local-radar

COMMENTARY

When it comes to the debate over local radar, silence isn’t golden | Mark O’Keefe

BY: - July 11, 2023

This very important bill needs to be debated in the open -- right now, that's not happening.

COMMENTARY

Dip in traffic fatalities proves local police don’t need radar | Capital-Star Letters

BY: - May 4, 2023

If the Legislature still wants to give RADAR to municipal police, they should at least come clean and admit that it’s for the money, not safety.

COMMENTARY

The House GOP’s silence on police radar bill isn’t just deafening, it’s deadly | Mark O’Keefe

BY: - October 13, 2021

The measure hasn't come up for a vote before the state House of Representatives, and one doesn't seem likely, at least for this year.

Pa. Black Caucus pushes for universal collection of racial data from traffic stops

BY: - May 2, 2021

Black lawmakers could hold the deciding votes on two long-sought changes to state driving laws, giving them the rare leverage to ask that an expansion of police oversight be accompanied by protections for Black drivers.

COMMENTARY

Is this year the year that local police departments finally get radar? | Tuesday Morning Coffee

BY: - March 30, 2021

Local police departments have been looking for the right to run radar on Pa. motorists since there were cars -- or at least it feels like it sometimes.