My money is on the notion that the local jurisdiction has ALREADY gotten its revenue. I'll bet they have sold the rights to a private company (some politician's BIL) for money up-front while the company collects the down-stream revenue or part thereof. It would also explain why the author must send the MD fine payment to PA.
I’ll bet they have sold the rights to a private company (some politician’s BIL) for money up-front while the company collects the down-stream revenue or part thereof.
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Potential ‘monies’ aside, the basic (original) idea for that cruiser sitting alongside the road was to ‘slow people down’.
Once the message was and people know the cruiser would be sitting there, ‘the traffic slowed down’. Success!..
Now the unintended consequence of speed/red light cameras is when the citizenry starts paying attention and obeying the existing laws, the investment made by the camera company starts drying up and they are ‘stuck’ with equipment etc because the public is ‘following the rules’.
So now, in order to pay off their investors/stock holders etc, the system has to be ‘tweaked’.
Virtually the same ‘vicious cycle’ gets invoked, much like the govt ‘complaining’ about big oils profits when in reality the ‘government’ receives many times more, while, actually, not doing ANY of the work - except writing legislature to will itself more money.
Yup. That’s the way they operate. Down here in Tidewater VA we are fighting our cities tooth and nail over speed and red light cameras. Just can’t believe people aren’t screaming about the ‘presumption of guilt’ thing. There are cameras EVERYWHERE - gawd only knows who is monitoring what.
Good point.