Beating the Radar Rap: Tested Techniques for Fighting Electronic Speed Entrapment, and Winning

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Summary: Know your rights
Review: I am not an avocate of exceeding the posted speed limit as it is breaking the law. That said I like every other citizen of this country does just that, some more often than others.

This book is about knowing your rights. If the officer issuing the ticket can be tested in court and fails...shame on them for not knowing the laws they are enforcing. I have had tickets in a the Cook County Court outside of Chicago Illinois (Markham to be exact) and it is a sham. Let's just say that speeding tickets are 5% enforcement of the laws and 95% about revenue. I am friends with an officer who has admitted to me on numerous occasions that there are goals (wouldn't go so far as to say quotas) on traffic violations so don't believe that they don't have them.

To all of us who speed, it is breaking the law, but the other side is not playing fair. The cops lie, the judges are all about the $$$ and the system hopes you don't know anything so you pay your ticket and waste more time and money in traffic court. Insurance companies love this excuse to increase your rates and/or make it difficult to find coverage elsewhere. Know your rights and use them to their fullest. If you succeed, you likely know more about the laws and the equipment than the officer who wrote the ticket and possibly the judge. If the officer knew more than we have to take our medicine.

To the officers reviewing this book...it only works if you don't know the laws, regulations and the rights of citizens. To the officers who are underinformed, you SHOULD be embarrased in court and to those who are knowledgable, THANK YOU for taking your position seriously.

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Summary: HELPFUL BUT YOU NEED TO BE A LAWYER TO UNDERSTAND IT
Review: Overall, I liked the book, but feel it was very technical in the information presented. There are lots of technical things talked about that are confusing and difficuilt to understand. The book prepares you for court, however, from my experience, you usually dont get much time from the courts to present the case. Most of my experiences in court have the court rushing things along and they did not allow sufficient time to question the officer. I have been lucky in beating my tickets because the police officer did not show up, and our state law helped me out also because the officer did not have calibration records and Connecticut requires the police to have them. Beating the Radar Rap is worth the money spent though, just be prepared to read a book of scientific mumbo jumbo.

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Summary: Not Very Good...
Review: This book is very hard to read and understand. Its full of all kind of legal and technical stuff. It does have helpful information but I found another book here on Amazon that read better and was full of great useful information. The book is called An Educated Guide To Speeding Tickets How to Beat and Avoid them, the author is Richard Wallace, the book is great and I bought it here on Amazon. You should to if you get a speeding ticket and need to fight it. The book seems to work based on the other reviews I have seen. I have not used it to beat a ticket but will should I ever get stopped. The author used to be a cop to! Thats Cool! This, of course, is just my opinion. You decide.