Since the November election when Houstonians voted down this crap...The cameras are still up, they say they are not operating, not collecting revenue, and that the company that installed them has the city of Houston tied up in court to decide the fate of these fines and cameras...
Well, I can tell you the people voted them down, and if my math is right, a 120 moratorium on the existance of these cameras is about to expire...March 2nd is open season on the hardware as far as Iam concerned...
They’ve had their chance to screw us over much longer than they were supposed to...
Obviously they do not respect, nor listen to the people anymore...
There are only about 70 of these things around town...
For now...
We hear that cameras prevent crimes. Every bank and convenience store has a security camera system. Yet there are still willful violators who enter the property with the sole intent of committing a crime.
They commit the crime and while we have the recorded “evidence” to use to prosecute a suspect, should one ever be apprehended, it did nothing to “protect” against that crime.
Prosecution and locking UP criminals prevents recurrence of crime.