Speed Trap Cameras are coming

[softailrider]

It's a complete money grab, police / government shakedown.

[Richard]

It's a complete money grab, police / government shakedown.

But new research from Justin Gallagher and Paul J. Fisher finds that these cameras don’t reduce accident numbers at all. Instead, they write, the behavior changes caused by red light cameras among drivers leads to different types of accidents with no change in injury rates.



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In other words, speed cameras did not statistically contribute to an increase or decrease in the number of MVC.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3861844/

Illinois local governments generated more than $1 billion in red-light camera revenue from 2008 to 2018, according to new analysis by the Illinois Policy Institute.

Florida drivers who were caught by red-light cameras paid more than $100 million in traffic fines last year. But whether the cameras made Florida's roads safer — or just swelled state and city coffers — is an open question.
"Three years ago, these red-light cameras were pitched as safety devices," said state Sen. Jeff Brandes, a St. Petersburg Republican who has proposed a state ban on the cameras. "Instead, they've been a backdoor tax increase."

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, in September called for an end to red-light cameras, even though they bring in about $16 million a year to local governments.

Even with traffic cameras there is one party that supports them and another that does not.

Even more interesting is the party that supports them the most,places them in as a majority in the neighborhoods of the people that supports them the most,low income African American communities.

Because they figure those residents will pay the $150 fine before they will pay the $500 in attorney fees to fight it.

Its actually a form of profiling because as a rule you do not see them placed in upper middle or high income éreas,so it is a tax on the poor.