I thought those cameras (speed and stop light) were supposed to get folks to drive in a more sane manner, so why, rhetorical question, is the police department mad that the citizens are using their iPhones to do the same? Because the enforcement works on the principle that you don't know when or where it is, so the driver must remain within the law at all times. If the locations are known, then there are two options:
- this allows people to violate the safe behavior/law, or
- we must increase law enforcement coverage so it is EVERYWHERE.
Any conservative/libertarian who cannot see the implications of this has not thought it through. All these comments do is make a mockery of conservatism--by making it look like it wants to have a police state--or libertarianism--by making it look like it wants to evade the rule of law.
Just because these tools can be used as a revenue device does not make the chief's remarks invalid.