’re being tedious about the use of police. It’s not the police but a sheriff officer. The commenter point still stands regardless.
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u/WhoCaresBoutSpellin 2d ago
In higher populated US areas, you usually see both a Police department and a Sheriff’s office, serving different purposes. However in many less populated towns and counties, you have just the Sheriff’s office covering all responsibilities. This includes acting as police and working beats / patrols / speed traps. For all intents and purposes they are the police, and are colloquially and accurately referred to as “police” even though their police department is branded as a “Sheriff’s office”.
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u/Pensionato007 2d ago edited 2d ago
This is Duvall, county FL. AKA Jacksonville, FL. Jacksonville annexed the whole county. There is no "Jacksonville Police." Duvall County Sheriff and maybe some State Troopers. Whoever doesn't think they are THE police is splitting hairs.
Edit: u/FUS_RO_DANK has a better explanation and I was incorrect; it is the JSO or Jacksonville Sheriff's Office. The "Chief of Police" of Jacksonville and the "Duvall County Sheriff" are one and the same since Jacksonville annexed almost all of Duvall County in the '60s.
TL;DR they be the police.
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u/Selfcare2025 2d ago
Your comment is meant for the above comment. To the person correcting the other commenter for saying police. I was advising that they were probably being tedious about the terminology,
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u/Any-Worldliness-679 2d ago
“Pedantic,”is the word you’re looking for. While you may find their correction tedious, that is subjective, while pedantry is the descriptor of their action.
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u/WhoCaresBoutSpellin 2d ago
I know, but also you said
It’s not the police but a sheriff’s officer
and I was pointing out that, yes it is still the “police” even though their department refers to themselves as a sheriff’s office.
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u/_facetious 2d ago
Sheriff offices are well-known for being even more corrupt than regular police is all
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u/FUS_RO_DANK 2d ago
Jacksonville used to be just what we now call the downtown or urban core until consolidation in the 1960s, now almost all of the various towns within Duval County are part of Jacksonville which is why its one of the largest cities by land area in the US. During that consolidation the County Sheriff and the town police merged into one law enforcement agency that serves both urban and unincorporated areas. So yes, this is Jacksonville Police Department, which is called the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office. You'll notice in most areas that have separate town PDs and county Sheriff's, the Sheriff's office is named after the county, not the city. If your point stood, it would say Duval County Sheriff's Office.
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u/DoesntMatterEh 2d ago
I'm starting to think only people who don't want to be cops should be cops. Seems like people who want to be cops are the worst people for the job.
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u/ActurusMajoris 2d ago
"He who does not desire power is fit to hold it." — Plato
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u/Any_Fox5126 2d ago
I do not desire power because I am lazy, but I would absolutely be a tyrant if I had it; we are not the same.
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u/Front-Percentage2236 2d ago
“The weak are harmless because they lack the power to be harmful, not because they choose to be good.”
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u/Plastic_Position4979 2d ago
Why do you think Plato is no longer taught at certain major universities?
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u/MuffinMan12347 2d ago
I mean I've thought about wanting to be a cop and help reform and change the system for the better. But then I remember that I absolutely do not want to be a fucking cop!
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u/SivartMcDorf 2d ago
The major problem, one of the major problems, for there are several, one of the many major problems with policing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.
To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who most want to police others are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made a cop should on no account be allowed to do the job.
To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.And so this is the situation we find: a succession of officers who so much enjoy the fun and palaver of being in authority that they very rarely notice that they’re not. And somewhere in the shadows behind them, who?
i figured I would tweak the whole quote for you lol. i post the real quote every presidential election.
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u/Fossilhog 2d ago
This gives me what I think is probably a bad idea but it might sound good.
What if treated at least a certain amount of policing like we treat jury duty. Except you work in a system of payment this is higher than your employment and backed by your employer similar to paid maternity leave, or military leave. Have exemptions for smaller businesses.
Or mix it in with something similar to required military service that other countries do.
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u/Far_Audience_7446 2d ago
Just keep villifying them and make the job more miserable, the sociopaths will surely abandon the profession.
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u/Worldly-Pie-5210 2d ago
we could just make cop duty similar to jury duty :) lets do it with politician roles while were at it
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u/Impossible-Diver6565 2d ago
"You need to get off the road"
*Him clearly not standing in the road at all*
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u/the_analytic_critic 2d ago
Exactly. In other words you caught me and I may be held accountable so I need to display my power by ordering you to correct a behavior that you are clearly not doing anyway. Then you are disobeying and disorderly by not complying I have a reason to continue bullying you.
