New Police Device Can Track 30 Potential Speeders At a Time
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Police officers and their radar guns can only catch one speeder at a time. Speed cameras are in the same boat, though they can photograph more than an officer handing out tickets. But both of these methods may soon step aside for a new device is that can track more than 30 cars at the same time.
Cordon, a program developed by Peak Gain Systems, can monitor the speed and license plates of traffic that’s coming and going spanning across four lanes. And, according to Gizmodo, it can see this information for up to 32 cars at the same time.
Watch traffic from Cordon’s point-of-view:
As Colorado’s News 9 NBC affiliate notes in its report, speeders who used to feel safe in the pack are no longer safe. The program categorizes cars by color: green is legal, yellow means over the limit and red means you’re going fast enough for a ticket.
Reports are that this technology will not begin rolling out in the U.S. until 2012.
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Comments (194)
Cold War Vet
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 3:36amAnother dishonest and crooked way for out-of-control government to steal money from American citizens. A progressive idea from our evil friends, the progressives!
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 3:44amYou are correct sir!
Report Post »Cat
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 3:55amLet’s see … Think like a progressive (ARRRGGGH)
Idea …A device that can track 32 vehicles speeding on multilane highways
Benefit …Even if less then half of them are speeding, that would still mean more revenue than a single patrol car stopping a single motorist, taking the time to check the motorist’s record, and if the motorist is a decent individual, they’ll take the ticket and select their poison, traffic school, or go to court.
Action … Implement the idea to get lots of money
In a CORDON scenario, the motorist has no idea they’re being monitored, gets a ticket in the mail a few days la … NO WAIT!
Report Post »The authorities contact the bank and an automatic withdrawal is made to pay the infraction.
(Why not, they know EVERYTHING about the motorist, including their SS#, bank account, their dog’s name, etc.)
The bank notifies the authorities that there are insufficient funds in the motorist’s account.
The ticket is not paid, as well as the automatic bill payment for the electricity.
The motorist panics and contacts the bank inquiring why the electric bill was not paid.
Meanwhile, at the motorist’s front door, the authorities show up with an arrest warrant
The motorist has no clue what has just happened and struggles with the arresting officers
The motorist is cuffed and charged with resisting arrest
And on, and on …
Boy … this is great!
hidden_lion
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 6:38amIf it was really about safety they would require speed limiters to be installed in all cars. They just use it to juice up revenue.
Report Post »Mil-Dot
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 6:58amYeah, that is what law enforcement is all about. Getting more money out of the working stiffs. I used to be pro law enforcement but over the last 20 years or so I have seen them change into something that I don’t like anymore.
Report Post »Polwatcher
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 7:48amBig brother is getting much too close. Technically, this is amazing… in the same sense as mind control.
Report Post »lel2007
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 8:01amIsn’t it dishonest and crooked to violate the posted speed limit? Or are you suggesting speed limits exist only to collect money from those who exceed them?
Report Post »DTOM_Jericho (Creator vindicator)
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 8:50amThis is why there should be no pigs at all. If all law enforcement was elected (Sheriff), they can be voted out by the people. That’s the easiest and constitutional way to fight corruption.
Cops do not have a vested interest in firing cops. Every cop you fire is one less cop paying into other cops’ pension fund. “To protect and SERVE” should be an elected (or appointed by and elected official) position. Your county has a Sheriff with a bunch of crooked deputies? Vote in a new Sheriff and the deputies are relieved from duty, day one. Just deputies stay in place.
Law enforcement is not a “job” it’s a duty. Additionally, cops are not “jobs” in the first place. They do not add revenue, the steal revenue from the tax payers. (their “salaries” are paid with tax money)
No permanent standing armies (unconstitutional). Cops are the lap dogs of the progressives. The whole, “it’s leftist to hate cops” is smoke and mirrors. Cops are unconstitutional. You take away the lap dogs and the progressives have no teeth to enforce their enslavement. They will fear the people.
“When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.”
