Comments on: Slow Down… or Else http://www.escapefromamerica.com/2009/11/slow-down-or-else/ Live where you want to live... Live how you want to live... And make money doing it! Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:44:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Brek http://www.escapefromamerica.com/2009/11/slow-down-or-else/comment-page-1/#comment-1137 Brek Sat, 02 Jan 2010 06:22:09 +0000 http://www.escapefromamerica.com/?p=1346#comment-1137 Here in Hesperia, Ca we have way too many red light cameras. It's interesting that you pointed out that they lead to more rear end crashes. People here tend to slam on the breaks as soon as the yellow light appears. No one wanting to take a chance on going through a fraction of a second late. If late the white light goes off and then comes the $500+ ticket in the mail. My opinion is a $500 fine is way excessive and really hurts those who can least afford it. My friends daughter who is in community college got one and it was a real burden on her to pay it. The thought has occured to me that red light cameras should be put on the ballot. In a small city this could certainly be accomplished. If the voters don't abolish them, then I guess they get what they deserve. A good revenue source for their city! There are plastic covers for your license plate that foil the red light cameras. Check ebay. Brek Here in Hesperia, Ca we have way too many red light cameras. It’s interesting that you pointed out that they lead to more rear end crashes. People here tend to slam on the breaks as soon as the yellow light appears. No one wanting to take a chance on going through a fraction of a second late. If late the white light goes off and then comes the $500+ ticket in the mail. My opinion is a $500 fine is way excessive and really hurts those who can least afford it. My friends daughter who is in community college got one and it was a real burden on her to pay it.
The thought has occured to me that red light cameras should be put on the ballot. In a small city this could certainly be accomplished. If the voters don’t abolish them, then I guess they get what they deserve. A good revenue source for their city!
There are plastic covers for your license plate that foil the red light cameras. Check ebay. Brek

]]> By: David Richardson http://www.escapefromamerica.com/2009/11/slow-down-or-else/comment-page-1/#comment-988 David Richardson Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:35:41 +0000 http://www.escapefromamerica.com/?p=1346#comment-988 As a resident of the Denver Metro area (suburbs, not City of Denver, thank God) for nearly thirty years the only surprise I found in your article concerning the cops in Denver was that it took so long for someone to take note. We who live in this area have known about what we call 'revenue enhancement' on the part of our law enforcement agencies for quite some time; the Denver PD is just the worst and most blatant in their use of artificially low speed limits to increase the incidence of speeding tickets. Another is the Aurora PD who specialize in posting temporary reduced speed limits in work zones (even when no road crews are present and no work has occured in quite some time) and then lying in wait for the unwary motorist. This has increased as the city of Aurora experiences unprecedented declines in sales tax revenue. Oddly the city seems to be encouraging its officers to sit for hours at a time in speed traps instead of maximizing their effectiveness by actually patrolling the streets. And whenever you are pulled over by one of these revenue agents in blue you are always urged in the strongest of terms to just mail in the payment without going through the bother of asking for a jury trial. If you are foolish enough to ask for a trial you will also be required to put up a payment of at least $200 to 'cover the costs' of such a trial. In other words if you insist upon standing up for your rights and resist the extortion practiced by the police you will have to pony up even more money before you even get your day in court. And of course since the judges are city employees with their own paychecks on the line they have every incentive to make sure you are found guilty and fined as much as the law will allow. As a resident of the Denver Metro area (suburbs, not City of Denver, thank God) for nearly thirty years the only surprise I found in your article concerning the cops in Denver was that it took so long for someone to take note. We who live in this area have known about what we call ‘revenue enhancement’ on the part of our law enforcement agencies for quite some time; the Denver PD is just the worst and most blatant in their use of artificially low speed limits to increase the incidence of speeding tickets. Another is the Aurora PD who specialize in posting temporary reduced speed limits in work zones (even when no road crews are present and no work has occured in quite some time) and then lying in wait for the unwary motorist. This has increased as the city of Aurora experiences unprecedented declines in sales tax revenue. Oddly the city seems to be encouraging its officers to sit for hours at a time in speed traps instead of maximizing their effectiveness by actually patrolling the streets.

And whenever you are pulled over by one of these revenue agents in blue you are always urged in the strongest of terms to just mail in the payment without going through the bother of asking for a jury trial. If you are foolish enough to ask for a trial you will also be required to put up a payment of at least $200 to ‘cover the costs’ of such a trial. In other words if you insist upon standing up for your rights and resist the extortion practiced by the police you will have to pony up even more money before you even get your day in court. And of course since the judges are city employees with their own paychecks on the line they have every incentive to make sure you are found guilty and fined as much as the law will allow.

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