# Reasons for reporting hazards
**URL:** https://www.waze.com/discuss/t/reasons-for-reporting-hazards/143902
**Category:** General Topics
**Created:** [August 10, 2012, 6:12pm UTC](https://www.waze.com/discuss/t/reasons-for-reporting-hazards/143902 "2012-08-10T18:12:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@CBenson](https://www.waze.com/discuss/u/CBenson)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2012, 11:00pm UTC](https://www.waze.com/discuss/t/reasons-for-reporting-hazards/143902/21 "2012-08-28T23:00:05Z")
On my commute its not that uncommon to see a marked car sitting behind an unmarked car when checking HOV compliance.
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### Author:  [@BlazeTool](https://www.waze.com/discuss/u/BlazeTool)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2012, 12:51am UTC](https://www.waze.com/discuss/t/reasons-for-reporting-hazards/143902/22 "2012-08-29T00:51:48Z")
> [@gordonski](#):
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> How did he measure your speed while writing the ticket? Our cops aren’t that capable of multitasking and can’t write tickets for “assuming that you might have passed them too fast”. 😉
He didn’t, hence the “finished” writing the ticket. 😉 Cop pulls Car A over, cites them, finishes paperwork, is getting ready to pull back out onto the road when Car B blows by and gets picked up. Unless of course the cops are finishing their paperwork after they’ve already pulled back onto the road.
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### Author:  [@crashspeeder](https://www.waze.com/discuss/u/crashspeeder)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2012, 12:30pm UTC](https://www.waze.com/discuss/t/reasons-for-reporting-hazards/143902/23 "2012-08-29T12:30:56Z")
> [@gordonski](#):
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> > [@BlazeTool](#):
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> > IMHO a cop on the side of the road with someone pulled over is still a cop. Just because he has pulled someone over doesn’t mean he can’t have finished writing the ticket and come after you if you blow by him speeding.
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> How did he measure your speed while writing the ticket? Our cops aren’t that capable of multitasking and can’t write tickets for “assuming that you might have passed them too fast”. 😉
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> Gordonski
While I see what you’re saying, your assumption is faulty. Cops don’t always have handheld radar/laser guns; some vehicles have the radar or laser mounted and pointed backwards. These also make a noise at a frequency corresponding to the speed of the car it has targeted. I would argue a cop writing a minor ticket could easily hear the high-pitch squeal of a speeder and give chase as the speeder might be a higher risk to the public than the guy he pulled over for not signaling.
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### Author:  [@BlazeTool](https://www.waze.com/discuss/u/BlazeTool)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2012, 1:04pm UTC](https://www.waze.com/discuss/t/reasons-for-reporting-hazards/143902/24 "2012-08-29T13:04:13Z")
Also, there are other traffic citations they can write even if they can’t get a speed. Broken taillight? Oops! Failure to display tags? Gotcha! Two speeders? No problem, first for speeding, second for “failure to maintain an assured clear distance” (tailgating). In city traffic almost no one follows at the proper distance.
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### Author:  [@sosb](https://www.waze.com/discuss/u/sosb)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2012, 4:14am UTC](https://www.waze.com/discuss/t/reasons-for-reporting-hazards/143902/25 "2012-09-01T04:14:59Z")
Often traffic will slow when a cop has somebody pulled over on the shoulder. It can be helpful to know that this is the reason and not some type of hazard to be avoided.
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### Author:  [@kentsmith9](https://www.waze.com/discuss/u/kentsmith9)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2012, 4:49am UTC](https://www.waze.com/discuss/t/reasons-for-reporting-hazards/143902/26 "2012-09-01T04:49:22Z")
…Or texting on your smart phone to report a cop on the side of the road – while driving… :o
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### Author:  [@kentsmith9](https://www.waze.com/discuss/u/kentsmith9)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2012, 4:51am UTC](https://www.waze.com/discuss/t/reasons-for-reporting-hazards/143902/27 "2012-09-01T04:51:05Z")
> [@sosb](#):
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> Often traffic will slow when a cop has somebody pulled over on the shoulder. It can be helpful to know that this is the reason and not some type of hazard to be avoided.
Hey sosb, I just noticed your first post after only 6 days as a Waze member. Congratulations for joining and even more important for being bold enough to post in the forums so early.
Welcome.
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