Why is it only backwards (smaller) cities have red light cameras?

[ROLLTIDE]

Have you ever noticed that?... cool progressive cities don't install them.

Whenever I see them I know I'm in a stinkhole of a town.

[Joe-Nathan]

Yes we do have them here in Lafayette, LA, but I would not call us backwards. I do not like them. I usually give the camera the ol' one finger salute when I pass them.

NOTE: Houston (one of the five largest cities) had them before we did.

It is funny watching traffic speeding down the road, then they slow down at the red light Camera, and then they speed up after the intersection.

Our red light cameras are also speed cameras.

[ROLLTIDE]

I didn't call LA backwards

[ced_pearlandtx]

Houston has lots of them and we are backwards. Just because we are big doesn't mean we can't find alternative revenue sources.

Good thing you did not call LA backwards Roll, then you would have AL

[Squirrelmonkey]

mUnkIe HaTe bIg BroThEr

[Katfive]

Houston has lots of them and we are backwards. Just because we are big doesn't mean we can't find alternative revenue sources.

Good thing you did not call LA backwards Roll, then you would have AL

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Squirrelmonkey]

Houston has lots of them and we are backwards. Just because we are big doesn't mean we can't find alternative revenue sources.

Good thing you did not call LA backwards Roll, then you would have AL

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! X 2

[Daniel294]

Have you ever noticed that?... cool progressive cities don't install them.

Whenever I see them I know I'm in a stinkhole of a town.

Los Angeles has plenty of them.

What do red light cameras matter anyhow? Don't run red lights, don't trigger the sensor. Seems easy enough.

[Katfive]

Los Angeles has plenty of them.

What do red light cameras matter anyhow? Don't run red lights, don't trigger the sensor. Seems easy enough.

So then you don't have a problem with a National Database of fingerprints or DNA for all in the country either, right? Don't commit a crime, don't get arrested. Seems easy enough.

[Daniel294]

So then you don't have a problem with a National Database of fingerprints or DNA for all in the country either, right? Don't commit a crime, don't get arrested. Seems easy enough.

Having DNA and fingerprints doesn't endanger the people around you. Since the camera only triggers if you run the light, your analogy fails.

[Katfive]

Having DNA and fingerprints doesn't endanger the people around you. Since the camera only triggers if you run the light, your analogy fails.

The DNA & Fingerprints only trigger when there is a match. It's all big brother keeping an eye on you.

[wxchaser420]

Because theyre broke as hell and need to make money anyway they can.

[Daniel294]

The DNA & Fingerprints only trigger when there is a match. It's all big brother keeping an eye on you.

Your analogy still doesn't make any sense. If you said a "DNA and fingerprints database of all people who were arrested", it would be a fair analogy. And if you're not guilty and don't have to pay the fine, don't they destroy the photos anyhow? So then it would be a DNA and fingerprint database for convicted criminals.

[Katfive]

Well, there's no due process, you never get to face your accuser, (because it's a camera), so all accused are automatically guilty. Apply that same standard to the DNA and fingerprint database. Anyone ever arrested for anything would have it collected. You don't get to question the accuser, and it stays in the database forever. Is that more to your liking?

[Daniel294]

Well, there's no due process, you never get to face your accuser, (because it's a camera), so all accused are automatically guilty. Apply that same standard to the DNA and fingerprint database. Anyone ever arrested for anything would have it collected. You don't get to question the accuser, and it stays in the database forever. Is that more to your liking?

You are allowed to challenge a red light photo.

[ced_pearlandtx]

Red light cameras are not about safety, you can run as many as you want and as long as you pay your $75 - you're good.

It is all about a revenue source for the government.

My girls have each received one in a car registered to my wife. One was at 2:30 AM at a deserted intersection. The other was a right turn and she went through an obviously clear intersection 2 seconds after the light had changed at 8 MPH - law says you must stop before right on red so $75 more for Texas.

[kobayashi]

Sorry, the perpetually shortsighted major US city otherwise known as "The District" was an early leader in speed cameras and red light cameras, frequently placed at the end of a slower speed zone commuter traffic artery where they can harvest millions.

[Katfive]

You are allowed to challenge a red light photo.

For what reason? You think the camera was racially profiling you when it pulled you over? Or maybe there's a video put out there of the camera beating you with a baton during the stop? You can challenge anything you want, the only allowance given in the area I live in is for an emergency vehicle going through the intersection - there are no other defenses even heard in the court.

[Daniel294]

For what reason? You think the camera was racially profiling you when it pulled you over? Or maybe there's a video put out there of the camera beating you with a baton during the stop? You can challenge anything you want, the only allowance given in the area I live in is for an emergency vehicle going through the intersection - there are no other defenses even heard in the court.

Depends. I've heard of challenges of it wasn't your car or inconclusive photo going through just fine.

Otherwise, what's the point of challenging in the first place?

[Katfive]

I suspect it's the same Constitutuional right to privacy that libs are always falling back on for all other arguments: (abortion, DNA, profiling). In the end, I don't want them to take a picture of my damned car, the only way they can prove it was me is to photograph me inside, and that's infringing on my right to privacy? You'll notice that most municipalities never photograph the driver for that reason, so where's the proof?