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.

[gardyloo]

Was there a Krispy Kreme in that neighborhood?

Re:The police ought to follow the law.

[Seumas]

That's because she was a pirate.

Re:The police ought to follow the law.

[Anonymous Coward]

But we were having so much fun disregarding reason and logic!

Re:In the Netherlands

[siwelwerd]

You laugh, but while I was in undergrad in Tuscaloosa, they had a few traffic signal cameras around town and displayed the feeds on a cable channel (so you could monitor traffic conditions, what not). Some state trooper from out of town was in the office controlling the cameras and was zooming in on college girls on the sidewalks, following them around with the cameras completely oblivious to the fact that these cameras were broadcasting. Here's the writeup in the school paper: http://www.cw.ua.edu/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/09/1 2/3f629e6e6a1fd?template=pda

Re:The police ought to follow the law.

[modecx]

Fuck that. I do not want any more people under the delusion that politicians are meant to be leaders or moral guides. They are employees hired to run the country. They can be depraved ex-child molesters for all I care, so long as they do their jobs properly.

Alright, bub... Which congress-critter are you? Mmmm???

Re:The police ought to follow the law.

[WhatAmIDoingHere]

Yeah, because ambulance drivers are the real problem with this country, right Comrade?

I actually work at a hospital and have lost count of all the times the ambulance drivers have tortured me for just shits and giggles.

Re:The police ought to follow the law.

[SuperQ]

Does my 4 digit UID give me the right to smack you down for suggesting that the absence of evidence is the same as the evidence of absence? Yes.

Ahem.

[thepotoo]

I may not have a 5-digit UID, but I am an expert in the subject of ambulance driving, having completed the Paramedic missions in GTA3, Vice City, and San Andreas.
From my extensive experience in this matter, I have observed that, for every patient saved, an average of 10 people, most of them hookers, are killed.

I can rest my case.