The way to get rid of these cameras is push for a public referendum on legislation that limits the amount the city takes in to the $3800 a month per camera. The rest is refunded to the tax payer as a whole.
This way we can keep safer streets because of the fines, but the government won’t see them as a revenue generator...or...if they do, they will be forced to admit it to the public.
Excellent idea.
You are speaking of a way to keep the peace. A peace officer was in your area. That is gone. You fill in the blanks, I’m your neighbor.
Redflex was offering kickbacks directly to some of the local politicians and lobbyists in exchange for their support and entrenchment of the scamera system.
It's nothing but damn tyranny and extortion with these @ssholes, and people were tarred and feathered for such behavior back in the Colonial days.
Check it out:
http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2010/01/red-light_cameras_in_jefferson.html
http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/traffic-camera-firm-issues-threatening-letter-to-jefferson-parish-louisiana/
The city hierarchy who enforce these things are nothing more than mob bosses conducting a damn shakedown.
.... And any appeals are heard in a kangaroo court.