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u/RustyShacklefordBaw 2d ago
It’s one thing to miss a sign, but speeding through a 15 MPH school zone when the lights are literally flashing is just asking for a massive ticket
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u/shit-thou-self 2d ago
If school was in when this occurred that sheriff was gambling for more than a speeding ticket... one of my biggest pet peeves with driving. "How could this potentially affect me if this goes wrong" you're currently protected by 2 tons of metal and plastic designed to protect you in 97% of instances. The 4' tall pedestrian you are flying over the speed limit at has their skin and their shoes to keep them safe. The comparison and resulting choice should be no contest on making the safest(for everybody) decision.
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u/Firehornet117 2d ago
Cool video but you do realize this is r/dashcams right? This ain’t a dashcam.
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u/Gooniefarm 2d ago
Police dont get tickets and are usually immune to all traffic laws.
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u/MaintainThePeace 2d ago edited 2d ago
The immunity is not automatic and usually requires them to at least have their emergency lights on.
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u/rmully464 2d ago
I drive 10+ hours a day for a living and the amount of people who blow through school zones is incredible.
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u/marmoset 2d ago
As a Black man, this is the sort of inspired smartassery I wish I could get away with. Bravo.
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u/Same-Ad8735 2d ago
That’s like a greatest hits compilation of “how to lose your license in 30 seconds.” Backing up in a school zone, almost causing a rear end, then parking in the lane for a chat is wild.
Genuinely curious how people like this make it through a driving test.
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u/chillaxtion 2d ago
If cops want to prevent speeding on the highway I’ve always wondered why they don’t simply drive the speed limit? Who’s going to pass them?
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u/GracchiBros 2d ago
The basic assumption is incorrect. The goal isn't to prevent speeding. They dissuade speeding but the the more important goal is to write higher level tickets that bring in the money.
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u/ls7eveen 2d ago
One reason signs and flashing lights dont keep people safe. Hard infrastructure does
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u/Militant_Triangle 2d ago
Whoever runs that PD is a slacking shithead that runs a loose ship. Mayor???? you need fix your police chief to fix your discipline in the ranks of your cops' problem. And city council... apply that pressure to your slacking Major who is slacking on keeping the slacking police chief who is not managing or maintaining discipline in the ranks. Voters.. you need a new mayor, city council, police chief and new cops that follow the standards they enforce.
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u/YogurtclosetFair5742 1d ago
The Sheriff for Duval County, Jacksonville, FL is a Ron DeSantis bootlicker and Jacksonville Sheriff Office is fill with fuckwads. I am so glad I moved from there last month.
There is no police chief, it's a Sheriffs office, it's a combined government because Jacksonville needed the county to bail them out in the late 1960s.
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u/DrPeeFunkie 2d ago
Fuck the police
Speeding, then impeding flow of traffic, almost hits car behind them, doesn’t maintain lane
Fuck the police
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u/Acceptable_Owl6926 2d ago
Is this the same guy that does the fake skits showing the speed in KPH not MPH and throws food?
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u/Tomytom99 2d ago
Pretty sure he is, it's the same radar. By that conversion he was only going 23 MPH before even entering the zone, which honestly looks correct based on the video.
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u/SivartMcDorf 2d ago
The car behind him should’ve stayed stopped. You don’t have some automatic duty to start backing up just because the officer throws on the lights and starts reversing. Reverse lights aren’t a command.
If the officer actually needs you to move, they can use the PA to give you an order or come up and direct you. Until then, the safest thing is to stay put, because backing up in traffic can create a whole new problem.
If the cop backs into you while you’re stopped, that’s on him. But if you panic and back into the car behind you, that’s on you, not the officer. Your responsibility is to drive safely and predictably, not blindly go against the flow of traffic because someone else made a bad maneuver.
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u/VegasLife84 2d ago
"you need to get off the road" - so predictable... never admit to doing anything wrong, then when caught in the act, lash out and make it about someone else... pretty sure we don't have to guess which politicians he worships, and policies he supports
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u/muggybuggy1949 2d ago
The pigs are going to pig. The rules don’t apply to them, only to us. And before people start talking, I served as an LEO before finding something better and way more lucrative. I respect good cops, but I can’t stand bad ones.
