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 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 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 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”.

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