Interesting Items of the Week: Japanese Police! 2021 08 01

I find it really interesting watching police videos. The bikes are really cool, and a lot of times they use unmarked vehicles with lights that pop up out of the roof. They will have an officer hide behind a road sign with a radar gun. In a town near where I live, they will set up a speed trap at the beginning of a series of traffic lights and then change the traffic lights red when someone comes speeding by. Either you are caught only for speeding or, if you don’t stop, for speeding and running a red light. It is a strange system though. I’ve seen cars violate traffic laws and not be stopped by police that are going by. It seems a lot of times, they only stop vehicles for these minor infractions when they specifically set up traps to do so. Where I live, I would say 80% of drivers exceed the speed limit at all times. And 20km/hr over the limit seems to be the ‘safe’ zone. Of course, in certain situations you may be stopped for this also. Things like rush hour, school areas, busy intersections, etc.

Here is a fairly slow traffic stop, but it demonstrates the willingness of the police to jump out in front of vehicles to stop them. This is from the YouTube channel: “This is the Japanese Police“. It has over 200 videos.