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Arizona Backs Off Its Speed Camera Program
crimeandpunishment writes to inform us that Arizona is putting the brakes to a controversial and contentious speed camera program. The cameras have been used along highways in the Phoenix area and in vans throughout the state. While the cameras are used throughout the country, Arizona's program was the widest use of the technology, and the decision to drop it is a setback for those who argue that the cameras slow speeders, reduce accidents, and free up police for more serious matters. "The camera program was instituted by Brewer's predecessor, Janet Napolitano, now the Homeland Security secretary. Cameras were introduced in September 2008 and were added until all 76 were up and running by January 2009. Lawmakers considered repeal proposals within months, but set the issue aside and appealed for calmer debate when a passing motorist fatally shot a camera-van operator doing paperwork in his marked vehicle in April 2009."
Why not repurpose them and put them on the border? You know, since Arizona is so into stopping illegals...
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Too many idiots go flying through construction zones putting construction works and other motorists in danger.
Cite?
Specifically that people speeding in construction zones is an actual problem in AZ that causes injuries/deaths.
if you want to live in a big brother country I would suggest china. They even do the thinking for you. The US does not need this kind of crap, especially when speeding cameras are only about money and not about safety.
the cities and counties are still free to spam the roads with red-light and speeding cameras. You can't win against these things because there's too much money involved and it's going to private companies who then give half of it to the reelection campaigns of corrupt local officials. Once again, capitalism at it's finest.
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Asking for cites is trolling now? No wonder there is so much bullshit here and so little truth.
Asking for cites is trolling now? No wonder there is so much bullshit here and so little truth.
So slashdot is now to become slashwiki? You can't post here unless you cite your sources? Wow. I don't know why you even come here if that is what you think.
The goal here is to make things safer, right? Not enforce arbitrary limits because it makes you feel better.
Wrong. The goal *should* be to make things safer, but in fact it is exactly to enforce an arbitrary limit because it massages a sense of moral superiority.
Just like there are anti-fun-sex ideologues, there are anti-convenient-driving ideologues.
Along the state's southern borders, so they can detect anyone crossing without the proper permit, so they can hold them until someone pays the $100000 fine to release them for illegaly entering Arizona.
"...postponed so that the murder wouldn't influence the decision, the *exact* *opposite* of what you suggest."
Then maybe they should have murdered them all. Laws definitely will change when facing a violent uprising.