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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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To: jdege

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: 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: 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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To: jdege

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: 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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