The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Wednesday, December 1, 1982 Vol.93,No.70 USPS 650-640
Kay gets assignment to regional EPA post
Buddie Malange/KANANI KU Police Officer Kevin Johnson clocked the speed of passing traffic from his patrol car in front of Green Hall yesterday.
Man linked to Tylenol surrenders
poice Fadar
PACING INVOLVES driving alongside a car to clock in speed. That puts two cars barreling at the same speed.
Police have used radar for the last 30 years to detect and identify speeding motorists. But a dilemma has surfaced recently about the efficacy of radar and its use as evidence in court.
And, Denney said, "A stopwatch is not really fair to violators. There are too many human foes."
James Denney, KU's director of police, said radar guns allowed police to clock speeders and make them stop.
"They're invaluable," Denney said. "With radar you don't have to pace speeders or clock them."
"I don't feel sorry for people who get caught by radar. It isn't fair to the rest of the community to do that."
IN A 1979 speeding case in Florida, a Dade County judge refused to allow radar readings to be used as evidence.
Judge Alfred Nesbitt found that radar alone was too unreliable to sustain a speeding conviction. He dismissed 80 radar cases after the defense produced evidence that showed police radar clocking a tree at 64 mph and a house at 30 mph.
Nesbitt threw the cases out because of the
radar is highly accurate," Greeneer said. "And it is better than having a cigar-chomp-sounding affair with them."
The term radar comes from the phrase "radio detection and ranging." Radar guns operate on the Doppler effect by sending out a continuous radar beam with a specific modulation. The radar beam bounces off moving vehicles and back to an antenna.
Depending on the car's direction, the radar beam is bounced back either compressed or stretched. The car's speed is determined by the amount of force generated by the original beam and the bounced reflection.
Stationary radar units emit only one radar signal. Move-mode radar emits a low radar signal that monitors the patrol car's speed and a high signal that calculates the target vehicle's speed. The patrol car's speed is subtracted from the target vehicle's speed and then displayed.
In a report written after the tests, the bureau failed to adopt any official standards, but it did make several recommendations that states have used when setting their standards.
IN 1977, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration conducted tests in conjunction with the National Bureau of Standards on six broiler models and fahrenheit conditions.
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Some states have set up stringent controls on the manufacturing of rails and nuts, and on the
A man wanted for question-
lenol poisoning death, which
cages area and spread fear
of people and to be tope
to the police yesterday.
arch continued for James Lenn. Lewis, named in a warrant, is accused of writing $150 million in the billing $1 to stop the killing."
orties said Kevin Masterson the Tylenol killer, but had linking himself to the mass did he asked to take a tie
held on an Illinois warrant possession of marijuana.
of Lombard, IL, who policed by learning that he was that he lived in a car in the o FBI office in West Los afternoon and surrendered. held on an Illinois warrant
General Tyrone Fahner told a
Chicago that Masterson was
it had "made statements to
hat he had a role in the
er, Fahner said, Masterson
the nast."
It turn out to be someone who things but is not the one hid
porities want to give Master-ist to determine "whether he or non-existent role."
If FBI agent Tony DeLorenzo extrived extraction and will be Illinois. I don't know if it will be."
investigators that Masterson insist Jewel Food Stores for charges against his ex-wife in reportedly blamed for the arrage. Some of the cyanide poisoned Tynell capsules esp.
realized Masterson was in the agent John Hoos said.
appeared here for questioning
pect in the Tylenol case in
idf "He just walked in."
it he was wanted on aission charge in Du Fauge BI detained him overnight at angeles police station before to Los Angeles police in the
Gore, one of the arresting sterson was "so scared" to looking for him that he lived in it for several days.
pressure was so great he
self up." Gorey said.
Masterson as "calm, very as arrested.
scheduled to be arraigned
torists
er must go through before s, according to state laws.
AS and Michigan have develop for radar units. Michigan r units by use by Oct 1, 1988. Michigan has not checked the unit's accuracy. radars unit in use after a automatic lock feature.
officers to receive radar training before operating radar units.
officers to receive radar irating radar units
Maj. Stuart Ellott of the Kansas Highway Patrol said that the state of Kansas did not require standards on radar usage, but that the Highway Patrol did.
The Highway Patrol requires its officers to go through 50 hours of training before operating radar units. The officers are taught how to use and how to visually estimate the speed of vehicles.
*“Regular officers have a considerable amount of training before we allow them to use radar.”*
DENNEY SAID that all of KU's officers had been trained by a representative from Kustom Electronics, manufacturers of KU's only radar unit.
"I'm constantly amused at police departments that get radar and don't train officers to use them."
Jerry Miller, customer services representative of Kustom Electronics of Chanute, one of the nation's two largest manufacturers of radar systems, said he had never been upheld by Kansas courts
Neither Elliott nor Denney can recall any speeding cases successfully challenging radar's accuracy in Ramsay. Each said his department's radar shows above 90 percent in most trials involving radar.
Elliott said if a radar case had ever been
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