For approximately 2 months, Richard S. Weinstock issued 13 speeding citations that would never hold up in court. Not only would they not hold up in court, but nearly every citation for each month had the same clocked speed. I find that very hard to believe and it appears that Trooper Richard S. Weinstock was doing the dirty work to fill the coffers or just being some egotistical, power hungry asshole.

02/15/2010 – Citation No. T0019810-0 – 59MPH in 50MPH zone – Plead Guilty
02/15/2010 – Citation No. T0019811-1 – 57MPH in 50MPH zone – Plead Guilty
02/15/2010 – Citation No. T0039503-2 – 58MPH in 50MPH zone – Plead Guilty
02/15/2010 – Citation No. T0039504-3 – 57MPH in 50MPH zone – Plead Guilty
02/15/2010 – Citation No. T0039506-5 – 58MPH in 50MPH zone – Plead Guilty
02/20/2010 – Citation No. T0041161-1 – 58MPH in 50MPH zone – Found Not Guilty
02/20/2010 – Citation No. T0041165-5 – 58MPH in 50MPH zone – Found Not Guilty
03/09/2010 – Citation No. T0072238-5 – 53MPH in 45MPH zone – Plead Guilty
03/09/2010 – Citation No. T0072241-1 – 53MPH in 45MPH zone – Plead Guilty
03/09/2010 – Citation No. T0072246-6 – 54MPH in 45MPH zone – Plead Guilty
03/25/2010 – Citation No. T0087444-0 – 54MPH in 45MPH zone – Plead Guilty
03/25/2010 – Citation No. T0087439-2 – 54MPH in 45MPH zone – Plead Guilty
03/25/2010 – Citation No. T0087430-0 – 54MPH in 45MPH zone – Plead Guilty

Title 75 Subsection 3368(c)(4) of the Pennsylvania Vehicle code specifically states the following:

no person may be convicted upon evidence obtained through the use of devices authorized by paragraph (3) in an area where the legal speed limit is less than 55 miles per hour if the speed recorded is less than ten miles per hour in excess of the legal speed limit

All of the citations issued were less than ten miles per hour in excess of the legal speed limit which was less than 55 miles per hour. The actual citations also have no indication that they were in a school or active work zone, which is the only way these would hold up. Richard S. Weinstock surely must have known these were bogus tickets, so why was he issuing them? Perhaps he had a nice racket setup with Michael G. Dotzel to give out bogus tickets in hopes that those cited did not know the law and would just pay up? Not only does Richard Weinstock not no the law, but neither does Michael G. Dotzel of Magisterial District 11-3-07, who willingly convicted the cited. Certainly these tickets should have been tossed out along with Richard Weinstock. Only 2 motorists out of the 13 apparently new the law and were smart enough to challenge it. The rest paid the bogus tickets and most likely had their insurance raised due to it. In total, $1,384 in fines were paid and wrongfully collected.

BONUS: Not only does Richard S. Weinstock issue bogus speeding tickets, but apparently some think he is a sex crazed pervert who chose to sexually discriminate a female Pennsylvania State Police employee by the name of Laura Zelinski in 1999. Once, Weinstock put his hand on Zelinski’s leg and propositioned her. Another time, he described sexual acts in graphic detail. One day he told her he could see her underwear. And on another occasion he told her, “If I can see down your sweater, everyone else can.” After Zelinski complained to a supervisor, she was transferred shortly after and filed a sexual discrimination lawsuit. You can read all about it here in the court document: Zelinski v. PSP

How the hell is this guy allowed to be a Pennsylvania State Police Trooper with all of this blatant misconduct and why is Michael G. Dotzel allowed to run an illegal speeding ticket racket?

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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Again, this gag order should have never been imposed to begin with. If anything it should be seen as retaliation to the Philadelphia Daily News, all the lawyers and other various news sources reporting on the problem.

Why the gag order if the Pennsylvania State Police have nothing to hide? They obviously had something to hide and internal memos show that.

