Private Driveway catching

What is the name of your state? Illinois

Today I got a speeding ticket from an officier standing in a residential private driveway clocking drivers as they pass by with a radar. My question is ....are police allowed to stand on a private driveway to clock people?

Thanks in advance,

edik said:

What is the name of your state? Illinois

Today I got a speeding ticket from an officier standing in a residential private driveway clocking drivers as they pass by with a radar. My question is ....are police allowed to stand on a private driveway to clock people?

Thanks in advance,

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Wait, was he standing or sitting? And was he using a radar gun or a stopwatch/clock?

edik said:

What is the name of your state? Illinois

Today I got a speeding ticket from an officier standing in a residential private driveway clocking drivers as they pass by with a radar. My question is ....are police allowed to stand on a private driveway to clock people?

Thanks in advance,

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Yes, they can. If the owner of the property doesn't want the officer there, that is a an unrelated matter between the property owner and the department.

- Carl

CdwJava said:

Yes, they can. If the owner of the property doesn't want the officer there, that is a an unrelated matter between the property owner and the department.

- Carl

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You're not helping my setup by giving him the answer right away ya know

You Are Guilty said:

Wait, was he standing or sitting? And was he using a radar gun or a stopwatch/clock?

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He was sitting in a standing still car and was using a radar to clock me

CdwJava said:

Yes, they can. If the owner of the property doesn't want the officer there, that is a an unrelated matter between the property owner and the department.

- Carl

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Thanks....... figured as much. I was just wondering why he got all defensive when I said something about clocking me from a private drive way.

edik said:

He was sitting in a standing still car and was using a radar to clock me

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If that's your only defense, bring your checkbook to court.

- Carl

edik said:

What is the name of your state? Illinois

Today I got a speeding ticket from an officier standing in a residential private driveway clocking drivers as they pass by with a radar. My question is ....are police allowed to stand on a private driveway to clock people?

Thanks in advance,

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I really want to know: why did you ask this question?

Nothing wrong with that

People in the neighborhood were probably complaining to the police about the driving speeds in your area. I see no problem whatsoever with police using a private drive as a staging point for getting things slowed down.

Alchohol_Free said:

People in the neighborhood were probably complaining to the police about the driving speeds in your area. I see no problem whatsoever with police using a private drive as a staging point for getting things slowed down.

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**A: i would have preferred snipers on the house roof shooting out the tires of speeders.

seniorjudge said:

I really want to know: why did you ask this question?

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Just the way the officer reacted when I said " Oh you were standing on a private driveway". He got very defensive from a simple question/statement like he shouldn't have, so it made me think. I wasn't arguing with him and thought I was very polite and said I meant nothing by it and I walked away.
I also thought I heard from somewhere that they couldn't be hiding or using private property to sit and clock people. I guess I was wrong.....

HomeGuru said:

**A: i would have preferred snipers on the house roof shooting out the tires of speeders.

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To each his own I guess....

The police chief in a local town purchased a house on the main highway with a great big shade tree in the front yard. In the summer time you always knew where to find the chief with his handy dandy radar gun.

He even rigged it with a baby monitor and left it on in the car. He could clock you from his easy chair watching the evening news. Care to guess on the probability of beating a speeding ticket in that town?

Alchohol_Free said:

People in the neighborhood were probably complaining to the police about the driving speeds in your area. I see no problem whatsoever with police using a private drive as a staging point for getting things slowed down.

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The area is a speed trap that drops of to 25 mph for a bridge and than back up to normal speed. The police always sit there and I should have known better..... I take the saem road everyday....stupidity on my part

HomeGuru said:

**A: i would have preferred snipers on the house roof shooting out the tires of speeders.

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I respectfully disagree.

This creates pot holes.

Or holes of pot.

Can't remember.