Posted on 07/07/2009 10:00:19 AM PDT by RatherBiased.com
Area drivers looking to outwit police speed traps and traffic cameras are using an iPhone application and other global positioning system devices that pinpoint the location of the cameras.
That has irked D.C. police chief Cathy Lanier, who promised her officers would pick up their game to counteract the devices, which can also help drivers dodge sobriety checkpoints.
"I think that's the whole point of this program," she told The Examiner. "It's designed to circumvent law enforcement -- law enforcement that is designed specifically to save lives."
The new technology streams to i-Phones and global positioning system devices, sounding off an alarm as drivers approach speed or red-light cameras.
Lanier said the technology is a "cowardly tactic" and "people who overly rely on those and break the law anyway are going to get caught" in one way or another.
The greater D.C. area has 290 red-light and speed cameras -- comprising nearly 10 percent of all traffic cameras in the U.S., according to estimates by a camera-tracking database called the POI Factory.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
“law enforcement that is designed specifically to save lives.” “
Not when it comes to speed enforcement. At least in my town, it’s a revenue stream. Period.
> Lanier said the technology is a “cowardly tactic”
...whereas speed cameras and random breathalyzer checkpoints are courageous police work, ay.
I wonder if the police chief had an option that saved lives but cost her money, would she choose it? Maybe a little device that warned drivers when they’re approaching an intersection that was dangerous so that they slowed down? Oh wait....
I thought you would find this interesting.....
How am I going to pay for my retirement? I will need to work to 65 instead of retiring at 50.
Excellent! I might have to get an iPhone after all... ;-)
This is what she really meant.
Revenue agents ...not about safety
I'm going to need some explanation on this one. Cowardly HOW?
It strikes me as being the opposite of cowardice to work against a totalitarian government and its police force.
Hmm... maybe an iPhone won’t be so bad.
What are more apps like this to make everyday life easier, Sword?
Just for the serfs I'm sure. CongressCreatures, High-level Obama Admin Mandarins, and SCOTUS types need not worry.
Just wait until someone figures out how to connect an iPhone to a radar detector. Call it Bear Tweets or some such.
Now there’s a million dollar idea right there...
I’m really sorry that I’m not in the DC area to spraypaint the lenses of the speed cameras. It is simply a revenue raiser, it has NOTHING to do with safety.
Those who are willing to give up their liberties in exchange for the promise of security will not get and will not deserve either.
Here, BTW, is what people in the UK (land of the sheeple) do to their speed cameras (which they call “gatsos”): http://www.speedcam.co.uk/gatso2.htm
Of course, I’d never suggest that Americans, armed with 300 million guns, and with access to a myriad of other explosive or burning chemicals, do anything like the English. Nope, I’d never suggest it - but I’d be happy.
I guess she would prefer the braver approach of shooting out the cameras...
You got that right. My spouse and I call policemen “revenue enhancers”. That is their main function now. But they won’t be getting any more from us. Nope, we creep along like grannies now.
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