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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