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Now if the GHS radar guns are so accurate, why would the Pennsylvania State Police request to have a gag order in the case to prevent newspaper reporters and lawyers from releasing documents to the public?

Simple answer: They don’t want the public to know the truth about the problems with their GHS radar guns. The Philadelphia Daily News was simply doing their job by reporting their findings and research to the public. Obviously the state police do not want the public to know about the problems when they are making $26 million a year on speeding tickets alone and all of the tickets that earned the money could be contested due to faulty equipment.

This gag order should have never been issued. The gag order was eventually lifted and Judge Sylvia Rambo recused herself from the case. I wonder why?

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In short, this response is the same thing the State Police has been saying all along…the GHS radar guns are accurate. This response details the actions that the State Police took to correct the problem (Read: what they did in attempts to cover-up the problem because the public found out).

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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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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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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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Jack Lewis states the following:

In order to accept this incredible conspiracy theory, one must believe all of the following:

• That the manufacturer, Guth Laboratories and the University of Pittsburgh would risk their professional reputations and the future of their agencies by knowingly lying about the results of their tests.

• That Pennsylvania State Troopers would knowingly issue fraudulent speeding citations that would not stand up in court, thus risking their reputations and careers.

• That thousands of police nationwide who use Decatur Genesis handheld radar units are part of a national conspiracy to defraud the public.

Now here’s my take on that.

1) I don’t believe the manufacturer, Guth Labs, or the University of Pittsburgh lied about the results of their tests. Look at the University of Pittsburgh report and you will see it shows there are numerous problems with GHS radar. How can the Pennsylvania State Police use the University of Pittsburgh study to show GHS radar is accurate when the professor conducting the study, Marlin Mickle, stated himself that the tests did not prove the GHS radar guns were accurate? If anything the test shows how inaccurate the guns are with numerous ways to obtain false readings. I believe Guth Labs and the manufacturer, Decatur Electronics, would be risking even more by not lying. What company would want to admit that there is a major problem with a product that generates billions of dollars in revenue for police departments nationwide? If Decatur admitted the problems, nobody would want to purchase or use their products because they don’t work correctly. Instead of admitting the problem, let police departments use the products blindly, knowing that they aren’t accurate, but knowing that they will still generate billions in revenue and John Q. Public won’t be able to contest it anyway. Guth Labs certifies the units regularly and the units are on Pennsylvania’s approved radar listing. Fighting the accuracy of radar is damn near impossible as long as all of the state requirements are met.

2) I don’t know about others, but where I’m from and the courts there, the judges and magistrates will always side with the police. You are basically guilty unless you can prove you are innocent, and even if you can prove you are innocent, the judge/magistrate may still side with the police. That’s how corrupt the court system is. Unless you hire a lawyer, you are pretty much screwed. State troopers know this, magistrates and judges know this, and they all work together to fill their coffers and quotas. I’ve had a state trooper lie in court two separate times and had evidence to show he was lying and it was still his word against mine and his held up. That’s just the way it is, and I don’t think State Police or any police for that matter really care about risking their reputation by giving some guy/girl a ticket that they know they won’t be able to fight anyway.

3) When you are using a faulty device that is on an approved radar list, you are defrauding the public. This isn’t a national conspiracy. This is how police departments make money. I mean when you are making over $26 million a year on speeding tickets alone, I really don’t think police departments care if they are defrauding the public. It’s such a large income stream that as long as the radar is on the approved list, it doesn’t matter if faults come up later on just as long as the public doesn’t know about them.

There truly needs to be an organization, agency or something that will step up – Re-evaluate the guns and all previous studies and have it removed from the approved radar listing in Pennsylvania. To look at the facts of the studies that were conducted, it is ludicrous that these radar units can still be used. The Genesis Handheld Stationary model was replaced with a newer Genesis Handheld Directional model several years ago, however, departments are still allowed to use GHS.

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