[JohnHuang2]

Wednesday, July 10, 2002

Quote of the Day by Recovering_Democrat

[the crow]

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[per loin]

Anybody know of studies that address whether or not the giving of traffic tickets improve safety? And if so, how much they do so?

[backhoe]

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[Boonie Rat]

The use of photo-radar and red-light cameras has been pushed on the public as a means of making the roads less dangerous.

It's not about safety, it is, pure and simply, about revenue. It costs far less to put up a camera and send out citations than to pay a cop (revenue enhancement agent) to sit at the stop light and write citations. Traffic laws are not about safety, they are about money, period. That is why cops are told "If you are doing your job you should be able to write (fill in the appropriate number) traffic citations a month". Been there, done that, bought the T-shirt. It didn't fit!

Boonie Rat

MACV SOCOM, PhuBai/Hue '65-'66

[chemainus]

One, in Charlottesville, VA , the yellow lights are shortened when a camera is present so you physically cannot stop without skidding into the intersection. I have tried it and shown others. 2) The traffic grid is not a single light and the computer simulators of the companies that install the cameras set the light speeds and intervals at the point the computer program says will force the most vehicles into violation. 3) I believe I saw a NHTSB study that showed installation of the cameras and fiddling with the lights CAUSED more accidents and injury and death than the lights before the cameras 4)there is a Constitutional question about the crime following a vehicle rather than the perpetrator. Someone else driving my car gets a conviction for me. This is TOTALLY unconstitutional no matter what the police say you can do ( snitch ; but you DO NOT KNOW actually who was driving if you are not in the car ; and constitutionally you do not have to tell them what they want to hear) to get out of it. 5) Monstrous sums of money are being made by the camera installers who are in cahoots with your local government which I consider a greater threat to your freedom than all other levels. D.C. and NYC brag about single lights bringing in millions of dollars each. With COPS turned into revenue chasers for your local politicians , usually in bed with all the vested interests, is there any wonder there is no one investigating crime and terrorism ? Go the easy way Mr Policeman and get your quota of blood money for your masters from the citizens you are supposed to be protecting !