Report Post »ashestoashes
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 9:20am@LEL2007..”.Isn’t it dishonest and crooked to violate the posted speed limit? Or are you suggesting speed limits exist only to collect money from those who exceed them?” You must either be a police officer or someone in the revenue department…In either case…I would bet you are someone who speeds…Cops do…and so do others in other forms of government not to mention professional curtesy when they are cayght and let go. But the potential here is…two or three or even eight cars are speeding…and this monitor potentially waits until speeding cars come upon a pack of other cars..some doing the speed limit.some going 5 mi. an hr over..some 3 and so on…now you”re going to tell me that this device can accurately decipher the accuracy of each car there which bears said license plate….there is no proof that this is or willl ever be accurate…Too many variables…
Report Post »Jack1988
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 10:39amagree!
Report Post »V-MAN MACE
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 11:27amHey, this is public servants whos services we can no longer afford using our tax dollars to erect a revenue enhancement structure!
Nazi Revenue Generator 2.0!
Highway Robbery at its finest!
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 11:35amDead on target.
Report Post »rpd911
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 11:39amDTOM, the cops are not the lap dogs of the progressives. Most cops are Conservative Republicans or their Ideas of Government lean Libertarian. These cameras could be great. You do not have a RIGHT to travel on the highways and byways of the country, it is a privilege. States and or Feds build the highways and can therefore regulate how they are used. You speed you get a ticket. The problem with no officer behind the radar here is that you lose the officer’s discretion to issue the ticket, which most officers will use when dealing with simple speeders. Also, you lose the officer’s ability to determine other criminal activity afoot. Not all cops are bad, most are not. I myself am and I am a member of the Oath Keepers. Police officers are hired yes, usually by or with approval of the Chief of Police who has been appointed by a City Council and Mayor, all of whom are elected officials. You have a problem with your local police, then change your City Council and Mayor and have them address the issues with the leadership, i.e. the Chief and command staff, most of which can be immediately let go without reason. Police Officers and the authority they have is not unconstitutional. They would fall under the authority of the state and states rights to govern and police their own population. Now, if you had Federal Police on patrol throughout your cities and state, that might border on an unconstitutional establishment of a police state.
NickyLouse
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 12:08pmWould you take awaty their pistols too?
Report Post »VoteBushIn12
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 12:25pmSo you are mad that the police are getting better at catching criminals? Speeding on the highway is a CRIME, and this new technology will help keep millions of law abiding citizens safe by punishing those that take it upon themselves to break the law. You don’t want to get a ticket? then drive the speed limit.
Are you upset that convenient stores have cameras to deter, and if need be prosecute, would be robbers? It’s the same thing! You just view it differently because this targets YOU as the criminal (and don’t fool yourself, if you break the limit you are a criminal of sorts)
The fact that you consider ticketing for speeding a form of the government over-stepping their bounds shows just how freely, and with what little discretion, you will use that terminology. Like the boy who cried wolf, I will remember to take all your future posts with a grain of salt.
Report Post »VoteBushIn12
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 12:34pm@ashestoashes
Just because you don‘t understand technology doesn’t mean it doesn‘t exist or work the way it’s promised. Because YOU are unable to determine the speed and license number of 30 cars is not “proof” that a computer can’t. Can you divide a 6 digit number by 6 digit decimal in a millisecond? Do not doubt the power of the computer.
I am not only confident that this technology is capable, I am happy to see it implemented. You don’t know at what limit they will consider issuing a ticket – nor can you be sure the system DOESN’T check your driving history to issue warnings in some cases.
Some states currently implement a method to track grotesque speeders by determining the time between their use of speed passes at toll points. If you know the distance between tolls you can determine the average speed of the car. Does that scare you too?
Technology is a wonderful thing, embrace it. Without it you wouldn’t be able to connect to this web site and speak your peace.
Report Post »SgtB
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 12:55pm@LEL2007,
I’ll go ahead and say that ALL speed limits are to create revenue and usurp our rights. In fact, if there were no speed limit signs, people would just drive at a speed they felt comfortable with and not the “correct” speed for the road. This would mean that in rain, people would slow down. At night, people would slow down. In the dry and sunny along a straight patch of asphalt on the great plains with a few miles of visibility, traffic would speed up, and rightly so.
Do you know that in the mountains of southern california there are no speed limit signs? The reason being that the road limits the speed of motorists itself. And if you suggest that I am saying that it is okay to drive 100 down a residential street with children playing, you’re dead wrong. The known possibility of a child wandering into the roadway in a neighborhood limits the speed that any sane person would travel. So in both cases, curves and kids, the speed at which a motorist travels is self regulating, or at least it should be.
