This article was published in the Philadelphia Daily News on March 21, 2005. In short, it details Motorola’s findings on the Pennsylvania State Police’s problems with their in-car computer systems repeatedly crashing.

State police at one time believed the radar guns were prone to malfunction only when plugged into the cigarette lighter of 2003 or 2004 Ford police cars. The Motorola report, though, says any Crown Victoria police car’s electrical system can be trouble, especially in cars with older batteries.

The report concludes that the array of police lights, radios, computers and other power equipment overloads the cars’ electrical system and introduces electrical noise, which interferes with the computers and radar guns.

So, as you can see, Motorola basically states that the Ford Crown Victoria’s used by the Pennsylvania State Police are just overloaded with electrical equipment that causes numerous problems, including introducing electrical noise which can cause interference and make the GHS radar guns produce false readings, but wait, the PSP continue to state that all of these studies prove, without a shadow of a doubt, that the guns are accurate. Why are these reports stating and showing the complete opposite?

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This article was published on the Morning Call on January 25, 2005. This is a further follow-up of the Josh Losito case. In short, he lost his case because the trooper was driving a 2001 Ford Crown Victoria and not a newer model, which the ban focused on.

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This article was posted on nj.com on January 15, 2005. This is a follow-up to the Josh Losito DUI and speeding case involving GHS radar.

To keep things short, the issue at hand was that GHS radar units were banned from use during from September 3, 2003 to December 14, 2003 in 2003 and newer models of Ford Crown Victoria’s and Josh Losito was clocked with a GHS radar gun on December 4, 2003 while the guns were banned from use.

The trooper that stopped Josh was driving a 2001 model Ford Crown Victoria, so the ban did not apply to him. A slight technicality, but it cost a win.

Frankly I think if there was a ban, it should have been a wide-spread ban regardless of the year of the vehicle because, as John Timothy Shingara stated, the problems occurred in Crown Victoria models of varying years.

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