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 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.

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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.