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>>Any driver who ignored a photo-enforcement ticket was supposed to have been served. One problem was that process servers were inundated and simply couldn’t get to everybody. If a person was not served, his or her ticket became invalid after three months.
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Hand over the process serving to the illegals...Oh wait, it’s AZ.
“Many of those people, however, never paid the fines....”
Now...who could that be???
>>”We actually had almost 22 percent fewer fatality collisions in Metro Phoenix,” said DPS Lt. Steve Harrison in October 2009. “That equates to 12 actual fatal collisions that didn’t happen, which statistically equates to about 13 lives that were saved.” <<
Two phrases that this person does not understand:
1. The ends do not always justify the means.
2. Give me liberty, or give me death.
Also, 12 is a pretty low number and is more anecdotal than empirical. It would be interesting to learn the cause of all the accidents on this stretch.
Every time I go through an area that warns of cameras I drop my speed to well below the limit and often wonder if I may be getting a ticket in the mail for the time before I dropped speed. IOW, I wait a couple of weeks for another shoe to drop. I can only assume most people have the same reaction. The “big brother fear” is simply not worth the results.
Paradise Valley, Arizona Police Arrest a Hat
Written by Rob on 10 July 2010
Police in Paradise Valley, Arizona angered by anti-speed camera protest. Police in Paradise Valley, Arizona took a giant sombrero into custody last month because it had interfered with a roadside speed camera. Members of the group CameraFraud had gathered beside the device on June 11 to protest the use of automated ticketing machines while the Daily Show’s Olivia Munn filmed the action. About a dozen surrounded the sombrero-topped camera which carried a sign painted in the colors of the Mexican flag reading, “Deport Me” when Paradise Valley Police Officer Steven Chavira arrived on the scene.
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The reason these cameras are unpopular is because it takes a live person to give you a ticket. Who knows if the data was correct or not? Not only that the constitution gives you the right to face your accuser and you can hardly do that with a camera.
Gotta' love it.