Should Police be able to issue speeding tickets based on "Visual Estimation"?
6/5/2010 at 9:26 AM
This caught my eye on CNN earlier this week.
An Ohio judge has ruled that a police officer's "visual estimation" of the speed a vehicle is going is enough for a speeding conviction.
There are two sides to this...
From one angle, this puts more officers in a position to issue tickets to those that are breaking the law and hypothetically make life that much more difficult on those that speed.
On the other hand, the possibility for human error is introduced when a radar gun isn't necessary. It would be easy to underestimate a trained officer's sense for this type of thing, but with them being human one might argue that the possibility for mistakes is increased.
Thoughts?
Full story:
http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/06/03/ohio.spotting.speeders.ruling/