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Red light cameras and the “anti-poverty” argument: Disproportionately issued to low income drivers.
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| 12/05/2016
| Jazz Shaw
Posted on 12/05/2016 1:05:19 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
What is the purpose of a Red Light camera?
#1 Income to the convicted felons who bribe government officials to install them.
#2 Income to City, a smaller cut than the briber. But, of course, the bribes have to come out of his cut.
#3 Invasion of privacy of citizens. Unreasonable search is unreasonable search when it searches (photos) everyone, law abider and law breaker alike, with no reasonable suspicion that the law abider might be a law breaker.
#4 Overwhelming anecdotes of drivers doing stupid stuff to avoid getting caught.
To: SeekAndFind
The studies that were local to us, and performed by a local college, showed that there was a (slight) decrease in fatalities - one, over the course of a year. Statistically insignificant, unless, I suppose, you were the extra single fatality.
There was, however, an enormous increase in PD and injury accidents - think, people jam on their brakes to avoid a ticket, thus causing an accident. Not fatal, but mostly completely avoidable by turning off the "helpful" cameras.
The town's answer was to throw out the data they didn't like, and hire a consultant who would provide them the answer that they wanted, thus ensuring the revenue stream would continue.
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posted on
12/05/2016 1:57:46 PM PST
by
wbill
To: SeekAndFind
Sounds like a clear case of entrapment.
Haven’t democrats in the government been telling them that they don’t have to obey the laws?
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posted on
12/05/2016 1:59:47 PM PST
by
Iron Munro
(If Illegals voted Rebublican 50 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
To: Responsibility2nd
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posted on
12/05/2016 2:00:24 PM PST
by
fishtank
(The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
To: All
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posted on
12/05/2016 2:02:25 PM PST
by
fishtank
(The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
To: fishtank
lololol
I saw that too!!!!
Looks like Lovely and Trayvon’s girlfriend (What was her name? Who cares. It doesn’t matter) are of the same ilk
To: fishtank
To: eddie willers
I cant read cursive
______________________________
“That’s retarded, sir.”
To: trisham
Wow. Her name is cruelly ironic. Yes, and most certainly not the truth. 😀
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posted on
12/05/2016 2:13:54 PM PST
by
Mark17
(20 Years USAF ATCer, Retired. 25 years CDCR CO, Retired)
To: Mark17
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posted on
12/05/2016 2:14:27 PM PST
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: SeekAndFind
They SAY “low income” but what they REALLY mean is MEXICAN.
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posted on
12/05/2016 2:18:35 PM PST
by
gaijin
To: SeekAndFind
Disproportionately issued to low income drivers. They are set to edit out violations by Jags, Mercedes and Escalades...
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posted on
12/05/2016 2:26:04 PM PST
by
JimRed
(Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
To: SeekAndFind
Disproportionately issued to low income drivers. They are set to edit out violations by Jags, Mercedes and Escalades...
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posted on
12/05/2016 2:28:00 PM PST
by
JimRed
(Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
To: SeekAndFind
Don’t care for her reasoning, but I like getting rid of the cameras.
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posted on
12/05/2016 2:31:18 PM PST
by
Little Ray
(Freedom Before Security!)
To: Persevero
Well stop running the RED lights.
YELLOW means slow down, caution, prepare to stop.
Not speed up and try to beat the RED.
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posted on
12/05/2016 2:49:08 PM PST
by
5th MEB
(Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
To: SeekAndFind
Don’t do the crime
If you can’t pay the fine
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posted on
12/05/2016 2:52:02 PM PST
by
fella
("As this iiwas before Noah so shall it be again,")
To: 5th MEB
Old school:
Green means Go
Red means Stop
Yellow means go like he## ‘cause it’s gonna be red soon.
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posted on
12/05/2016 2:52:29 PM PST
by
meyer
(There is no political solution to this troubling evolution...)
To: spintreebob
You forgot reason #6. To be able to prove that the illegal who broadsided and killed my 18 year old son had a red light and my son had a green light.
We got a phone call from someone who was there and saw it all but were never able to find that guy again.
There were not any red light cameras in 1984 but I wish there had been.
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posted on
12/05/2016 3:16:12 PM PST
by
Ditter
(God Bless Texas!)
To: SeekAndFind
According to their studies, cities that ran with red-light cameras between 2010 and 2014 saw a 21 percent drop in the number of fatal red-light-running crashes, while those that turned their systems off saw a 30 percent increase. an increase of 2 seconds to the yellow with a half-second where all lights are red will have the same effect. Obviously, this would not generate revenue, so it is seldom considered.
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posted on
12/05/2016 3:28:42 PM PST
by
zeugma
(I'm going to get fat from all this schadenfreude)
To: dp0622
I told the cop, “I’m not going through the red light”.
She was pi##ed. I didn’t care. The way the law reads in Texas, you could have been ticketed for not proceeding. It's a catch-22.
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posted on
12/05/2016 3:33:42 PM PST
by
zeugma
(I'm going to get fat from all this schadenfreude)
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