Police on the move and what side
Police on the move: I would put an option on the police spotter that shows moving/same side or moving/other side of the road. The app can see what direction/side the motorist is on, it would be a simple change to show that the police are moving on your side or other.
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John Sheffeld commented
Allow a shadow police indicator that indicates recent police activity in area and movement along a route.
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Anonymous commented
1. When searching for a route/overview, like to get a summary of Speed camera, police, accidents along the route, so that I can choose the best route.
2. In the range of speed camera or traffic light, I prefer audio alarm.
3. Requesting Special Icon for “mobile speed camera”.
4. “Back ground operation” of Waze would be a good feature.
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Anonymous commented
Everything on the Police is not as clear as it should be when it comes to getting speeding tickets we need to be able to decipher whether or not the police officer is sitting still or he is driving because this changes the location that you see the police constantly
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Anonymous commented
Can you guys add a moving target icon (police) with editable speed and direction?
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smokingtree commented
Absolutely +N for this.
Currently the function is garbage, cops are not idiots, they of course can open the app and get themselves outta the original location. And how do people define visible or hidden? If a cop is hidden, how could I spot it? Or do you mean undercover? Marking an undercover police brings risks to both of us as well!
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Jim Smith commented
Absolutely add this. Basically the only thing your missing.
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Jason Green commented
This would be a great additional feature!
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Shay Trask commented
Additional feature: Police menu, “driving same direction” or “driving other direction”...
How it works: The “driving police icon” would move on the map in the direction and suggested speed limit. It would start to fade over 5 minutes unless another WAZER confirmed the police again. When confirmed again, the timer resets for another 5 minutes.
Voice commands from WAZE: "Police driving toward you"... ..."Police driving behind you"... ..."police driving ahead of you"...
Part 2. If WAZER clicks "driving same direction" the app will notify WAZER after 4 minutes of driving and ask if the police officer is still moving the same direction as you. Then "thumbs up" or "X"...
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smokingtree commented
Same!
Can not believe it has been years! I was reporting cops on the other side but then found Waze erroneously put the icon on my side facing other side. But actually, Wazers on the other side cannot see the report!
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Dave Hartinger commented
Having the police ICON with movement lines would be one improvement, but have the icon actually moving would be best. Since the calculation for ETA is largely base upon posted speeds, why not have the Moving Police ICON flashing and moving at that speed on the map. If the car stops, Wazers can then click on a stopped button if the Police stop in the median or have pulled someone over.
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Anonymous commented
I understand the concern for safety around individuals in law enforcement, as several of my family members are included in that group, and they do great work!; however it is important to realize and understand that the state has a monopoly on force. There are more of them than there are of us and there is no trend indicating that the monopoly of force will ease up on issues such as speeding tickets given out for the sole purpose of revenue building or the mass incarceration of our fellow American citizens for non-violent crimes such as possession of marijuana. We are already allowed to listen to police radio, and most police wear bodycams... For the sake of transparency, wouldn't it be beneficial for the public to know where their public servants are?
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Anonymous commented
Allow the ability to specify where the police are like on the app.
Like other side of road, hidden etc....
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berto commented
i was thinking the same thing. people mark where they see a police car that one time. the police is cruising the stretch of highway and may stop somewhere else down the road. if someone comes along later they will probably not see the police car in the same position. like this: http://university-park.org/pictures/waze/police_zone0.png
i was thinking that if there are a couple of sightings that the road would be highlighted in the same way that a section of road is highlighted for heavy traffic. it would look like this:
http://university-park.org/pictures/waze/police_zone1.pngwhatever length of time is used to maintain sightings would also be used to remove the highlight. this way we can have a warning area were drivers should be extra vigilant.
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Danye commented
Hey last thing not to add to the idea at all but the reason for adding being able to move the spot where I pick police is, many times when I see a cop I want to report it but my phone is on the passenger seat. I know that if I grab it and try to hit the button it's going to be 3 or 4 miles in the wrong place. so at that point I figured it's worse to put a wrong location of a police then the right place.. and I don't bother. You probably would get a tremendous amount more reporting if people were able to pick the spot where they saw the police. also when I see police and somebody else report it I hardly ever see if there's comments and like I was saying on the other idea of the moving police is if you're able to pick the spot and a cop is following you like somebody else suggested and you really don't want to pick up your phone, you can just wait until he is no longer following you or he's no longer in visual sight of you and you can pick up the phone please where the police were and if it's a police that are moving if there's another icon for that type of police being present anybody will know to look under that type of police icon for comments okay sorry I did Overkill because I'm talking into text and I didn't think it all out before I post it so thank you guys and ladies
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Danye commented
Just like this text that I created are this post I created, I talked in the text and I hate the way it sounds and it's not concise. I could delete it and I really don't feel like rewriting it but you got the basic idea is actually three ideas. But under a comment if you try to do that and it doesn't make sense or you doing it real fast you should just be able to delete it and redo it
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Danye commented
This would help tremendously. Two things regarding police reporting. The first is you should be allowed to go back and move your spot of where you pick police are. I was just in an area where there was no service and a cop was about three to four miles back where I saw him and I posted there was existing police and they weren't there if I was able to move the location it would be tremendous help. Second thing is when posting a comment under my marker I talked in a taxed and realize that it was totally wrong. As the creator of the comment I should be able to delete comments that were wrong. last thing actually I just thought of which would be very helpful would be two more police categories you have hidden and non hidden but you should really have one for moving police. What police have been doing recently is driving an unmarked cars and staying within a perimeter. If you had something that showed a police moving rather than just your regular police sign then you could look under everybody will know to look under the comments for the type of car and whatever else people can pick up as far as information. If you change these three things it would be tremendous
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Anonymous commented
About 75% of the police warning signs I see end up having no police anywhere around where it is posted dot it is probably people flagging police that are driving along in traffic. Waze knows how fast the traffic flow is so if they have a police in traffic icon it could move with the flow of traffic
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Ika commented
It would be great if there was an option to capture a “Drive Along Police Car”. Often times, police car is on the highway alongside of us, and it is difficult to identify them.
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Anonymous commented
The only options I see are to report stopped police. It would be nice to have an option to report police that are traveling with or faster than prevailing traffic. That police car could then be shown moving on Waze.
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Robert commented
I came here to suggest the same thing. In the USA police often don't park or hide, they simply cruise up and down the interstate or highway. It would be very helpful to be able to select MOVING SAME DIRECTION or MOVING OPPOSITE DIRECTION.
The Same Direction could be centered on the Wazer (or Wazers) who report the police as in sight.
The Opposite Direction could move along the reported route at the posted speed limit in the opposite direction of the Wazer reporting it. Like/Don't Like Updates would take care of turn offs, stops, etc.