Tools and devices to beat police cameras and radar detectors

Technology has brought about a battery of devices aimed to prevent being
caught by police cameras and radar detectors. Learn how they work.

Since the beginning, law enforcement agencies and offenders have been in
a cat and mouse existence. Our modern world has equipped our government
troopers with enough electronic gadgets like street cameras, police
radas and laser guns to keep track of traffic violators, over speeding
motorists and catch them with their pants down. With the development of
sophisticated technology, counter measures also plied the market, such
as radar detectors, laser jammers and recently license plate cover
spray, all designed to evade detection, which renders the job of
troopers tough to handle.

What exactly are these devices? You might have noticed that our traffic
signal systems have become quite sophisticated. Monitoring road traffic
is now handled through the use of powerful computers and aided by street
cameras, radar detectors, and laser guns. Should you commit a traffic
violation, no officer of the law will accost and give you a traffic
ticket. Instead, all of these offenses are recorded and a traffic
incursion ticket is directly sent to your address. It becomes doubly
difficult to dispute a traffic violation because said violation is
electronically stored and detailed in a large database, complete with
video cover and time.

A product that has been in use by many car owners is the radar detector.
The idea behind this scheme is to provide warning signs once you drive
along pertinent government installations like photo radars, red-light
cameras and also speed cameras. These installations are good deterrents
against those prone to commit road violations, drunk driving or drug
related offenses.

For those in the habit of over speeding, the radar detector is no match
for the laser guns of police troopers. Once a motorist detects the
presence of these electronic gadgets, it detects too late since the
laser gun needs only a fraction of a second to record the car's speed.
To evade detection, the radar detector must have a laser jammer to
prevent the opposing laser gun from momentarily recording speed; thus,
giving the driver time to slow down and cruise within the required speed
limit.

Photo radars, red-light cameras and speed cameras are now widely used in
major cities across the United States. These systems have become popular
nowadays, because it is found to be very useful in tracking down traffic
violators. No efficient counter gadget has yet been designed to limit
its effectiveness except the license plate cover spray that hinders
traffic cameras from reading correctly the violator's plate number. This
is a new, highly advanced technology that actively blocks and bars any
system that employs a flash camera from taking a photograph of the
license plate. In the absence of concrete evidence, traffic violators
will not be charged.