“......“I am particularly concerned that too many of these tickets have been issued to people who can least afford to pay them, which is counterproductive to our efforts to reverse our city’s troubling rates of poverty,”.......”
I can't wait until the Cities are so addicted to the red-light camera money and so concerned about disproportionately harming people of color and the poor that they propose that red-light camera fines can only be levied on whites and those in the middle class or better. Yes, what I am sure this mayor feels is a need for race-based justice.
Heaven help us from the liberal wack jobs. (/sarcasm)
I loathe red light cameras and photo radar. I’d love to see them eliminated nationwide under whatever pretext. They are nothing more than revenue generators. And the statistical evidence used to justify them has been massaged and cherry picked.
Here in Phoenix the west side of town is by far the most impoverished with high crime and gang activity along with a healthy illegal alien population. You bet your ass there are more accidents than in the more well to do areas. It’s also the nation’s capitol IMHO for hit and run car-pedestrian injuries and fatalities. How many of these ignorant and probably illiterate drivers have insurance let alone a driver license? Yes, it’s bad choices, lack of discipline and lack of forward thinking that keeps the impoverished in the state they’re in. They have no one to blame but themselves.
Her problem isn’t that the majority of violators are poor, it’s that the majority of violators don’t pay their fines.
NEWS-FLASH / NEWS-FLASH: If the "Insurance Institute," is really concerned about lives, then campaign to outlaw the wheel. Just think, no Cars (how many deaths????), no Trains (how many deaths????), no Airplanes (how many deaths????), no Motorcycles, on and on.
"Insurance Institute," is only concerned about how much money $$$$$ it will lose. At the same time trying to shame us all to keep paying for their pawns (Red Light Company's.)