[nicollo]

I find it especially repulsive that a private entity gets a cut from each ticket. A flat fee for a service rendered I can understand. But dishing out commissions on civil fines is stupid and corrupt. Whey'd it take 20,000 tickets and an outside party to find that bad light on H street? Hmm, something tells me it wasn't in the interest of the provider to know anything about it.

It's like giving plaintiffs and lawyers the fines imposed as punishment. That one makes me wrench.

[Chairman_December_19th_Society]

It's like giving plaintiffs and lawyers the fines imposed as punishment. That one makes me wrench.

I agree. For me it is real simple - if you cannot arrest with certainty the individual who did the deed, there is no case.

Cameras cannot do that - they are corrupt and an abridgement of our freedom.

The goal is laudible, but it is too easily manipulated for greedy individuals, and is, in any event, more of a tax than a penalty. Worse, it is a lottery-driven tax.

Very scuzzy.

[Chairman_December_19th_Society]

I should have said "the use of the cameras is corrupt," sheez. Cameras are inanimate.