Police Objecting to Tickets From Red-Light Cameras

caffiend666 writes "According to a Dallas Morning News article, any 'Dallas police officer in a marked squad car who is captured on the city's cameras running a red light will have to pay the $75 fine if the incident doesn't comply with state law ... Many police officers are angry about the proposed policy. The prevailing belief among officers has been that they can run red lights as they see fit.' Is this a case for or against governments relying on un-biased automated systems? Or, should anyone be able to control who is recorded on camera and who is held accountable?"

Comments

Re:The police ought to follow the law.

[SQLz]

What about fire trucks, should we ticket them as well? And ambulances?

Fuck, fuck, fuck tha police

[Rogerborg]

Seriously, fuck them. I drive past a station twice a day, and frequently see the fucking pigs going off duty pull out of it in their own cars, usually without a seatbelt, then go screaming off up the 30mph residential street, the same one on which their piggy brethren often mount a speed tax trap. So, basically, fuck their pudgy white hypocritical porcine asses, fuck them sideways with a LIDAR gun, and lets see them held to the same standard that they hold us to. They need to justify every Goddamn infraction that they're caught performing, just the same way we are.

Re:The police ought to follow the law.

[StikyPad]

No, it's just a case of the cure being worse than the disease. If a cop runs a light and there's an accident, investigate it. If there's not, well, no harm no foul.

Anyway, I've never, ever seen a cop go through an intersection without his lights on, and most of the time they're pretty hesitant even with lights and sirens blaring (especially bike cops) because they know better than anyone that other drivers just don't pay attention, and often can't hear sirens over their blaring radios anyway.

That said, there was a case of a cop who was killed while running a red light here a few months back (with no lights, which contradicts my anecdotal experience), but I'm pretty sure he won't do it anymore.

Re:The police ought to follow the law.

[QuantumG]

wait until it's your (sibling/parent/child/grandchild/grandparent/signi ficant other/friend) in the back of that ambulance, and then tell me how you feel. Way to make an emotional argument.