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re: Back the Blue: Why do cops use unmarked cars to enforce speed limits?
Posted on 4/8/26 at 12:36 pm to LNCHBOX
Posted on 4/8/26 at 12:36 pm to LNCHBOX
Just don't speed near the crossovers and you'll be fine. Usually they only go after cars going above 70mph on causeway.
I usually just set cc to 60mph and camp the right lane.
I usually just set cc to 60mph and camp the right lane.
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Posted on 4/8/26 at 12:36 pm to weagle1999
Because 90% of cops are stupid dipshits who barely graduated high school.
Posted on 4/8/26 at 12:37 pm to Napoleon
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Just don't speed near the crossovers and you'll be fine. Usually they only go after cars going above 70mph on causeway.
I usually just set cc to 60mph and camp the right lane.
Set your cruise on 73 and you will never be bothered.
Posted on 4/8/26 at 1:13 pm to weagle1999
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Wouldn’t more people slow down and everyone ‘be safer’ if more drivers saw the police cars enforcing the speed limit?
Because it is about making money. If it was about safety, they would suspend your license.
Posted on 4/8/26 at 1:42 pm to weagle1999
Because they need the ticket money so that they can pay for half the department to rack up 2000 hours of overtime annually which hours were spent.....writing tickets because they need the ticket money so that.......
Posted on 4/8/26 at 2:09 pm to Jmcc64
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around here, they don't . that said, with the lower profile light bars, it's harder to discern if they are cop cars from a distance.
if i see an SUV with some sort of an attachment to the roof of their car, i immediately slow down.
funny thing, this happened the other day, i see a white SUV with a roof attachment and i slow down.
when i finally got close enough, i saw it was a Buick SUV with a roof rack.
Posted on 4/8/26 at 2:44 pm to weagle1999
To protect and serve....their interests.
They also hide with radar. They are far more effective when they are visible and driving themselves....but stopping speeding isn't the goal, writing tickets is the goal.
They also hide with radar. They are far more effective when they are visible and driving themselves....but stopping speeding isn't the goal, writing tickets is the goal.
Posted on 4/8/26 at 2:45 pm to fareplay
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If you don’t speed excessively, this is a non problem
It certainly is because its far less effective than them being visible and actually deterring speeding. They can sit in plain view and slow down thousands or hide and write one ticket.....obviously writing tickets is the goal.
Posted on 4/8/26 at 2:47 pm to UserAlreadyExists
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Part of it is revenue generation I’m sure, especially in those random small town speed traps, and part of it is probably the idea of knowing they’re around but not being able to see them makes you have to drive more cautiously
An empty cop car sitting in plain sight in a small town or on the side of the interstate will slow drivers down far more than that car being unmarked or hidden and the cop writing a couple of tickets every hour. Cameras will do a better job than anything a cop can do as far as speeding and they don't have to have a gun to do it.
Posted on 4/8/26 at 2:48 pm to LemmyLives
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In North Dallas, they're all over the place.
Oh where I live they are all over the place
god yall just make up stuff. 
Posted on 4/8/26 at 2:53 pm to AwgustaDawg
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but stopping speeding isn't the goal, writing tickets is the goal.
This is correct. Which is why all the "just don't break the law" posts are not addressing the OP's point. If the goal is to provide safety - which is always what they say - having cars patrolling brightly in plain sight deters speeding much more than one dude hiding behind a bush waiting to write a ticket. There's no logical argument against that.
Posted on 4/8/26 at 3:03 pm to LSU1SLU
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Why do cops use unmarked cars to enforce speed limits
They haven't, don't, and won't
Drive down I-12 in Covington/Mandeville and you will see an unmarked blue Camaro with a State Trooper running radar on people just trying to get home from work.
Posted on 4/8/26 at 3:05 pm to LSU1SLU
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Oh where I live they are all over the place god yall just make up stuff.
Well, I drove to Houston-McKinney-Prosper and back last weekend and I saw it. It stood out because of how many I noticed belonging to different jurisdictions.
So yeah, totally made up.
Posted on 4/8/26 at 3:06 pm to AwgustaDawg
I agree with you
Posted on 4/8/26 at 3:21 pm to weagle1999
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Or, hide their marked cars behind signs, buildings, and shrubs to run radar / laser and pull people over?
Speeds limits are supposedly there to keep us safe. Wouldn’t more people slow down and everyone ‘be safer’ if more drivers saw the police cars enforcing the speed limit?
Because they know that many drivers just go the speed limit when they see a cop or get notified of one around and when it’s clear they will floor it.
They should do both with unmarked cars used more to catch the ones way too fast, because the ones constantly going way over the speed limit are not usually going to get caught by a visible cop (or not caught nearly in proportion to the amount of time they are going 15 to 20 mph or more over the speed limit), but the one time slip up or not realizing speed limit dropped and going just fast enough to make it worth the cops time will end getting a ticket for maybe one of the few times he or she makes that mistake.
If they spent more time hidden on roads where some are hauling arse at night most these drivers wouldn’t be insurable after awhile.
This post was edited on 4/8/26 at 3:26 pm
Posted on 4/8/26 at 3:24 pm to weagle1999
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Wouldn’t more people slow down and everyone ‘be safer’ if more drivers saw the police cars enforcing the speed limit?
People will speed no matter what. Marked or unmarked you’re still going to have the a-hole going 15+ in the left lane slam on his brakes the second he sees blue lights causing a phantom traffic jam.
Posted on 4/8/26 at 3:39 pm to weagle1999
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Speeds limits are supposedly there to keep us safe.
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to keep us safe
Ding ding. You have your answer.
Posted on 4/8/26 at 3:54 pm to weagle1999
Bc they are hard up for funding in those rural towns so need those dollars.
Posted on 4/8/26 at 3:55 pm to weagle1999
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Speeds limits are supposedly there to keep us safe
They are there to collect tax revenue.
Posted on 4/8/26 at 4:10 pm to weagle1999
Can't do it in Georgia.
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