By posting speed limits, you take away the driver’s perceived need to judge what speed is safe (and that speed is different for every person and every vehicle) and you end up with a bunch of people driving, not paying attention to the road and their surroundings except to notice small white rectangles with black numbers and matching that to the dial or display on their dashboard. That is not an increase in safety.
Report Post »B-Neil
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 1:01pmSir! you hit the financual wast pouch right on the head.
Report Post »DTOM_Jericho (Creator vindicator)
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 1:01pm@RPD
“Most cops are Conservative Republicans or their Ideas of Government lean Libertarian.”
Prove that. I don’t need to prove your statement is false. It is your job to prove it is true.
Your post does nothing to give them any legitimate, constitutional power to exist. You cannot be conservative in government views and be in a PUBLIC UNION. That is not libertarian either. Aside from all that, they are a permanent standing army and that is illegal. Public unions are progressive pawns and thus on the same side. It‘s not my fault if cops can’t realized they are being used and setup.
I don’t care one way or the other about the camera system. It’s just a tool to rule and a chance for me to befuddle know-it-all cops that think they are helping. Changing a sheriff that must be voted for, is much easier (and constitutional) than changing a state/city hierarchy which is receiving FEDERAL money (think Tarp and stimulus).
No badges should be funded for more than two years at a shot and should be RAISED for service(not a job) from the community. See the constitution. I don’t have a problem paying constitution servants.
As an oath keeper, if you are an EMS worker, fire fighter or military, I thank you. If you are a cop… to keep your oath, you should quit the force today. Thus stopping your membership in a gang of public union thuggery.
I don’t think it is a right to drive, I am not sure why you think I do.
Report Post »V-MAN MACE
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 1:11pmrpd911
You cannot restrict my freedom by erecting roads all over the country like a web that cuts people off from other people, and then claim that we have no right to travel on them, that it’s a privelege. It’s not a privelege, it’s freedom of movement. Restricting freedom starts with restricting freedom of movement. Freedom of movement is not a privelege given by the state. This is tyrannical police state action.
States and or Feds do build the roads… with OUR tax dollars, so they have no right to tell us its a privelege to travel on them or across them.
We have a right to face our accuser in court, and it cannot be some machine. In Ohio, the Supreme Court has ruled that officers have no burden of proof for speeding tickets, all they have to do is say they saw you. That’s tyranny, a violation of due process. The people will not be preyed upon for revenue by out-of-control public servants, and treated like criminals with warrantless checkpoints like Nazi Germany.
Police officers are being federalized through the Department of Homeland Security, so you are wrong about that. I support the Oathkeepers. Whenever government needs money, they start preying on the public for revenue, using our tax dollars to erect a revenue generating structure. This is NOT for safety. This is for $$$$$$$$$$.
And they’re not “just doing their job”. The public is broke, and the Feds just pay the cops anyway and put it on our tab, then they prey on us for more revenue.
Report Post »SgtB
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 1:12pm@RPD 911,
I also guess you hadn’t heard of the TSA conducting vehicle searches along the highway yet. Look it up. It has started happening. And people with a lax attitude towards these abuses only embolden the people who would like to have us live in an even stronger police state.
Report Post »V-MAN MACE
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 1:32pmVoteBushIn12
Nobody believes your stupid “for your safety” argument. Everything the government does TO the people is now magically “for our safety”.
Everyone knows this is revenue enhancement- a highway tax, highway robbery, etc., by entitled unionized public servants who’s services we can no longer afford, and they’re incompetent anyway.
Yea, lets go after the crime at our discretion, and our discretion says go after the crimes that generate the most revenue… like loud music tickets and speed traps like Linndale, Ohio, run by a kangaroo court where the mayor is the judge, and his family members are the clerk of courts, etc.
Loud music tickets are more than speeding tickets in Cleveland. Court Costs are as much as any ticket, so you get taxed just for appearing AND a fine. Court Costs in Cleveland is $140.
Nobody can fight these tickets and win… the court is corrupt and tilted in the public servant’s favor, because the judge, the cops, the court reporters, the clerk, public defender, all of them, are dependent on preying on the public for revenue. They’re leeches. Parasites.
