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Cities View Red Light Cameras As Profit Centers
Houston 2600 writes "Chicago could rake in 'at least $200 million' a year — and wipe out the entire projected deficit for 2009 — by using its vast network of redlight and surveillance cameras to hunt down uninsured motorists, aldermen were told today. The system pitched to the City Council's Transportation Committee by Michigan-based InsureNet would work only if insurance companies were somehow compelled to report the names and license plates of insured motorists. That's already happening daily in 13 states, but not here."
I guess you'll want the insurance companies compelled to give up a database of all delinquent bill-payers so the cops can make productive use of their on-duty time. FOR A CHANGE.
OTOH I don't support the NAZI manifesto nor do I wish law enforcement to be a profit center. Your mileage apparently varies.
The cost of that cleanup, of course, will be borne by taxpayers, not industry.
Yeah, god forbid someone should choose to not pay their protection money.
Seriously though, isn't insurance is able to bring people back from the dead if they were killed in a manner that the insurance is supposed to cover?
And on top of that, it's not like insurance companies ever refuse to pay when someone makes a legitimate claim against them, right?
--Jeremy
Jesus was a liberal
You are an idiot.
You object because people who who intentionly run red lights get caught? Yet lament the fact that there are not enough unintentional red light runners to pay for the system?
Here's a CLUE: red means stop, and stay stopped.
Got it? It's really very simple.
People were predicting this would happen as soon as all these cameras were being installed.
One has to wonder what'll be proposed as the next use of these cameras once they exhaust the supply of uninsured motorists. I'm betting that something else will suddenly become "illegal" and used to justify the continued use of these expensive systems. Anyone know just how much money has been spent on these red light cameras and how much their purchase has contributed to Chicago's budget deficit? Because, frankly, I'm getting a little tired of hearing about what increasingly seems to be self-inflicted red ink in their budget. (Ald. Ed Burke -- the proponent of this use of the cameras -- can't retire or be defeated in his next election soon enough to satisfy me.)
CUR ALLOC 20195.....5804M
What part of "THERE IS NO FUCKING ALTERNATIVE TO OWNING A CAR IN MANY AREAS OF THE COUNTRY" don't you retards understand?
How the fuck are you supposed to "WORK TO BE ABLE TO AFFORD TO OPERATE A CAR" if the only way to get to work is by driving a car?
Just because YOU live in an area of the country where public transportation is readily available doesn't mean that millions of people DON'T.