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    Default it seems like chicago leo dont really use radar

    hi i live in the south suburbs of chicago, i used to live in the city but i moved recently, everytime i go out to chicago it seems my rd doesnt work. i mean i come up to maybe like 20-30 chicago police cars in a day but my rd dosnt make a peep. than i taught does chicago leos use radar, does any body know what they use.

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    Default Re: it seems like chicago leo dont really use radar

    Quote Originally Posted by chitownthugin
    hi i live in the south suburbs of chicago, i used to live in the city but i moved recently, everytime i go out to chicago it seems my rd doesnt work. i mean i come up to maybe like 20-30 chicago police cars in a day but my rd dosnt make a peep. than i taught does chicago leos use radar, does any body know what they use.
    Not sure about Chicago, but in larger cities like St. Louis, not every police car has radar like in smaller towns. #1 it would cost way too much and #2 those officers are just to busy with calls to bother with speeding tickets.

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    CPD use LIDAR.

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    CPD uses Ka radar all the time on LSD. I have yet to see them use LIDAR, but I've heard that they do and I've seen billboard ads of cops pointing LIDAR guns.

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    Yeah, Chicago PD never really ever enforces speed downtown..and none of their cars have radar except for occasionally you will see a squad car on lakeshore drive with the radar antennas hooked up out of the back rear window.

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    Chicago PD uses Ka-band (decatur genesis?) and LIDAR ProLaser 3.

    nearly all Chicago PD cars that are equipped with radar use externally-mounted antennas. they DO enforce speed limits in downtown with LIDAR. be careful in the northern suburbs too, because they use in-dash antennas that are hard to spot.

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    im in northern suburbs and about 99% of the squad cars have radar...
    evanston, wilmette, kenilworth, glencoe, illinois, highland park

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    Do they use LIDAR in the NW burbs? If so what guns?

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    ProLaser3 and Ultralyte.

 

 

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