It’s not the same as a robber in a convenience store, and trying to compare that to speeding is a JOKE. Its pointing a finger at the public and saying “pay me”. Meanwhile, somebody is actually robbing a convenience store and shooting the clerk while that fat Nazi sits under the billboard like a lion preying, eating donuts and writing tickets.
Report Post »VoteBushIn12
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 2:18pm@V-MAN MACE
You’re a hack and a joke.
If you don’t want the fat nazi pig cops getting any of your hard earned money then drive the speed limit and none of this will impact your life at all. But that’s not really what you want, is it.
You want a dystopia where everyone can only do those things that YOU find acceptable, and no one can do those things you find deplorable.
You have an arbitrary scale with which you judge morality. Robbing a convenient store is bad but speeding on the highway isn’t.
What if I created a device that could identify drunk drivers, track them, and route police officers to their location in order to arrest them. Would you be for this system? Surely, because drunk drivers clearly endanger lives and are responsible for over 30,000 deaths annually.
Well speeding poses some similar dangers – it reduces reaction distance, it increases the damage in the event an accident takes place, and – most importantly – it is easily preventable.
All this system does is encourages you to think twice before you break the law and put other people’s lives in harms way. It doesn’t PREVENT you from speeding – it simply holds you accountable if you do.
That’s not a dystopia, that’s a Utopia and only the criminally minded would disagree.
Report Post »qzak491
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 4:24pmWhat happens if the one driving the car is not the one it’s registered to, can we sue the government or the people that made the thing.
Report Post »V-MAN MACE
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 4:35pmDon’t get mad because your “safety” argument fails. I’m out there protesting these Nazis regularly. I’m not new to this, I’m true to this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBVVfed4cpA
This isn’t just about speeding, it‘s about the financially insolvent government using tax dollars to build a citizen surveillance grid that the FREE citizens DON’T WANT- all to generate revenue. Can you comprehend that? People are tired of being preyed upon for revenue. It has never been about safety. They must criminalize everything in order to generate more revenue, like going “too fast” on a highway with arbitrarily set speed limits based on nothing in reality except a whim.
Additionally, the system is structured such that the cost of fighting these citations exceed just paying the citation, because you WILL NOT WIN against the cops and the judge, it’s in their interest for a conviction and a nice fat fine. Their salaries depend on it. And don‘t you DARE say cops don’t have quotas, because everyone knows that’s a LIE.
You say I want a dystopic world, but that’s exactly what the Nazi cops and judges have created, a world where everything is ok if THEY arbitrarily say so (like speed limits), and not ok at their discretion, which is usually “How much money can I make off this citizen?“ and ”How much power can I assume?”
The same cops you defend regularly BREAK the speeding laws, yet cite citizens. That’s truly criminal minded.
Report Post »StacyR
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 5:46pmYou are stupid sir. This is just what they wan’t – to divide us and conquer us. Wake up idiots.
FIGHT THE CAUSE – NOT THE SYMPTOM
Read “Common Sense 3.1” at ( http://www.revolution2.osixs.org )
This is what a real American patriot does.
Report Post »V-MAN MACE
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 5:53pmThe Nazi cops already picked their side, and it is the side of TYRANNY.
Real public servants stand with the public, like the REAL Oathkeepers.
Only bootlickers who live in a false sense of security defends police state expansion.
Report Post »V-MAN MACE
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 5:58pmI am fighting the cause and the symptom simultaneously.
The Fed who funds the police state is the cause, because they’re criminals, they must criminalize everyone in order that we the people don’t bring them all to justice.
The Police State and the surveillance grid being erected is the symptom, and I say it’s time for some civil disobedience, even if we are paying for it with tax dollars.
Vandalize and/or destroy the cameras.
Resist.
Report Post »ashestoashes
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 10:53pmVOTEBUSH12 Hi…although I appreciate your level of intelligence…we cannot be and neither can you..be sure that this technology will not be abused… And there would be no way of disputing it because they would be right,,even though they may not be. Are you really that happy about big brother watching your every move.? And as far as toll booths go..I have never been through one that I can remember. I like the feeling of freedom..Have you ever felt free? If you haven’t..I hope you try it some day…I think that you would find it exhilarating.. come on Bush12..walk on the wild side a little.
