02-22-2009, 04:35 PM
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Admiral Douchebag
Join Date: Oct 2008
First Name: Tom
Location: Clermont, Kentucky
Posts: 71,873
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Re: Red light camera, a good tool? or profit machi
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Originally Posted by zonedar
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Originally Posted by arstechnica
Six possible red-light "gotcha" stories, some of which go back as far as 2005, were originally reported by theNewspaper, but were compiled into a single list of events by motorists.org. One city, Chattanooga, Tenneessee, has been forced to repay the $8,800 it collected in ticket revenue, while investigations in Lubbock and Dallas, Texas and Springfield, Missouri, have uncovered evidence of similar practices, although no charges have been filed
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6 stories is 5 years hardly qualifies as "lots of evidence", being that there are thousands of cities using the devices.
That being said, it would be naive to say that these aren't set-up, at least in part, to generate revenue. Of course they are.
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