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Chicago Sends More Than 100,000 "Bogus" Camera-Based Speeding Tickets

Posted by timothy on from the find-me-a-cop-who-follows-the-traffic-code dept.

Ars Technica, based on an in-depth report (paywalled) at the Chicago Tribune, says that the city of Chicago has been misusing traffic cameras to trigger automated speeding tickets. In particular, these cameras are placed in places where there are enhanced penalties for speeding, putatively intended to increase child safety. The automated observation system, though, has been used to send well over 100,000 tickets that the Tribune analysis deems "questionable," because they lack the evidence which is supposed to be required -- for instance, many of these tickets are unbacked by evidence of the presence of children, or were issued when the speeding rules didn't apply (next to a park when that park was closed).

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  1. Children or not by NaCh0 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The computer doesn't lie about the speeding. People are afraid of these traps exactly because they work so well. (and they drive like a-holes)

    1. Re:Children or not by sexconker · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      You're asking a liberal to use their brain. Good luck with that!

      I know he's a liberal because he took a position, then googled it to find links that looked like they supported it yet didn't read anything at the links, then yelled at everyone for not having read those same things and unquestioningly believed them - to the point that they were "COMMON FUCKING SENSE" - like he did.

      If I had to put my finger on it, I'd guess he's 16-22 years old and white. I'm also sure he has very little driving experience, because anyone with driving experience knows that simple velocity is almost never the primary cause of a collision. Hell, it's rarely even a major contributor.