Report Post »SgtB
Posted on November 3, 2011 at 12:30am@ votebushin2012,
By your line of reasoning we should all drive no faster than we can individually run because that is the safest speed that we can humanly travel because it is the speed at which we can naturally travel. You are the JOKE.
There is nothing immoral about driving fast. Just like there is nothing immoral about driving at all. You cannot compare depriving someone else of their right to property (aka, theft) with speeding. The two acts are simply not comparable.
You did however mention that speeding has some draw backs in safety. I’ll agree. Whe you travel faster, the reaction time between seeing an obstacle and doing something about it is the same as if you are at a crawl, but you travel further during that time. BUT, you have already forgotten that interstates outside of metropolitan areas are designed for an average speed of 120mph and that when a person has 100+ foot of space on each shoulder, no traffic, and a large median with trees to protect oncoming traffic in case you do have an accident, there is not a reason in the world why that person should be given a ticket for doing 80 in a 70. It is simply a way to pay police officers and judges. That is all it is there for. As the old saying goes, if there aren’t enough criminals, make some. I guess your okay with that mentality. I’m not!
I am also an Oathkeeper, Marine Corps veteran, and Ron Paul supporter. Don’t like it? Then go somewhere else.
Report Post »Hollow
Posted on November 3, 2011 at 5:18amIt make sense to me when I think about it’s just efficient and they are speeding.
Report Post »VoteBushIn12
Posted on November 3, 2011 at 10:10am@ashestoashes
You have a better chance of protesting a ticket given to you by a piece of technology than you do by a normal cop. In a court of law, if a cop ticketed you it’s his word against yours. If the camera got you it will keep a read out of your exact speed and most likely the actual video as evidence. If there IS a discrepancy (which I doubt there will be) you will be able to address it then.
@V-MAN MACE
Then you have a problem with the system, you don’t have a problem with this technology. The government has every right to monitor what happens in the public – it’s the PUBLIC for a reason. It’s no difference than having some civilian standing in that location watching you, if they catch you doing something illegal they will report it to the police. The only difference is these cameras never sleep and aren’t intimidated by gangs. I am comforted to know the police will be keeping us all safer when we are on the streets
Additionally, the speed limits aren’t arbitrary. They are based on the width of the lane as well as the angle and grade of the turns. Highways which are flatter, wider, and with fewer turns get higher speed limits (in most cases). City streets which are narrower and have a lot of pedestrians are, naturally, slower.
@SgtB
Report Post »If the police want to make up some reason to ticket you and create revenue they can currently. This system, if ANYTHING, takes the discretion away from the cop and makes the law black and white – they way it should be!
V-MAN MACE
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 10:12amVoteBushIn12
You’re actually making an argument that the government has a right to surveill the public for no reason other than to assume that someone is breaking the law? Are we not innocent until proven guilty?
Let’s use technology to surveill people that are assumed innocent? Nope. Not buying that. Not with MY TAX DOLLARS.
It’s a huge difference between a machine and a civilian. Stop making simplistic comparisons. We have a right to face our accuser in court and how the hell do you fight a machine that generates revenue that is in the interest of the court and the cops? You aren’t EVER going to win. Radar guns are just as unreliable in the hands of a person who’s interest it is in for you to be speeding.
It has never been about safety, and is all about revenue generation. I don’t buy your safety argument at all. Next you’ll advocate a nationwide police state surveillance grid so that they can make everyone “safe” by putting them IN a “SAFE”, a panopticon prison, SECURING them in a cell.
Speed limits are not based on the safest possible speed but due to political and arbitrary rules. Arbitrary rules by politiicans to milk the public, not make the public “safe”.
Report Post »Jade402
Posted on November 26, 2011 at 12:29pmCAT … great reply!!! LOL … I won’t be surprised if it happens just like you predict.
Report Post »Ron2
Posted on November 26, 2011 at 3:40pmOne way to bring this crap to a stop is for every single person in America who gets a ticket should go to court and contest every ticket and before long all the thieving cops would be in court and not on the street. It seems our courts are becoming more money hungrey by the day! It always amazes me how it is safe for cops to speed [ not in persuit ] but just because they are cops and have badges but illegal for everyone else. And no matter what they say police have quotas and if they will lie about having Quotas then we know they will lie to fill them too. Another thing that gets me is how cities,counties and states are always crying about no money, but with all the money they take in from FINES is proof someone is pocketing a lot of it or they are paying someone to much money and wasting it in other ways!
