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To all that have scoffed at the idea that safety wasn’t the primary motivating factor for red light and speeding cameras this piece on msnbc, looks suspiciously like investigative journalism.Which living in Phoenix and reading only the AZ Republic you’d be unfamiliar with.

Anyway since most people that read this are thinking, duh! that’s not news I will concede you have a point.It’s not for you it’s for the people that comment every time the local paper prints a story involving cameras.These lovers of all things that remove responsibility jeer at those that may have an alternate view. We’re dismissed on the belief that we’re doing it solely because we’re spoiled children that just want to do what we want. Projection?

I don’t buy that the way to increase responsibility is to provide a surrogate for it that circumvents the need for awareness.This is not a Utopian freedom rant as there are practical applications in the the real world

note. I hate people, oops better expand that :), I hate people that satisfied that the appearance of solving an issue, even when there are doubts to it efficacy ( e.g DARE) are readily conceded , counts for actually doing something. What they don’t get is that they preclude many other paths they could take that may even be effective.That is if your goal is to actually modify behaviour and not set up a revenue stream to keep your organization going.

Speed cameras are just that thing:)

Do red light cameras work too well? - Crime & courts- msnbc.com

*”Did you really think we want those laws observed?” said Dr. Ferris. “We want them to be broken. You’d better get it straight that it’s not a bunch of boy scouts you’re up against… We’re after power and we mean it… There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What’s there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted – and you create a nation of law-breakers – and then you cash in on guilt. Now that’s the system, Mr. Reardon, that’s the game, and once you understand it, you’ll be
much easier to deal with.