Responding to both posts.McAvoy wrote: ↑Thu May 15, 2025 3:15 am Now with those lights with cameras. Philly has them. I just got one $100 for basically running a red light for a left hand turn. They got me in the act. I was probably rushing to make the light and didn't make it.
Now compare that to another situation where I did the same thing. I accelerated to make the yellow light before it turned redvand didn't make it. There was a cop who saw me do it. With that cop, I got out of it due to my honesty. He let me go. Before Fuzzy or someone else say I was let go because I was white, I will say this: Nope my skin color had nothing to do with it. It is how it is in my area.
The cameras eliminate that interaction but also allows that police district to gain more money from fees. Fees you really cannot argue against. It's cold and calculated.
First you showed nicely there is a line. Thank you.
Now for the second I feel you have a point. There was a couple that kept getting speeding tickets in the same spot on their pickup truck. The one parked in front of their house. The camera was misaligned and every speeder set it off and caught their vehicle. Forcing them to go to court and fight them. At one point the police went out and redirected the camera. Tickets to them stopped for a month. Till the private company that ran the camera 'fixed' it and the fiasco started all over again.
I can agree there are issues with the system. Serious ones.
But we need to make the right arguments. A traffic camera is not an invasion of privacy unless it is looking in your window.
Police currently have such a crap record with cameras I think them saying you don't need to record them is like them saying you don't need a lawyer.