Report Post »Ron2
Posted on November 26, 2011 at 3:45pmWhy do Americans stand still for the police and courts to rob us day by day? Courts and police have become out and out thieves!
Report Post »Protoham
Posted on November 26, 2011 at 7:31pmHow long until the printer in your dash prints out your ticket every time you exceed the speed limit as it deducts money out of your bank account.
Report Post »Protoham
Posted on November 26, 2011 at 7:35pmThere is only one solution, drive 5 miles below the speed limit. It will shut down the court system. You get better gas mileage and the police will get laid off.
WIN WIN WIN
Report Post »Protoham
Posted on November 26, 2011 at 7:43pm@Vote
“The only difference is these cameras never sleep and aren’t intimidated by gangs.”
You did not see the video of the guy running over the speed camera did you! Or the one shot to pieces by the respectful citizens.
Constant surveillance causes paranoia and paranoid people will do strange things.
Report Post »larrysummers
Posted on November 26, 2011 at 8:20pmIt has to be able to focus on my blurry lic plate first. bought a spray can of stuff that I sprayed on the plate which does not blur it to the naked eye but just reflects a blur in the cam. Those dirty crooks need to put the phoney cams where the sun don’t shine.
Report Post »1389AD
Posted on November 26, 2011 at 8:45pmThese shakedowns are being done because the public employee unions are bankrupting local governments. http://1389blog.com/2011/11/01/no-recovery-from-the-housing-bubble-until-all-public-sector-unions-are-gone/
Report Post »CaptainDLW
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 7:16amNot really my friend. Just obey the traffic speed laws and you don’t have to worry about any ticket. from a fellow cold war and Vietnam Vet.
Report Post »WeDontNeedNoSteenkinBadges03
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 3:23am“New Police Device Can Track 30 Potential Speeders At a Time”
It’s called … PROGRESSIVISM ! First set up the structure (get “ticket those speeders” into the field), then add modifications (24-7 ID tracking) when the Police State is fully in force.
“Dirty Harry” shows how to neutralize THAT threat … target the controller, not the automaton. ;)
Report Post »V-MAN MACE
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 5:49pmNo, We don‘t need any stinkin’ badges. All we need is citizen’s arrest powers and this .357 Magnum.
We ARE the police.
Report Post »Ron2
Posted on November 26, 2011 at 3:43pmPolice and courts are going to keep on till enough people revolt and say enough is enough and it’s getting closer and closer by the day! And the sooner the better!
Report Post »M 4 Colt
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 2:54amMore police state equipment to CONTROL IT’S CITIZENS, when are we going to remind our government Representatives that this is American, a free Republic not a POLICE STATE, if we don’t do something FAST to stop our governments step by step progression to the total control over our lives i am afraid our children will not live in the same free country we grew up in and that scares the hell out of me.
Report Post »Ron2
Posted on November 26, 2011 at 3:47pmWe have become a police state!!!!
Report Post »sillyfreshness
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 2:23am1984 in 2011
Report Post »raiderglenn
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 2:43amyep, more junk to try and grab more cash from the working people while the dopeheads sell crack right in the shopping mall parking lots…
Report Post »Mil-Dot
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 7:02amYou got it Raider. We have heroin, meth, crack etc in the grade schools and the cops are too busy hiding under over passes (and even on top of them) to do anything about it. Every time I see the smug face of some cop hiding, waiting for some poor working stiff to fall into their trap I want to puke.
Report Post »V-MAN MACE
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 11:30amWhere’s all those bootlicking neocons to call me a conspiracy theorist and Ron Paul whacko?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBVVfed4cpA
Where’s “IntegrityFirst08” so he/she can shine some patent leather with its tongue?
Report Post »V-MAN MACE
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 1:17pmThe Answer to 1984 is 1776.
Report Post »EthelMurmur
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 1:58amIt doesn’t bother me much….they might get me going through a yellow light, but speeding nope…..I use to, now I just putt around and let people pass me if they want to….I know where I‘m going and I’ve allocated the time to do it plus……I live in PA and these people drive like crazy people….cut in front of you, come in on entrance ramps right in front of you….I’ve learned to just go a bit slower and let em do what they want LOL!
