iPhone Trapster App and Police Reaction

Trapster.com released an iPhone Application in early 2009, soon to be released on the Palm Pre, named after it’s own website. The Trapster app is a GPS enabled anti-ticketing technology to remind errant drivers to slow down. As stated in the iTunes store description, “FREE app that alerts you as you approach police speed traps, red light cameras, and speed cameras.”

While many states have outlawed radar detectors this application is almost a replacement. We, Police State Observer, believe it could help reduce your encounters with law enforcement offices, traffic related crimes and accidents. It also does what law enforcement fails to do on their own, to make their presence know so that people do not break the law.

According to the Washington Examiner, police chief Cathy Lanier was quoted as saying that using the application was a “cowardly tactic.”

Nothing is more cowardly than an officer hiding behind a bush on the interstate waiting for a speeder to happen by. Its seems their philosophy is hope that drivers speed so that they can give them a ticket and gain revenues. Is it not safer for all drivers for the police to make their presence know, patrol the interstate and keep speeding to a minimum?