[BBL2014] Cop Talk: It's not entrapment if you're speeding of your own free will

Link: http://www.redding.com/news/2010/mar/20/cop-talk-its-not-entrapment-if-youre-speeding-of/

This is a normal excuse occasionally used by speeding road offenders to plead for their own innocence. From the link, written by Monty Hight a retired California Highway Police Officer regarding about this matter. Quoted:

“Q: When a California Highway Patrol officer is sitting on the other side of the freeway in the complete dark with no parking lights or anything indicating his presence and uses his radar gun for speed control and nabs you, is that entrapment? And how can it possibly be legal?”

His reply is as quoted:

“A person is "entrapped" when he is induced or persuaded by law enforcement officers or their agents to commit a crime that he had no previous intent to commit; and the law as a matter of policy forbids conviction in such a case.” And

“There was nothing that the CHP officer did that caused you to exceed the posted speed limit. Yes, you probably would have slowed down had you known he was there, but nothing that he did induced or persuaded you to commit a crime (speeding).”

Although this is a reference taken from California, this matter applies to any roads and highways. As such, any drivers or motorcyclists that are found guilty of speeding or breaking the speed limit have only themselves to blame as this incident is done under their conscious.