The Ohio Supreme Court has recently ruled that police officers in the Buckeye state do not necessarily need to have evidence from radar to prove that a vehicle is speeding, they can, however ticket a motorist who is driving in the state of Ohio, simply because it looks like he may be speeding. Officers merely need to estimate that you might be speeding and that is enough to start writing tickets, sounds corrupt doesn’t it?

Most police officers have little or no formal training that would help them to gauge how fast a vehicle is going by eyeballing it,

According to police training officials, “visual assessment is only a portion of the five-hour course on traffic enforcement. Instructors bring recruits to various traffic situations and have them guess speeds. The instructor then checks the guesses against what the radar gun says and calculates the difference.”  No comments were made about how far off the average officer in training really was.

The number of traffic citations received in a year can reach up to 35 million across the country, so it is big business for local governments in the U.S.  In some small rural towns the revenue generated as a result of traffic tickets is virtually the only source of capitol that funds their yearly operating budgets.

Many people take the path of least resistance and just pay their fines, it’s easier than taking the time and added expense of going to court to fight them.  If you live in Ohio, you may well save your energy and time-looks like it’s going to be your word against theirs from this point forward.

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