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Red-light camera officials caught on FBI wire talking about giving perks to suburban mayor, unsealed document shows
Chicago Tribune ^ | Feb 17, 2023 | Jason Meisner and Joe Mahr

Posted on 02/18/2023 4:50:22 AM PST by Salman

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1 posted on 02/18/2023 4:50:22 AM PST by Salman
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Wow. An FBI sting for a corrupt mayor taking red light camera bribes. They really are tackling the tough cases./s


2 posted on 02/18/2023 5:11:00 AM PST by HYPOCRACY (This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
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To: Salman

Since they didn’t mention party affiliation, I looked it up, Democrat, of course.


3 posted on 02/18/2023 5:16:33 AM PST by fedupjohn (Waiting for Trump's new Caribbean Resort "Club Gitmo" to open for business! )
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To: Salman

...Omar Maani, one of SafeSpeed’s founders ...


4 posted on 02/18/2023 5:22:19 AM PST by bankwalker (Repeal the 19th ...)
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To: Salman

Is it fair to presume that any city with this company’s cameras had a similar arrangement?


5 posted on 02/18/2023 5:22:49 AM PST by AdSimp
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To: Salman

When I first heard about traffic cameras, I was in favor of them, provided that neither the company nor the unit of government that built, installed and operated them was not in any way compensated based on ticket volumes.


6 posted on 02/18/2023 5:23:05 AM PST by jdege
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Business as usual. Boy our FBI is penetrating into real criminal influence problems. These guys were probably sexually corrupting our children and turning them all into communists too. And bringing in fentanyl. And human sex trafficking.

How much do these guys cost us?


7 posted on 02/18/2023 5:29:23 AM PST by Blue Collar Christian (I'm a nationalist. I'm white. How does that make me racist?)
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Texas Governor Gregg Abbott just signed legislation here in Texas banning red light cameras.


8 posted on 02/18/2023 5:30:35 AM PST by 38special (I should've said something earlier)
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I love that in Alaskan cities people tent to take twelve gauge shotguns to the cameras.

You want to catch me blowing a light wait there and catch me then pull me over


9 posted on 02/18/2023 5:30:56 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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To: HYPOCRACY

I disagree, this is what they SHOULD be doing instead of suppress free speech for the Democratic Party.


10 posted on 02/18/2023 5:32:43 AM PST by Husker24 (Pp)
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To: HYPOCRACY

Clintoons are laughing uncontrollably


11 posted on 02/18/2023 5:33:27 AM PST by Track9 (You are far too inquisitive not to be seduced…)
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To: Blue Collar Christian

I guess “SafeSpeed” needed to be bribing the FBI as well as the run-of-the-mill crooked local politicians. /s


12 posted on 02/18/2023 5:36:14 AM PST by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: jdege
Red light cameras are nothing more than a scheme to extract yet more revenue from hapless citizens who are already taxed every which way. Just like speed traps, it is not about "safety" at all, but sticking it to the citizens.

Insurance companies are in on this too as they will raise your rates as you accumulate more of these tickets.

13 posted on 02/18/2023 5:39:36 AM PST by SamAdams76 (4,895,899 Truth | 87,656,930 Twitter)
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To: Fresh Wind

Right. They didn’t grease all the right wheels.

Evidently our LMNOQIAMLEGION communist education system, Mexican cartels, etc. ARE greasing all the right wheels.


14 posted on 02/18/2023 5:44:40 AM PST by Blue Collar Christian (I'm a nationalist. I'm white. How does that make me racist?)
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To: jdege

I hope you changed your mind a minute later. They are nothing but a money grab.

Between shortening yellow lights, hiding the cameras and bribes.

Speed camera’s are worse. I got tagged in Washington DC. The speed limit dropped from 50 to 25 in about 40 feet. The single camera brought in $13,000,000 in “safety” a year.

Someone finally “accidentally” hit it with a snowplow.

Baltimore County Police had to refund a few hundred thousand dollars after it was discovered that the sworn law enforcement officer who reviewed and signed each ticket had been dead for six months.


15 posted on 02/18/2023 5:45:20 AM PST by cyclotic
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Really?

Not familiar with the slippery slope the left uses?

You know they used seatbelt laws as an argument to force people to get “vax”.

We shouldn’t give these commies one single inch. Further we need to claw inches back.


16 posted on 02/18/2023 5:47:55 AM PST by Sarcazmo ("Sarcasm is the highest form of wit" ~ O. Wilde)
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To: jdege

“I was in favor of them”

You wouldn’t if you got one of their CS tickets for not coming to a complete dead stop. I got one once and the video showed wheel lugs barely moving.


17 posted on 02/18/2023 5:51:42 AM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: HYPOCRACY

Still no arrests in the hunter laptop/bribery/pedo case.


18 posted on 02/18/2023 6:10:46 AM PST by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: jdege

Lots of people value safety over freedom.


19 posted on 02/18/2023 6:14:50 AM PST by DariusBane (Liberty and Risk. Flip sides of the same coin. So how much risk will YOU accept? Vive Deo et Vives)
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To: 38special

Red light cameras are banned in Kentucky, but a new democrat in the state legislature is just introduced a law to try and make them legal.
I think it’s unlikely based on talking to my representative that it could become law. But you never know. The state gets pressure from localities because of their insatiable desire for revenue


20 posted on 02/18/2023 6:22:03 AM PST by ChildOfThe60s ( If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there..)
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