Posts Tagged ‘GHS’
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
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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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
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.
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
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.
Download Decatur’s statement here.
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
This article was published in the Philadelphia Daily News on March 10, 2004. It is their response to Colonel Jeffrey B. Miller and his response to their original article (some back and forth battling). In short, this article refutes Jeffrey B. Miller’s claims that GHS radar is accurate.
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
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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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
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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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
This press release from the Pennsylvania State Police was their response after the University of Pittsburgh evaluation of the Genesis Handheld Stationary (GHS) radar unit. In short, the Pennsylvania State Police state the study proved the radar units are accurate.
Marlin Mickle, the professor and an author of the University of Pittsburgh report, stated that his report did not say the guns gave accurate readings, only that the tests he conducted did not show the alternator was causing phantom speed readings. Mickle also stated that the Pennsylvania State Police never told him about its own tests that identified the alternator as the problem or of the problems with the Motorola laptops.
How the Pennsylvania State Police twist the results into their own liking when the obvious results are right in the report and the professor conducting the report states himself that the tests didn’t prove any accuracy is beyond my knowledge. Read the report yourself and see the truth and the problems. The Pennsylvania State Police released this press release in a further attempt to discredit John Timothy Shingara and the real problems with the Genesis Handheld Stationary (GHS) radar guns.
Download the press release here.
Tags: GHS, john timothy shingara, marlin mickle, pennsylvania state police, press release, radar, report, study, university of pittsburgh
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Monday, April 28th, 2008
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.
Tags: genesis handheld stationary, GHS, IIMS, marlin mickle, Motorola, radar, report, study, university of pittsburgh
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Monday, April 28th, 2008
Here it is…the original transcript from Cumberland County v. Brent Hanlin in which John Timothy Shingara, who at the time was working in the Technical Support Division of the Pennsylvania State Police performing various radar and electronics duties, blew the whistle and let the public know the truth about Genesis Handheld Stationary (GHS) radar and its’ problems.
This very testimony cost John his career. He is currently fighting his own civil battles due to the retaliation he faced after testifying truthfully.
Download the transcript here.
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Monday, April 28th, 2008
This document was originally obtained from the Pennsylvania State Police Department’s Web site, which surprise, is no longer available or listed on their site. I have archived it to PDF for others to use. This document states that in September 2003, the Pennsylvania State Police Department temporarily suspended the use of all Genesis Handheld Stationary (GHS) radar units in in its 2003 and 2004 model Crown Victoria police cruisers after learning that numbers were being displayed on the units’ readouts that did not correspond to measuring a vehicle’s speed.
Tests conducted by State Police, by an independent, certified facility, and by the manufacturer determined that the isolated readings were caused by frequency noise produced by the alternators in the 2003 and 2004 model Crown Victoria cruisers. The alternators in those vehicles produce a different frequency noise than alternators in the Department’s other vehicles.
Funny thing is that this original testing report was never released to the public, Decatur Electronics offered free battery packs to correct the problem (don’t need to plug in to cigarette lighter which was causing RF) and the Pennsylvania State Police, for unknown reasons (really they didn’t want the public to contend the 26 million/year they were making), declined to have the battery packs installed FOR FREE and continued to use the faulty radar guns.
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