Posted on 03/04/2010 9:21:38 AM PST by ezfindit
For years Arizona has been known as the “sunset state,” but lately some residents simply call it the “surveillance state.” “They track us everywhere we go,” says Phoenix resident Shawn Dow. “It’s unbelievable. I can’t go anywhere and not have a camera tracking me.”
Dow is now trying to change all that with a ballot initiative this November that would ban all ticket cameras in Arizona. “I’m tired of being constantly watched,” he said. We’re all being tracked like cattle.”
(Excerpt) Read more at conservativedatingsite.com ...
Actually those cameras are going bankrupt. Because it turns out that unless the ticket is presented in person by a representative of the court within 90s the ticketed person is under no obligation to pay. And as more and more Arizonans learn this the camera program is losing more and more money.
I used to live there. It was always about generating money for the cities that use them. It was absolutely insane the amount of cameras they had on the friggin highways.
I think the post is about the bigger issue of security cameras all over the place, not just for traffic tickets.
Washington DC has about 6,000 police surveillance cameras in place (I don’t know how many private ones). Moscow has 80,000.
The law says the tickets have to be presented in person within 90 days, but the tickets are almost never presented in person, they’re mailed. The mailed tickets are completely non-binding so nobody pays. Of course there is a gotcha in that if they bring you the ticket by hand they add a surcharge for the court representative. The post is about the ticket cameras.
I just drove through Arizona last week. Every ticket cam I saw (and I saw a lot), permanent or portable, also had signs giving plenty of warning they were there. May as well have a sign on the road saying “speed trap ahead”.
No wonder they are losing money.
I hope they win in AZ, and move that initiative next door here to CA!
Pretty much all traffic laws, and methods of enforcing them, are about revenue.
Cameras for traffic control in AZ were always for generating money: revenue to the state and profit to the foreign company that installs and calibrates them. Studies do not support safer highways now that the cameras are here.
Driving the freeway system of PHX makes you feel that BigBrother is watching, because he is. The cameras are universally disliked, except by rabid liberals.
This measure will pass.
Yeah that’s another piece of fun that managed to get snuck into the law. You’d be surprised how often people still blow it though.
They want to track you by cell phone and log every website you visit....
People are really getting fed-up with bureaucratic BS in AZ.
Kramer: Our policy is, we’re comfortable with our bodies. You know, if someone wants to help themselves to an eyefull, well, we say, ‘Enjoy the show.’
So, in Arizona, no one ever answers the door?
They’re just not sending people. The mail the vast majority of the photoradar tickets and we throw them out without paying.
Bingo. One tid-bit I'm aware of is that there are cameras in the parking lots at ASU. They are set up to scan for license plates. The PD at ASU can and does routinely enter license plate BOLO information into a database and uses the parking lot cameras to scan for vehicles of interest.
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