Michigan State Police explain their traffic 'blitz' ticketing efforts aimed at increasing safety

The 7 Action News Investigators rode along with the Michigan State Police for one of their recent traffic blitz ticketing efforts.
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[Anonymous-pmjf]

3 years later and people drive more reckless than ever.

[matthewbernstein]

crime is through the roof in detroit but there out writing traffic tickets. seems legit.

[Ibnalyemen]

They should fix the potholes if they really care about the city

[gulfcoastmarc]

The 75-Clark area is regularly traveled at 80+. It's a wide, limited access road that has very little merging traffic. If a driver went 55 or even 65mph there, he would be a rolling chicane. This has nothing to do with safety and everything to do with the Michigan State Highwaymen stealing your money. Every single one of them drive 75 plus when in their personally owned vehicles in that area. It doesn't make you unsafe. It makes them thieves. They have no moral superiority over the street gangs who would rob you if you walked down the surface streets behind the service drive.

[bigbirchwood]

Revenue collectors hard at work to harass and Collect

[ringhunter]

so what the cost of the average ticket

[rickkost]

Taxation and oppression always lead to safety

[aminillinois]

Laser jammers Isn’t illegal to jam police laser in many states but only a some states because it’s banned which makes it illegal. Every other state has different laws and regulations and can do what they wanna do.
Remember: There are no laws vs light and that’s what police laser is, LIGHT. POLICE Radar can read your speeds a half a mile away and police laser can read a vehicle a miles away.
Question many of ask, What is police laser (aka police lidar) ?
LIDAR is an acronym for Light Detection And Ranging.

A police laser gun emits a highly focused beam of invisible light in the near infrared region of light that is centered at a wavelength of 904nm
And is only about 22 inches in diameter at a 1000 feet away from them shooting laser at you. At 1000 feet (300m).
Police laser can be operated from far distances, much farther than police radar, making it extremely difficult for the driver to know that they are being targeted.
Unlike police radar, laser can be operated at such great distances, officers really don’t even have to hide like police radar operators, because it’s extremely hard to spot them from those extreme targeting distances.

[joestolzenberger]

Just making money for the system at the expense of the citizens. How many ways can you screw a citizen.If you want to find a criminal look for someone with a badge-gun-big ego and little knowledge of the laws.

[BeytekinConstructionMachinery]

"Blitz Marathon" those is called in our region. Always funny a German word ( Blitz ) is used in the American language. ;o)

[timothydobrynski]

Thank God for Anti laser priority they can block those stalker lasers easy as hell

[aminillinois]

You tell many people are uneducated about police devices and detections. For one police uses laser especially in high urban areas. That is nothing but a lidar gun. LIDAR which is laser guns are designed to capture speeding vehicles and not allowing you to adjust your speeds down.
The bad situation about using a radar detector by itself because it does not give warnings on police laser. Which means if you have no warnings a police is ahead shooting laser you’ll never know until you either get popped see them at last minute which would be too late. Police laser is very very quick and very narrow, so even at a half a mile away from that officer shooting your vehicles the diameter of circle is 36 inches. The closer you are the smaller the circle hitting you. There’s no way I will ever go back using a regular radar detector regardless of it cost $600 or more. Because if you think about it all it does is make noise superior noise, 😆
What good is a radar detector without a shield to block them from hitting me with laser or radar. Something that makes you go

Laser guns generate revenue, that’s thousands of dollars each year why because it allows us not to hit the brakes when speeding. Like police radar which is 6 traffic lanes wide your able to drive fast but long as you stay behind others is when your safe but laser is nothing but pin pointer. Police departments make thousands off of millions of people speeding. Look around as you drive people do not believe in using protection period but they speed like there’s no cops around.

[thomasl]

Is it me or does the MSP have an unprofessional look to the worse looking uniform of any state police or highway patrol agency in the please change your appearance.

[Ted-hd]

somebodys doing 90 right now. tickets don't correct problems. there has been speeding since cars were invented and always will. cash grab