Police remain close to the camera and are reporting "not there" and the original report is removed while they remain hidden. The police think they are smart now and sit with 2 work mobiles and their personal ones, so they have a minimum of 4 handsets. As hidden is reported they select no long there. Possibly set it to 5 or more other Waze users claiming not there before removing or at least a wazers traveling speed of 10 + other reports before the hazard is removed. Please help us. Thank you all so much for the amazing app and your contributions to navigate us and keeping us safe on the roads.

Good plan. If google will allow a police vehicle to be identified as present, then they can't complain about a feature to ensure the information is [still] valid. I could easily write a function that would detect a status change back & forth over a short period of time, but they haven't asked me to code for them.

Another approach is to delay 'not there' as an option for a progressively longer period of time. So the first time it can be cancelled within a minute, but if re-added withing x minutes, then disable the 'not there' status switch for something like 5 minutes. The next meddling, it waits 30 mins, you get the idea. Nobody is going to complain about a warning being old (false positive), but everyone will complain about meddling with the service.

This could be in addition to the above user suggestion, as a stopped vehicle could be at a light, or traffic on road so close waze can't pin-point you.

Great idea, never thought they did that. But of course they do.

100% agree with the issue! I noticed in Switzerland that I reported multiple time a hidden camera and it “disappeared”.

I would say that Waze could disregard feedback from user that on report “no longer there”. As policemen will not flag cameras…

Very good thinking Bob👍

Bob that’s a highly intelligent comment 👍

This is true , it is happening in Dublin, Ireland too

30minutes IMHO

I suggest putting a time limit on the police alert. It stays for 20-30 minutes, then there is the option to remove it. The highway bandits (cops) are definitely doing this. I live in Texas and alerts I've posted have disappeared within a couple minutes of posting them.

Traveling from Milwaukee to Madison the 4 police alerts I posted were removed as soon as I put them up

Police are removing warnings about them as they sit idle in their spot to avoid detection of us Waze users. I think police warnings once placed should act on a timer expirey system; permanently placed for at least 3 hours once reported and then it's auto removed. That way cops can't cheat this amazing feature and at least after the 3 hours or so another user has to re report thier spot. So both parties get a "chance" without the game going back and forth between users reporting, cops removing, on and off again...

From experience I have encountered police officers, who happen to be users, who will "not there" themselves when reported. I recommend a time assignment for the report instead (30 min for the initial report then a confirmation box rather than the "not there" option) to combat this tendency.

I don't get why there is a police report feature in the first place.
What's the reason for reporting? To alert someone that is committing a crime, so he doesn't get caught. This is wrong.

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