I’m going to guess it’s actually harder to contest. If he was pacing you, and his own speedometer showed that he was traveling above the speed limit, there’s really no way out of it.

No, to my guess; prevention anyway. Cops are always on the lookout for somebody to catch! Unfortunatly today in our society, it’s harder to convince the cop to get out of the ‘Speeding Ticket’ Luckily I have never gotten one!

Listen your best bet is to call your arresting officer. Speak to him about the ticket what it means to you and how you regret your decision. Basically kiss his / her ass.

This will work wonders for you in court with your officer talks to the judge and recommends you get off for free. Maybe an hour of community service.

@bennihan But be sure not to kiss his butt to much, they may find out what your trying to do Ha~Ha.

Well, my tactic is to act dumb and giggle a lot. That’s always gotten me off the hook before the ticket was even written. I think you have be female for this to be effective, and of course the cop would need to be male.

I am going to traffic court on Tues. evening for MY speeding ticket. My goal is to pay the fine and change the charge to a non-moving violation.

I’ll let you know what happens. I was caught on radar (going 55 for about twenty seconds in a 30 mph zone).

In my babelacious days, flirting or tearing-up worked. No longer.

@gailcalled GOOD LUCK @GAILCALLED!

what i have found is that the cop will be in court and will “bargain” with you – in exchange for not bringing it to trial, they will drop the charges down to a lesser amount of speeding, or if you were already not speeding too too fast they’ll drop to a non-moving violation, like failure to wear a seatbelt. that way, the town that the ticket is from gets money out of you, but they get to save on not having a trial and the time of the officer, judge, court staff, etc., and you get to just pay a fine but not have your insurance go up.

i am good friends with a cop and he told me when he has to appear for a trial about speeding, the first thing he has to do in his testimony is talk about how long he has been a police officer and all the trainings he has had, listing them by class title, year, etc. so that he is shown to be very competent right off the bat at assessing speeds. then he does his testimony about what he saw. the speeder does his testimony, which is basically just saying he did not speed, which sounds comparatively lame. and then the judge may drop the charges to a lesser charge, which the speeder could have gotten in the original bargaining session, plus saved himself time and lawyer’s fees, or the judge could make the charges stand, in which case the speeder wasted his time and is found guilty anyway, and i’m sure in very rare instances the judge will dismiss the ticket (but very rare because 1. tickets bring in revenue for a town and 2. if the judge does that too much it will discourage officers from doing their jobs, namely, catching traffic violators like yourself).