Report Post »Sandra
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 7:28amMany people in PA (and other places), have never learned to merge into traffic from the ramps. Learning how to do this should be manditory in order to get a license. Traffic on the main road has the right of way. Good judgement is required from those on the ramp. Many don’t have it, and it causes many accidents. Does the word MERGE mean anything? Many other driving issues have never been taught either.
Report Post »Ford
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 9:06amA ticket for going through a yellow light? Yellow means clear the intersection and should not result in a ticket unless you revved up to an unsafe speed to get through it. My husband has been in law enforcement for 7 years and that is what he always told me. That and a cop here won’t even look in your direction unless you are going 10+ miles over the speed limit.
Report Post »Bill in Texas
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 10:37am10+ over the limit? I’ve seen State Troopers flip a U turn on the Interstate to ticket someone for 5 miles over the limit.
Report Post »stogieguy7
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 11:02amOh goddie, goodie, goodie for you! I love it when I read these self-congratulatory plaudits whenever a subject like speeding is discussed. Except that speed limits are usually set artificially low, hence the majority of drivers “speed” if only by a little. Go the speed limit in the left lane of a major metropolitan freeway and see what happens. There was an experiment where three cars went 55 mph in all three lanes of such a freeway. Know what happened? A HUGE traffic jam, several miles long. If memory serves, the cops tried to arrest the college students who did the experiments.
Speed limits are usually set for easy revenue generation rather than for safety. Cops know this, which is why they usually give you a break and only go after the folks who are flying. That sort of common sense could end with this abomination.
Report Post »NickyLouse
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 12:11pmGood for you, Ethel. It does not go against God’s word to follow the speed limit law. Therefore, I follow it. It also saves me quite a bit of stress.
Report Post »SC 11 BRAVO
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 1:53am@ Scare bear,, this is intended for MULTI LANE HIGHWAYS, as indicated in the article, if your town is that small i doubt it has MULTI LANE HIGHWAYS, nor the money to afford the equipment,,
Report Post »SC 11 BRAVO
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 1:49amInnocent until proven guilty, Just try to prove it was me behind the wheel, or write my car a ticket,, see if it pays up. ( I could not make out the FACE, Fingerprints or DNA of any of the perpetrators in the crimes depicted in the video)
Report Post »Darla_K
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 6:36amYes, I agree with you, but one could argue that we are responsible for our own vehicle and who we let drive it. Unless you have a police report saying that your car was stolen at the time of the infraction I would say that we are responsible for our vehicle and what happens with it.
Report Post »SeekerEmerald
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 7:21am@SC 11 BRAVO
It’s not so much about whether or not we have to fight in court for years to win, it’s about the idea of an automated money collection system and a crooked government that sets the speed limits artificially low. Speed limits are always set artificially low. If anyone disagrees: Do you really think that THAT many people are driving dangerously when they are doing 65-70 on a four lane interstate at noon during light traffic condition? Most people drive relatively safely. Look at the bell curve, and tell me it’s skewed with unsafe drivers… The limits are artificially low to enable the state/local Govt. to make money whenever they need a withdrawal from the public “ATM” AKA common citizen.
Report Post »scarebear83
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 1:43amI like it! Hear me out before you think I’m crazy. I live in a town where the police are almost non existent when it comes to traffic violations. Since the police are more scarce I’ve seen people run red lights more often, speed down residential neighborhoods doing at least 50mph or more when they should be doing at least 30, people turning from the middle lane, illegal lane changes, and the thing is, it keeps getting worse! If our law enforcement would crack down on these things we wouldn’t have near all the traffic problems that we do. And because we live in a smallish town big crime is relatively not much so our officers can’t be constantly on call somewhere. So what I’m trying to say is that if we had one of these in our town catching speeders then I think people would be a little more cautious about ALL the rules of the road.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 1:35amIf we could only track 30 lying politicians at one time! Now that would be science!
Report Post »Marci
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 1:50amThat is an interesting thought Monk—I’m sure we could set up a database that monitors what they say versus the facts and crank out a report for the day. “30 lies in 30 seconds–do you know where your congresscritter is?”
