Chitcago needs top train its red light cameras instead on their murderous little criminals with guns for real safety measures. Shame on all those municipalities that use traffic cameras to extort the citizens for more cash— greedy tasbards.
I’m OK with surveillance cameras. You should have to get a warrant to view whats on them, though.
Red light cameras? Sure. If there is an accident, then view the tape. Robo-tickets? Absolutely not. They should be banned.
george76 ~:” Contrary to its claims, the City of Chicago’s red light cameras are not based on safety, according to an Inspector General (IG) audit of the program that brought in more than $71 million in revenue for the city last year. “
I wonder how much of that money went to the city , and how much went to the opertors of the cameras.
In Florida , in order to collect more money , they shortened the timeing cycle of the lights by more than 1/2 second; resulting in more fines.
It also resulted in more ‘rear-end’ collisions by people who slammed on the brakes so they wouldn’t go through a yellow caution intersection .
Camera surveilled intersection = $50.00 ticket
Take it to court = additional court charges just to oppose ticket
The number of ‘rear-end’ collisions has gone up dramaticly
All money rightfully belongs to the big-government/big-corporate criminal complex anyway.
There was a study in New Jersey which appears to be fairly accurate on this issue. The study found that the vast majority of Red Light Camera tickets were for people who made a right turn on red and only stopped for a couple seconds rather than the required number of seconds. It definitely wasn’t people blowing through red lights going straight. Its a complete scam no matter where its implemented.
My phone gives an audible warning for them and shows them on its Nav Map too. It is pretty hard for me to get caught by one.
“Law Enforcement” is merely taxation by other means.
Traffic enforcement has always been a money-maker. This is just cheaper and more effective enforcement. If people don’t like more effective enforcement, then they can elect representatives who will change the laws.