Went and got myself arrested today...

[freshwest]

101. Paced at 62, when the limit changed from 45 to 40 is not entrapment.

I remember in defensive driving listening to people who had their own interpretation of the speed limit, 'It's okay to go 5 or 10 miles over the posted limit.' I'd heard that one, too.

The instructor informed us, 'The speed limit is what it says it is. That's the limit, not 5 or 10 miles over.'

So at any rate, our OP writer was going 12 above, for an unknown number of miles, to 17 miles above. Speeding.

Not going to get out of this one that easily, since he was paced with the car, not just observed as going faster with a speed gun or markers, most likely. That kind of evidence works better.

Regarding stopping something illegal, criminals tend to speed away from the scene of the crime, thus speeding could be considered suspicious. If a rapist, burglar or whatever was speeding down the road, would you see it as hasseling someone or preventing an escape?

A number of people have been caught doing exactly that, fleeing the scene of a crime that hadn't made the police dispatch yet.