Red light cameras and the “anti-poverty” argument: Disproportionately issued to low income drivers.

Hotair ^ | 12/05/2016 | Jazz Shaw

[spintreebob]

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.

[wbill]

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.

[Iron Munro]

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?

[fishtank]

[fishtank]

Get the joke?

[Responsibility2nd]

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

[eddie willers]

I can’t read cursive.

[Responsibility2nd]

I can’t read cursive

______________________________

“That’s retarded, sir.”

[Mark17]

Wow. Her name is cruelly ironic.

Yes, and most certainly not the truth. 😀

[trisham]

:)

[gaijin]

They SAY “low income” but what they REALLY mean is MEXICAN.

[JimRed]

Disproportionately issued to low income drivers. They are set to edit out violations by Jags, Mercedes and Escalades...

[JimRed]

Disproportionately issued to low income drivers.

They are set to edit out violations by Jags, Mercedes and Escalades...

[Little Ray]

Don’t care for her reasoning, but I like getting rid of the cameras.

[5th MEB]

Well stop running the RED lights.
YELLOW means slow down, caution, prepare to stop.
Not speed up and try to beat the RED.

[fella]

Don’t do the crime

If you can’t pay the fine

[meyer]

Old school:

Green means Go
Red means Stop
Yellow means go like he## ‘cause it’s gonna be red soon.

[Ditter]

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.

[zeugma]

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.

[zeugma]

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.