This article was published in the Philadelphia Daily News on September 14, 2005. It discusses how the Pennsylvania State Police were aware of the numerous problems that were causing false readings with the GHS radar guns, but never gave any of that, what would be, useful information to the University of Pittsburgh when they conducted their study.

The state police released numerous press releases stating that the University of Pittsburgh and other studies proved the guns were accurate, when the studies showed otherwise.

Marlin Mickle, an author of the University of Pittsburgh report, later told the Daily News that his report did not say the guns give accurate readings.

Mickle also stated the state police never told him about its own tests that identified the alternator as the problem or of the problems with the Motorola laptops.

And here we go again…Why do the Pennsylvania State Police continue to say the reports show the guns are accurate when the very people conducting the studies/tests state that they didn’t show they were accurate? Lies and deceit!

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This article was published in the Philadelphia Daily News on April 12, 2005. In short, the Daily News’ plea to lift the gag order imposed by Judge Sylvia Rambo was denied.

Judge Sylvia Rambo stated the following:

“The discovery materials the PSP (Pennsylvania State Police) has disclosed to plaintiff, if released to the media, threaten to prejudice the public from which jurors will be selected.”

Alright, so how is the public knowing the facts about the matter going to prejudice them if they are jurors? If anything, it makes them more educated jurors. The sad part is that the PSP continue to spew their own version of the story on their Web site. Is that not prejudicing the public?

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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 by the Philadelphia Daily News on December 28, 2004. It’s a brief article that states attorneys representing the Daily News filed a motion to have the gag ordered, which was imposed by Judge Sylvia Rambo, lifted in the GHS radar gun scandal case.

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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This article was published in the Philadelphia Daily News on December 16, 2004. It discusses how Judge Sylvia Rambo issued a wide-ranging gag order that prohibits lawyers from releasing documents that surface during the discovery process in the ever-growing radar gun scandal.

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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This response was posted on the Pennsylvania State Police Web site on December 12, 2004. It is Col. Jeffrey B. Miller’s response to an editorial that was published in the Patriot-News. Unfortunately I never obtained that article.

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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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 is a letter to the editor written by Pennsylvania State Police Press Secretary, Jack Lewis on December 9, 2004. Poor Jack must have been heart-broken because this was never published. He attempts to discredit Nicole Weisensee-Egan and states that the whole thing is one big incredible conspiracy theory.

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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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!

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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.”

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