Need a radar

[zr1]

Chandler uses laser quite a bit. A news article from a couple years ago says they have ProLaser II's and were purchasing ProLaser III's.

Gilbert uses laser quite a bit. I got lit up yesterday morning, but I was doing the PSL at the time.

Seriously? In three and a half years in Phoenix, I was only tagged with laser three times. Once in Chandler, once by DPS, and once in Tempe (I think--I was very new to the area at the time).

I work in Phoenix and I have yet to see laser used there. Same with DPS. I've only seen Ka with those two.

Chandler, I haven't seen laser in use. A May 2005 newspaper article talks about Chandler purchasing ProLaser III's.

http://www.azcentral.com/community/c...laser08Z6.html

In Gilbert, I've seen members of their "traffic unit" out using laser quite a bit. I don't know the model, but it's almost always the BMW or ST1300 bikes and generally between 7a-10a in my part of town. The one this week was on Elliot just East of Greenfield. I've also seen them on Greenfield Rd. a lot as well as Williams Field close to Lindsay.

http://www.ci.gilbert.az.us/police/traffic.cfm

[Esoterica]

All the years I lived in Chandler I never even seen them doing any traffic enforcement. Come to think of it all I can ever remember seeing them do was running around franticly on like New Years Eve nights looking for people firing guns up in the air.

I always thought it was kind of nice having an invisible police department while still keeping crime levels in very good check. Looking at the area on google satellite now though it looks like its gotten a little larger than when I use to live there so I imagine they likely had no choice but to increase enforcement since the good old days.

I just remember Scottsdale always being such a pain in the ass with their cameras, smog vans and endless BS that everyone there seemed to hate and complain about yet they just kept doing it and even increased it. Someone even said they have cameras now on the Dreamy Draw, I remember when that wasn't even there at all and they just opened it up with all those retarded pots and things up on the wall. Did they replace those things with cameras now or something?

[tjbender]

I've only seen the one laser trap in Chandler, but bleepin'-a was it a big one! One cop standing on the curb running laser (in 110-degree heat, I'd be calling in people going 5 over too!), then five cruisers lined up in a parking lot right behind him waiting for him to point out cars, with eight more cruisers up the street writing the ticket for their hapless victims. Only time I've ever seen any serious effort at speed enforcement in Chandler.

I do, however, have a good story about the lack of speed enforcement in that city. I was doing 15 over on Chandler Blvd. midday a while back, and a Chandler PD car appeared behind me. I was convinced I was toast because I (1.) wasn't running my detector, and (2.) wasn't paying attention to my six until I saw the big black cruiser in my rearview. Instead of pulling me over, he merely passed me, got in front, tapped his brakes, and gave the wave of "slow down." I gave a sheepish wave of "sorry," back to him, and gtfo of Chandler before he changed his mind about the friendly reminder.

[zr1]

I can ever remember seeing them do was running around franticly on like New Years Eve nights looking for people firing guns up in the air.

They could've saved time and just camped out near the Pecos Lounge

I just remember Scottsdale always being such a pain in the ass with their cameras, smog vans and endless BS

Scottsdale's still pretty much like that. I see radar vans around there as well as Paradise Valley. As for the 101 cameras with the embedded sensors...ugh! First in the nation and all, but...ugh! Though I wonder about running the 101 down the left side of the yellow line on the shoulder if the embedded sensors would pick up a motorcycle...say...a red one...with the rider crouched low...the tachometer signaling that the gear-driven cams are wailing near their design limits. eh...just wondering.