This article was published in the Philadelphia Daily News on December 14, 2004. It discusses House Majority Leader Sam Smith and his concerns about Genesis Handheld Stationary (GHS) radar.

It further states how the University of Pittsburgh findings contradict with the findings of three previous studies and how Marlin Mickle states the study was never done to show the guns accuracy, even though the Pennsylvania State Police continue to state that it does show the guns are accurate.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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I had made a written request to Decatur Electronics along with several phone calls to try and obtain additional information on the Gensis Handheld Stationary (GHS) radar scandal in Pennsylvania. That was a fun task in itself and I spoke with a very rude woman who hung the phone up on me when I questioned her about the problems.

This is a document that they sent me in the mail. In short, it states the Pennsylvania State Police know more about the problem than they do and that they should be contacted directly. So I filled out a Right-To-Know Law request form (actually had to do it several times), and didn’t get any other information other than to go to the Pennsylvania State Police Web site that contained nothing but broken links.

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This article was published in the Philadelphia Daily News on March 9, 2004. It outlines some steps you can take to fight your ticket if you have been clocked with Genesis Handheld Stationary (GHS) radar.

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This was the first and original article reporting and describing the problems with Genesis Handheld Stationary (GHS) radar. It was published by the Philadelphia Daily News on March 9, 2004.

This article describes how the Pennsylvania State Police discovered there was a problem with their GHS radar units, were offered a FREE fix by the manufacturer (Decatur Electronics), declined the fix and continued to use the faulty guns to this day.

The article also touches on John Timothy Shingara’s testimony and his own knowledge of working with GHS radar. He even describes a similar problem with GHS radar giving false readings in 1999, which the Pennsylvania State Police and manufacturer fixed by installing better filters without the publics knowledge.

This article also has some nice pictures showing how false readings may occur.

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This is the final report from the University of Pittsburgh when they conducted their tests on the Genesis Handheld Stationary (GHS) radar unit. After filing a Right-To-Know Law Request form to obtain this document, I was instructed I could get it from the Pennsylvania State Polices’ Web site. I went there and the link was dead. It has never worked. I obtained this document through other means and provide it here for others.

The University of Pittsburgh’s tests show numerous problems with the radar gun and how it was able to generate false readings from things such as cell phones and watches. They even obtained some completely random and spurious readings which they had no explanation for and were unable to reproduce.

This study also presents some new potential problems and/or reasons to false readings…the very computer system located in the vehicle - IIMS - (Incident Information Management System) installed by Motorola, however the study did not perform any further testing on this scenario. Motorola themselves performed their own study and report and stated:

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, not only does the Pittsburgh study point to IIMS being a root of the problem, Motorola themselves states it is a problem! The sad thing about the University of Pittsburgh study is that the Pennsylvania State Police actually used it to show that there were no problems with the Genesis Handheld Stationary radar guns. Read the report and you will see how it clearly states and shows otherwise. The Pennsylvania State Police used it as their last and final resort to end the “Radargate Scandal”.

Download the report here.