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Originally Posted by anamardoll
One of the many reasons why I want those laws overturned.
I actually know someone who was sitting at the stoplight when ANOTHER car ran the light. The picture grabbed my co-worker's license instead and sent them a ticket. It actually costs money to 'challenge' (I.e., make them replay the video and LOOK at it) the ticket, and that money is NOT refunded upon winning the challenge. (In my area, at least.)
Totally does not disproportionately affect the poor, no sir.  |
At least in my State in the US, even if it is a physical human being (officer) who pulls you over and gives you a ticket, it costs you money to fight it. Ignoring likely time off from work you have to take, even if you win in court against the ticket, you MUST still pay the court fee. It is low, but that is still roughly $18 you should never have to pay, especially if found innocent.
Or in other cases there are speed cameras setup simply as revenu generating devices, and not for real societal benifit. My wife got a speed camera ticket right next to our neighborhood a few weeks ago. There are all of 3 houses along the quarter mile stretch of road, no businesses or anything else. The speed limit is 30 (she was doing 42) and she was caught at the bottom of a steep hill (which you have to brake to keep at the speed limit just coasting).
Contrasted to my neighborhood of roughly 200 townhomes with a speed limit of 30mph where people regularly drive in excess of 40mph and plenty who drive over 50mph. Also where 3 years ago a child was hit and killed by a speeding car that swerved around a parked school bus.
My neighborhood road is NOT speed camera enforced, nor have I once in the last 5 years of living here seen a single police officer running radar or laser to enforce the speed limit nor any county proposals to place speed bumps or similar along the road despite numerous appeals by myself and neighbors.
But that road right next to our neighborhood which has almost no one living on it, no businesses and no road hazards has a speed camera van that gets parked right at the bottom of the hill once or twice a month.