Police chief denounces 'cowardly' iPhone users monitoring speed traps [DC angry about lost $]

Washington Examiner ^

[MrB]

Good point.

Speed cameras do NOTHING to slow drivers down for safety reasons.
And if slowing them down is the point, then they are worthless.

Obviously, slowing drivers is not the point.

[alarm rider]

“It's designed to circumvent law enforcement — law enforcement that is designed specifically to save lives.”

BS. It's just another way to get the last dime out of your pocket.

Personally, I fully support any way to beat these things 100%. I have to drive through no less than 4 of the damn things just to get home. It's just robbery and totalitarian conduct on the part of elected officials and the cops that support them.

[alarm rider]

The Chief is a she. Affirmative action hire.

[cabojoe]

US Red light cameras and speed trap points of interest to load into your GPS: http://www.gps-data-team.com/poi/united_states/safety/

[sfvgto]

I think just about all of them do.......

[CodeToad]

” law enforcement that is designed specifically to save lives”

Traffic tickets are about revenue. Period.

[Albion Wilde]

The "alarm" is your GPS or iPhone alerting you to a reported camera or speedtrap location.

Oh, thanks for the clarification.

[elkfersupper]

Thanks.

Bastards.

[Niteflyr]

I just got the free application Trapster for my iPhone...;o)

[HereInTheHeartland]

I have always said; let the revenue from the red light cameras and other automated things, just be directed to the state or federal government. The local departments and governments would get no financial benefit from them.

Then we would see how important the “safety” aspect really is for these things to exist!

They would disappear in less than a month.

[elkfersupper]

Great to know that people are still asserting the right to travel without encountering armed highwaymen.

I only wish they would focus their attention on the bandits in Congress.

[rbmillerjr]

As somebody who used to commute into DC, I think this is sweet.

If the technology is readily available I will use this to dissuade local county govt. from going this route, which they are attempting at this point.

[elkfersupper]

Who the he!! put a woman in charge of police for the Nation's Capital?

That's a man, baby.

[elkfersupper]

Well, don't people slow down when they know there is radar? Seems to me like it does save lives.

Not when they have to divide their attention between the alarms, the speed cameras, the marked and unmarked cops and the road.

[CSM]

“In Maryland there is a gang of teenagers that take digital pics of their teacher’s plates, blow them up, put them on their own cars and spend Saturday night speeding and running red lights.”

OK, I don’t care who you are, that thar is funny!

[CSM]

Guilty!

[Harrius Magnus]

[Freedom2specul8]

Bookmarked...

[Eaker]

In Maryland there is a gang of teenagers that take digital pics of their teacher's plates, blow them up, put them on their own cars and spend Saturday night speeding and running red lights. Makes for a really pissed off teacher the next week!

Great idea!

[bamahead]

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