What would work better is installing speed plateaus that would require drivers to slow down. That’s what I’m saying. Cameras don’t do that. Especially since they’re already being targeted for vandalism. Waste more money on police surveillance state equipment, or do a cost analysis on whether not just adding speed plateaus would cause much safer driving without increasing gov’t surveillance?
Cameras have been shown to:
1., not fully address the issue by causing drops in speeding or accidents in the area,
2., to instead target lower income and marginalized communities,
3., to march further toward police surveillance states with cop cars that run all license plates in their area, with fears of AI operated cameras with facial recognition, and like I already mentioned,
4., lead to non-police or government agencies to get personal information of drivers in the area,
5., lead to the possibility of third parties without peace officer certification to police the area instead of the police in that jurisdiction,
6., cause jurisdictions to continue to put more and more of these devices in already marginalized communities to increase their tax and police revenue through increased citations.
There are a huge number of reasons that this is bad or could be bad. But, what’s significantly easier is traffic engineering, which doesn’t lead to increased police surveillance states and unfair ticketing.
But, hey. If this community couldn’t be bothered to have speed bumps, or specifically speed plateaus, put in… because it would cause normal drivers the inconvenience of driving up and over them… and they’d rather have cameras put in. 🤷♂️
But, I guess some people there don’t feel the same as them.
What would work better is installing speed plateaus that would require drivers to slow down. That’s what I’m saying. Cameras don’t do that. Especially since they’re already being targeted for vandalism. Waste more money on police surveillance state equipment, or do a cost analysis on whether not just adding speed plateaus would cause much safer driving without increasing gov’t surveillance?
Cameras have been shown to:
1., not fully address the issue by causing drops in speeding or accidents in the area,
2., to instead target lower income and marginalized communities,
3., to march further toward police surveillance states with cop cars that run all license plates in their area, with fears of AI operated cameras with facial recognition, and like I already mentioned,
4., lead to non-police or government agencies to get personal information of drivers in the area,
5., lead to the possibility of third parties without peace officer certification to police the area instead of the police in that jurisdiction,
6., cause jurisdictions to continue to put more and more of these devices in already marginalized communities to increase their tax and police revenue through increased citations.
There are a huge number of reasons that this is bad or could be bad. But, what’s significantly easier is traffic engineering, which doesn’t lead to increased police surveillance states and unfair ticketing.
But, hey. If this community couldn’t be bothered to have speed bumps, or specifically speed plateaus, put in… because it would cause normal drivers the inconvenience of driving up and over them… and they’d rather have cameras put in. 🤷♂️
But, I guess some people there don’t feel the same as them.
Edit: 3.10 “Speed Hump” https://highways.dot.gov/safety/speed-management/traffic-calming-eprimer/module-3-part-2