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Originally Posted by mac88chp
For radar use, they needed approval from the state legislature and it was withheld from them for many, many years. Not sure of the reason why it took so long but there has always been a healthy (and mutual) mistrust between the two parties going all the way back to the agency's inception in the '20s.
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I found a bill put forth in the '60s that gave CHP the legislative approval, and everything I've read said that the reason every car didn't have it was because CHP never received specific radar funding (until recently). I've also seen where municipalities provided them with equipment (like FHP with the counties), but I've never heard or seen that they were not "authorized" to use the donated equipment on highways or expressways.