Police
Sorry to upset all of the folks asking for more features to warn of police presence but this is a childish feature which should be removed. Waze is a great app and you would be best served by taking the "high road" and promoting the app as an aid to road safety by making drivers aware of road situations and hazards. But many wazers like me have their kids also driving and I am just waiting with dread for the day that a fellow wazer tells a drunken driver how to avoid a policeman and then that drunk driver kills the wazer's kid. The police are mainly there for our safety - protect our kids and don't tell dangerous drivers where the police are!!

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Mechsoldier commented
This is why I WANT police reporting. Especially we need police in motion reporting.
Somebody thinking of drinking and driving may just see the police presence and change their mind.
The police are NOT parked on the highway for our safety they're there to generate revenue.
I lived in Germany 3 years. Police in Germany aren't out patrolling, they don't radar at all other than they will park a wagon or truck on the side of the road as a speed trap.
The police don't drive around looking for reasons to pull people over. They're at the station ready to move out to a call other than foot patrols on weekend nights and stuff.
And they have portions if hwy with speed limit at all, yet they have much lower fatality and accident rates per capita.
Speeds in excess of 80 are really no more dangerous than 60. It's bs. It's all for revenue.
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Adam commented
I read the title more as one down vote doesn't remove the alert. If that is the case then chips could remove alerts on their own position. Something like 3 "not there" + number of "thumb ups" would remove it
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Anonymous commented
You're an idiot and you don't live in the real world. A person should be able to do anything they want to do as long as they don't hurt someone else. Now it would be a good idea to give users the ability to track drunk drivers if you see a drunk driver to report it. But the fact that somebody sitting behind a desk somewhere tells me that it's legal to drive 55 one day and they can change the law of the next day and make the speed limit 65 is pure nonsense.
People just need to take responsibility for their own actions. Not to mention that in some states the pit the fines for these traffic infractions are ridiculous which it should be illegal in itself. For example in Florida not wearing a seat belt is like $125 ticket in Georgia it's something like a $15 ticket. When frankly it's nobody's business if I'm wearing the seatbelt or not if I'm stupid enough to not wear one and go through the windshield and died it thins out the gene pool. -
Anonymous commented
We don't post about sex offenders or known criminals why post about our Leo's and put a target in their back
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Anonymous commented
How about we track criminals instead of those trying to protect us
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Adessa Thomas commented
Please remove the feature of seeing where police officers are on the app. Many wives and husbands want there loved officers to come home to them and this could put our loved ones at reason of been stalked and targeted. They shouldn't worry about where the police are if they are following the road laws in place. If an officer is pulled on the side of they road helping someone they will have there lights on there for they are visible then but other than that it shouldn't tell you where they are sitting trying to make the roads safe for your loved ones to travel on. Please remember police officers work to help everyone, please remove to help save our loved officers lives.
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pig finder commented
sure thing, officer!
cry more
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Lisandro commented
From the goverment we would like to support and use the application, sharing a lot of information, but can not because of the polemic cop alert. Waze have to eliminate that tool to integrate the information that provides the government
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AnnaQ commented
If they're drunk, they ain't using the app. And if they are, they ain't paying attention, let's all be honest with ourselves here.
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AnnaQ commented
Wow slow driving is reckless? Half the time people consider "slow" driving to be the speed limit... Have we forgotten the definition of a limit? It's a speed determined to be the safe limit for the road.... For many reasons... Mostly people going to fast and crashing. When everyone drives above the speed limit collectively, yea, "slow" driving becomes unsafe. Never would I say slow driving IS reckless. While going 55 in a 65 isn't ideal... There is a right lane and a left lane for a reason and as long as slower traffic is in the right and PASSING traffic is in the left... (Again I say PASSING, not SOEEDING) There shouldn't be such frivolous issues on the road.
But YES for more real time police alerts... Would be extremely helpful and a bigger driver for the app.... Protect and serve, my ass. Why do you cops think just about everyone and anyone who isn't a cop or related to one feels the same way? If a feeling is mutual... Then it tends to be truth. I don't even need to give a specific example.
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Anonymous commented
After noticing that reporting police presence is the Waze app is called "Police Trap" I plan to stop using this feature.
The presence of police should not be considered a trap, unless you are planning to commit an unlawful act.
Also, as previously stated on this chat by a police officer, it puts police in danger and all of us too. -
Richard Wagner commented
Add a procedure to remove a Police Alert.
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Rarebit commented
Most of the other people like police warnings.It's one of the reasons why some people use waze e.g. I also don't think that there would less accidents by reckless drivers when removing this option from waze. I even doubt drunk drivers will use Waze to avoid police, if they drank a little and can still use waze to to navigate around police I would give them the benefit of the doubt.
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Antoine RUIZ commented
It is more than a suggestion, I'm shocked ! While the police forces are searching a cop killer in Var (French riviera) today, Waze shows where they are... Stop supporting road offences and runaway criminals.
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Anonymous commented
Par les temps difficiles en France et ailleurs, pourquoi ne pas désactiver les signalements police ?
Afin de ne pas aider les fugitifs -
Stephanie A commented
We are under terrorists attack we must help police to work not signaling.
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Kent Smith commented
Nice idea, but people will simply use the standard police indicator.
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Shawn Franchi commented
Please remove the option to report hidden police vehicles. Reporting visible police vehicles being used to close lanes of traffic, etc. make sense to be something to warn motorists about, but warning about hidden police vehicles makes no sense. If the vehicles are "hidden", then the idea is probably that public safety wants to observe the way vehicles are operated when people don't know they are being seen. Having reports of such things just seems to waste taxpayer money being spent by allowing Wazers in stolen vehicles, with arrest warrants, or otherwise in violation of laws to avoid detection. Unless Waze has plans to compensate the victims of criminals or traffic violators who avoided detection via Waze, their abetment is irresponsible.
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Fernando Daher Marques commented
The " police report " should be removed . Certainly criminals use these alerts to divert possible police blockades .
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Thomas Fisher (Fish1552) commented
First, it is NOT a crime to report the location of an officer. If you think it is, you need to read up a bit on "public domain".
Second, the feature is handy for multiple reasons.
1) to allow drivers to move over into one of the lanes to the left because the "police report" may be that one has someone stopped and many states have "Move Over" laws.
2) the reaction of many drivers when seeing a cop is to slam on the brakes. Knowing ahead of time allows you to position yourself to allow for bad reactions from other drivers, like those speeding who may be hauling something that does not react well to having the brakes slammed on.As prior law enforcement, I have no problem with the issue. Many times, sitting on the side of the road was just a deterrent and having people slow down because I was there was simply the point. It had the affect I intended so what do I care. Hell, in my area, half the departments even announce on the news where they were having speed traps set up that morning. It's simply a deterrent.