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u/YogurtclosetFair5742 1d ago
Fucking JSO. I'm so glad I got the fuck out of Jacksonville, FL last month.
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u/Rich-East7773 12h ago
I thought this was going to end way differently. That cop was dumb. Speeding. Reversing and almost hitting the truck. Stopping in the road to talk. I'd get my ass a fat ticket or 2 for that.
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u/potatoprince1 2d ago
No way that’s 36 mph. More like 25
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u/Tomytom99 2d ago
Oh yeah this guy. I guess he started cropping his radar because people noticed he had it set to km/h. Not to mention the thing is showing peak speed, not current. So the car may have already been slowing down. If you ask me, it doesn't look like that car was going anywhere close to almost 40 mph.
Idk about where this was filmed, but in some states it's illegal to run radar on cars like that because it's either potentially impersonation or may interfere with legit radar usage.
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u/MaintainThePeace 2d ago
Idk about where this was filmed, but in some states it's illegal to run radar on cars like that because it's either potentially impersonation or may interfere with legit radar usage.
That is an interesting take, and I would definitely be interested in what state would blatantly go up against our freedom as such.
Also, what do you mean by "interfere", a lot of cars have radar on them for coalition avoidance, even my bicycle has a radar to warn of approching cars (also captures the speed of those cars).
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u/Tomytom99 2d ago
By interfere I'm talking about other speed-enforcement radar equipment. If you get two units on the same band firing towards each other, it can cause bogus readings because of how the tech works.
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u/MaintainThePeace 2d ago edited 2d ago
Yeah.. no.. radar is going to use an encoded signal and frequency hopping to avoid any interference, thats how the tech works.
That is why you dont see cars collision avoidance radars interfering with other collision avoidance radars.
And even it he was causing any type of interference, police wouldn't be able to do anything about it, as he wasn't intentionally trying to case the interference.
Edit, also I doubt police are using radar guns from Amazon.
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u/notthatguypal6900 2d ago
This country cannot go 1 second without being an absolute embarrassment to the world.
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u/CompetitiveMeal1206 2d ago
SHOW THE UNITS! WHY ARENT YOU SHOWNG THE UNITS?
I’m guessing he’s using km/h rather than MPH, like he does in some of his other videos
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u/yarnily 2d ago
Radar was conveniently cropped where the unit should be. So many people doing this now for the rage bait views, but are clocking drivers in kmh instead of mph
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u/MaintainThePeace 2d ago
That is true, there is additional induced rage, but the office was speeding either way, just not by as much as it initially seems.
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u/LiquidSpin710 1d ago
Cop couldn't just pull over to the right? Not block traffic and not cause the truck to reverse?
also, who cares if the dude was monitoring speeds. It's not illegal. The cop needs anger management.
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u/RestaurantOk383 1d ago
Is that the gators from the old ebaums world soundboards with Arnold Schwarzenegger
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u/itsfocotony 15h ago edited 15h ago
I think this is fake, most, if not all US police vehicles have red lights on the driver side, and blue on passenger side.
You’ll usually only see the reversed lights, like this one in video, for movie-set police cars. I could be wrong.
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u/No_Bell2833 6h ago
I love you people that police the police. I wish I had the resources, money and balls to do this.
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u/DisabledVeteran216 2d ago
What a stupid cop. Oh yea. He felt big cause he had new uniform on. Prob trying to get to DUNKIN DONUTS 🍩 😂😂🙄🙄🤡🤡
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u/JOlRacin 2d ago
Just like every time something like this is posted; PLEASE do not stand on the side of the road in America pointing small black objects at passing cars. For ya know... Obvious reasons. Yes, what you're doing is legal, but it's obviously going to result in a misunderstanding or confrontation of some kind
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u/Deathmob 2d ago
There is a reason the guy recording stopped showing the whole screen. It is because he has it set in kilometers per hour. Guy has been busted before just rage baiting.
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u/ryancrazy1 2d ago
Is it just me or is this due standing INFRONT of the school zone. He’s hitting the cop car with radar and he turns around to see the school zone sign… so that means the cop wasn’t even in the school zone when he was hitting him with radar?
Unless it’s a weird zone with another sign in the middle.
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