The Georgia camera attack partly comes about because of the abuses you see in the camera industry.
- Per ticket fees that encourage churning.
- No penalty on vendors or cites that break the law (ie illegal placement see Atlanta church article). No warning signs. Heck a Florida bus scameras law requires warning sign on buses, but if not right size or we bet even missing tickets are still “valid”. So if bus scameras side ignores law that is “ok”? Who wrote that “law”, a vendor lobbyist???
- No requirement for refunds on vendors to refund tickets if vendors don’t as one example make sure yellow lights at school zones work.
- No requirement that all zones have warning yellow lights.
- No ethics rules outlawing representatives conflict of interest that include relatives of theirs that work or profit from the industry.
- “Magistrates” or hearing officers that are nothing more than a rubber stamp for the vendor and are usually paid by the city through fines.
- No penalty for obvious false accusations by vendor (wrong plate or vehicle, or no checking.
What you get is a feeling of the officials and vendors rigging the outcome and only care if the camera industry shenanigans make the news.
The scary part is one of these days the industry is going to take the last dollar from the wrong person who will feel there is no law left.
That is when people get hurt.
Ban the cams always advocates peaceful protest and working with others constructively to outlaw traffic camera (and other enforcement camera, pedestrians, bike riders with ai they will come after you next).
Below is what happens when someone feels that there is no justice only a rig system and someone snaps.
Out fear is that based on the clearly lawless behavior of the industry (non functioning yellow on “school zone, bus scameras citing without deployed stop sign, short yellow, a “appeal” process that is a joke, reps who relatives work for the industry and have a vested financial interest. The camera scam will push someone over the edge and people will be hurt.
We don’t want anyone hurt.
Below is what can happen 2009.
The debate over the first statewide speed camera enforcement program in the nation has reached a boiling point following the fatal shooting of a camera operator.