This article was published on the Morning Call on December 11, 2004. This further discusses Josh Losito’s fight with GHS radar. He claims the radar units were banned at the time he was pulled over. He was pulled over on December 3, 2003 by a trooper in a 2001 Ford Crown Victoria. He retained a lawyer, Jason Jenkins of Souderton.
The ban was apparently only for 2003 and 2004 Ford Crown Victoria’s. Also contains additional John Timothy Shingara information and testimony.
This article was published in the Philadelphia Daily News on December 11, 2004. It describes how a man charged with speeding and drunk driving attempted to have part of his case thrown out due to the use of Genesis Handheld Stationary (GHS) radar.
Now I don’t condone drunk driving, but he did have a case if he was initially only pulled over for speeding. He hired a lawyer, Jason Jenkins, and subpoenaed John Timothy Shingara to testify. A ruling was not made at the time of the article.
This article was published in the Pittsburgh Tribune Review on December 10, 2004. It discusses how the Pennsylvania State Police continue to use the University of Pittsburgh Study as proof positive that the Genesis Handheld Stationary (GHS) radar guns are accurate, when the report shows otherwise.
Not only does the report show how easy it is to obtain false readings from objects such as cell phones and watches, but Marlin Mickle, the professor conducting the study, stated the following:
“The goal of our study was not to ascertain the accuracy of the radar gun.”
Why are state police using the University of Pittsburgh study exactly for that then? I’ll tell you the answer…they were grasping at straws and this was their last one. They were so brazen, they didn’t even notify Marlin Mickle about their reasoning and purpose of the study or past reported problems. Marlin Mickle had no idea Radargate was even going on and that he was being used as a pawn in the grand scheme of things.
This article was published by the Philadelphia Daily News on December 9, 2004. It is a rather humorous and witty article written by John Baer. Yet again, this reiterates the problems with Genesis Handheld Stationary (GHS) radar and states that the University of Pittsburgh report shows how the guns obtain false readings. Also pokes fun at the study for not testing in a real world environment and making statements/claims without actually testing them.
This article was published by the Philadelphia Daily News on December 9, 2004. In short, along with the Pennsylvania State Police, Governor Ed Rendell also denies any problems with Genesis Handheld Stationary (GHS) radar despite claims from State Troopers, internal State Police memos documenting the problem, and various reports and studies that showed there were problems.
The state inspector general put a report together on the alleged cover-up of the radar gun problems and gave it to Rendell in April 2004, however, this report has not been released to the public.
This article also discusses the Pennsylvania State Police and their various sex scandals and how they attempted to cover those up as well. This article also contains additional quotes from State Troopers claiming problems with GHS radar. Internal memos show that Cpl. William LaTorre wrote the following to a superior in an e-mail:
…pointed the gun at the road, the sky, trees and, finally, a moving car. The gun said all were going 78 mph. He used the gun properly, he said in an e-mail. “The problem is that if a member doesn’t catch the constant reading, he’ll think a vehicle…is actually traveling that speed,” wrote LaTorre, who was in the Avondale, Chester County barracks at the time. His e-mail went all the way to the head of the Bureau of Patrol.
So there is documentation from State Troopers themselves that state the reported problems with GHS radar, yet the Pennsylvania State Police continues to deny any problems. Why are troopers reporting these issues then…are they just making them up? I don’t think so!
This article was published by the Philadelphia Daily News on December 8, 2004. This brief article describes how the Pennsylvania State Police suspected that the Philadelphia Daily News knew about the GHS radar problems in early December 2003, before the Daily News even began asking questions. Internal State Police memos show that they Pennsylvania State Police attempted to “craft” possible responses to various radar questions should Nicole Egan, Philadelphia Daily News reporter who covered most of the GHS radar problems, call and ask.
An internal memo stated:
On Jan. 7, 2004, when the Daily News first posed questions to the state police spokesman about the radar problems, the Spokesman e-mailed the questions to superiors with this comment: “We have been waiting for these questions and I think we already have positioned ourselves correctly on this issue. “I would like to have a meeting involving the appropriate representatives from Patrol, Tech Services and Legal to obtain input so that the Public Information Office can craft a response to Egan. The Governor’s Press Office already has indicated that it wants to see our response before it is sent.”
This article was published by the Philadelphia Daily News on December 8, 2004. This article details all of the problems with GHS radar again and has all of the denials from the Pennsylvania State Police. Sad part about that is that there are internal State Police memos that document the reported problems. Statements such as the following show that the Pennsylvania State Police knew about the numerous problems with GHS radar, but wanted to keep them secret from the public:
Lt. Gerald Roberts, assistant director of the state police Patrol Services Division, argued in a February 1999 memo to his boss that the radar guns should be fixed one at a time during routine service to keep the problems secret. “If the radar sets were all recalled at once under the announcement of a problem, the inappropriate media attention would cause undue concern to the public and could potentially undermine our speed enforcement efforts for the past year,” wrote Roberts.
OK, so there are no problems with GHS radar, but lets fix them during routine maintenance so nobody knows…yeah, then there are no problems. WRONG.
This article was published by the Philadelphia Daily News on April 22, 2004. John Timothy Shingara faced various retaliatory actions after testifying and revealing the problems of Genesis Handheld Stationary (GHS) radar. Eventually he was suspended for 30 working days without pay and without benefits, which is the most severe punishment the Pennsylvania State Police will give someone before firing them.
This shows the types of actions the State Police have gone through in order to keep their GHS radar problem a secret. Testifying truthfully about the problem has cost Timothy Shingara his job. This is not something that should happen in America or anywhere in the world.
This article was published in the Philadelphia Daily News on March 30, 2004. This is another article describing the retaliation John Timothy Shingara faced for testifying, thus forcing him to file a civil lawsuit.
This article was published by USA Today on March 29, 2004. It discusses the various retaliatory actions John Timothy Shingara faced after testifying truthfully about Genesis Handheld Stationary (GHS) radar.