Anyone who ever thought these were for "safety" probably also believes that Democrats "really care".
Lies. It's about the $, pure and simple.
There are posters on this forum who actually believe that LEOs are motivated by public safety instead of revenue.
They need to sit in our traffic court and listen to the judge hand out kudos to the traffic patrolman who brings in a big sheaf of tickets.
and that he probably should have included "an extra sentence about public safety" in his letter to Mrs. Cropp....
OK, who left the barn door open?
There's a red light camera case here in NC that is probably 3 years old. It's getting continually kicked up to higher courts. The superior court judge in the case ruled that state statues demand all proceeds collected from law enforcement traffic fines be used for educational purposes, less administrative fees, not to exceed 10%.
The company that installs and maintains the cameras gets about 60% of the $50 fine. A reduction to 10% would kill the program.
Of course, that won't happen until this case makes it to the USSC, which is what the local attorney was aiming for all along. And that won't happen for another couple or few years.
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Looks like they want to circumvent Congress with a local slush fund.
Just consider how much of your local police force time is spent enforcing piddling traffic laws that produce lots of revenue but little real benefit, and how much is spent solving and preventing burglaries, which produces real benefit but little revenue, and voila, the lack of emperor's clothes is revealed.
A person would have to have the IQ of a potato not to have figured out from the access that it was about money and has absolutely nothing to do with safety...well, except for maybe the safety of their revenues. Either way, it is wrong.
Don't want to pay the fine, don't run the red light :)
Luckily, the red light cams will be found to be inherently racist because they catch more black drivers than white drivers.
I'm glad cops don't have quotas. That would be wrong.
Revenues is the driving force and main purpose of governments, great and small these days-they pursue revenues with the same desperate urgency of a junkie seeking their next fix.
There are no more cops, they are tax collectors.
We have so few real criminals in this country that we have to import them from Mexico and not deport them when they are caught.
Remember that it's in the pigs' best interest to catch a real criminal here and there to make it look like they are doing their job. If they were to throw all the criminals in jail, they would be out of a job.
On the freeway the other day, there was an idiot that decided to stop in the middle lane of traffic going 75MPH, and then turn around and go in the wrong direction in the left lane.
Why don't cops see these sort of things? Because they are hiding under an overpass.
I was in NM once and I look over to the car next to me on the freeway and see a woman downing a 40oz beer while driving ~80MPH, with a infant in the front seat. I called 911, and they told me that wasn't an emergency. I then called the non-emergency number and couldn't get through.
A new revenue scam where I live is where a extremely attractive female cop that is scantily clad will start flirting with you and ask to go to a motel or some such place and have some fun.
If you don't immediately walk away they will arrest you for prostitution or "soliciting sex in a public place." Even if you say "no" they may still arrest you. They will tell you that you can pay a fine and no one has to know about it or you can take it to trial where you will be humiliated.
They target middle-aged males with a wedding ring on who would rather not have to explain to their wife and kids that they really weren't soliciting sex. Needless to say, most people choose to pay the fine. If someone calls their bluff and asks for a trial, the cops drop the case since they know they'll lose.
License-plate spray foils traffic cameras
By Steve Sexton
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Motorists have litigated against them, fired bullets at them and thrown garbage on them — all to get back at the traffic cameras that have caught them in the act of running a red light or speeding.
Now they have a new weapon in their arsenal, and it comes in a can for $29.99. A clear spray called Photoblocker can be applied to license plates to make them hyper-reflective and unreadable when the camera flashes.
... (snip)
disturbing.