No. We tune our radars at the start of every shift to ensure the readings are correct.
Sure, but if you don't know how to tune it properly, and do not do so, will the readings still be accurate? If you knowingly tune it wrong, will they still be accurate, and or within the drivers favor? I am not saying you personally do this, or have done this. Just is it "possible". If it's possible then it's almost a certainty that someone somewhere has done it. Either knowingly or by mistake.
From there, any poor angle, weather condition, or obscurity can only benefit the driver, either by showing a lower speed or reducing range.
I understand that, but shit happens. The device could lose accuracy through whatever means, otherwise why re-calibrate it at the start of every shift?
Of course people can make mistakes. Some might even lie.
Then there you go, there's the validity.
Your claim isn't just that it happens but that it happens so often that it's worth suspecting incompetence or misconduct over accuracy.
People remember the worse, more than they do the better things in their life. If they got a speeding ticket 15 years ago, where they knew they weren't it can shade how they view every speeding ticket thereafter. That person tells someone else, and that person tells someone else, and it sort of snowballs a bit, so it enhances the effect. So say it only happens to 5% of the population, a purely arbitrary figure I pulled out of my ass, it can spread through the population at around 20%. So say at most 20% at any one given time 1 out of 5 people can say they have been pulled over for speeding when they weren't, and or knew someone that did, or witnessed it themselves. So even a minor amount happening, can make it seem more than what it is, which.... gives the public valid reason to suspect it.
Again, and again, the guy that the op stopped could have been blowing smoke, or bullshitting, that's very possible, and hell I will admit almost probable, but acting as if the public has no right, and or reason to suspect it, is another thing entirely. If it happens once, it can happen again, and again. Even if it's not prevalent, your number may be up, and it happens to you.
Personally if I am speeding I will admit to it. But if I am not, or wasn't, I will not. I have only gotten one speeding ticket in my life. I laid that out in another post in this thread. I have been stopped for speeding twice, ticketed once.
I was driving out of state, well coming back from a few states away, my car fucked up on the way back, had to go through a shit load of trouble to get it fixed, the people I had fixing it just jerked me around, but I didn't have any other options at the time, long story short, it finally got fixed, I was out around 1000 dollars, and proceeded to drive home. I was pissed for the entire drive. I didn't even really look at the speedometer that much if at all. Coming back into the state, still about 100 miles or more from home, I saw the cop car pull out of the grass, I looked down at my speedometer, it said 85. I think the speed limit was 70 or 75. I saw the cop car pull well over into the grass, and I did so as well, was nice, kept my hands on the steering wheel, unless I was slowly reaching for my license at which I said exactly what I was doing and when. I have been around plenty of cops, hearing their stories, to know well enough how to behave around them when I am the target. I am pretty sure he saw I was pissed, I explained the situation, what all that happened, although visually I probably looked pissed, I acted, and spoke in a calm manner. He said he clocked me at 93, and I knew he could impound my car right there on the spot if he wanted to. He let me off with a warning, in part, I think was due to me having a CDL. Oh and, to the question he asked "Do you know why I pulled you over", my answer was something like "I was almost certainly speeding, I seen you, looked down, and it said 85", He told me the speed, I didn't try to deny it as I could have slowed down or something after he did it, and before I saw the speedometer. I wasn't paying attention before hand, so I couldn't really say otherwise, and not be lying.
Just to be clear, almost all of my interactions with police have went pretty well, with the exception of that one ticket. I have witnessed situations where other people didn't fare to well. Some their fault, some the officer was having a bad day, or so it seemed.
You have not shown me that's the case, just made sarcastic comments.
The comments were not sarcastic, they were real honest comments/questions/observations.
One last thing.. One bad apple, spoils the bunch. The more bad apples that are let to roam free, and do the kinds of things good officers don't do, it inadvertently makes what they do questionable. Which makes what the op did, seem a bit out of line, as it only helps to push the stance of "us vs them", rather than "protect and serve".