Report Post »BULLDOG98
Posted on November 26, 2011 at 11:02pmIt is already possible, you look to see if their lips are moving
Report Post »ForTheRepublic
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 1:25amthis is why I left Colorado
Report Post »SC 11 BRAVO
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 1:17am@ perfectduck,, THE STATES have the STATES right to set their own speed limits,, but will lose “FEDERAL HIGHWAY” funding ( which comes from the STATES) if they don’t comply with the FED guidelines, This has happened with seatbelt laws, Blood Alcohol level laws, and speed limits,
Report Post »In essence,, the STATES send state tax money to Washington, then Washington holds the money as ransom , until the states comply with federal regulations. Basically they are BLACKMAILING us ( The States) to get OUR OWN MONEY BACK from federal coffers,,
Randyrocker
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 1:13amTime to make money selling little sticker hoods that shield the sticker from eves droppers and the effects of the sun rays. Otherwise driving a car has turned into a game of russian roulette with the law, only they’ve got wall of the bullets. The way to win this war is to drive so slow below the speed limits that they are clogged with traffic jams and receive no money from fines. The infantile behavior of the police departments of America is staggering beyond belief.
Report Post »PerfectDuck
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 1:05amMissed the part in the Constitution that says the government has to tell us how fast to drive, yeah sure its states and they get more powers that aren’t expressly giving to the federal government, but is it really “dangerous” to drive at 70 on a highway with 100 yards between you and the next car.
Report Post »In that video the red ticket worthy cares didn’t look like they were harming anyone to me.
SC 11 BRAVO
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 1:02amI wonder how many Federal, State, County and City employees it can track at one time, speeding in the cars I ( we) pay for. ( Not to mention OFF-DUTY Law enforcement, because I would NOT mention OFF-DUTY Law Enforcement, for fear of backlash from OFF DUTY Law Enforcement.) just wanted to clarify, I am not talking about OFF DUTY Law Enforcement Officers,,,,,
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 1:40amDid you see the Florida State Trooper pull over the Miami Cop (in his squad car) doing 120 MPH going to his off duty job? It’s a riot!
Report Post »mickrussom
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 12:54amWelcome to police state USA. Next is precrime / minority report. All to fatten the union’s coffers.
Report Post »DaytonConserve
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 12:45amThe municipal money laundering scheme could be neutralized if all of the city’s revenue from these cameras would go into a state fund used to reimburse accident victims who lose out to uninsured/underinsured motorists.
Report Post »SC 11 BRAVO
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 12:54amTHAT is a great idea!!
Report Post »DaytonConserve
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 1:18am@SC 11 BRAVO, Thank you. I like to call it a win/win or to paraphrase a Dayton native, WINNING!
Report Post »swehes
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 12:35amIn Sweden there is a law that says you can only ticket the driver. Not sure if the same thing is in place in any of the states. But that would cause issues as it is hard to see the actual faces on these pictures.
Report Post »aircraft_ee
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 12:50amIt will be like red-light cameras; a civil violation against the owner of the car.
Report Post »poverty.sucks
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 12:58amIf only the state can get the car owner to come forward within statue of limitations.
Report Post »poverty.sucks
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 12:26amStates battle with revenue projections, proclaiming anticipated revenue for support of Photo Radar, offenders with attorneys avoid paying ticket fees, others don‘t pay at all and suddenly it seems if there’s not enough revenue to support the project.
Similar to State Lottery supporting education. Where’s the money?
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 12:21amThe pack speeding and weaving by you can make anyone feel unsafe!!! If you’er brealing the law you need to be caught!!!
Report Post »SgtB
Posted on November 3, 2011 at 1:18amNot the law. Speed limits are not LAW! Law is voted on by a congressional body and approved by the executive of the gov’t. Speed limits are ordinances and no better than business regulations. So no one breaks the law by speeding, they break a regulation. But last I checked, regulations do not apply to individuals who are not involved in commerce. Only a legal fiction can be forced to follow regulations and pay fines. Believing anything else is to give up your own rights as a human being and citizen.
Long story short, if you don‘t violate anyone else’s right to life, liberty, or property, you didn’t do anything against the law.
Report Post »Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 12:17amRevenue generators for the New police State.
Report Post »blaaaaackwoman
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 12:15amWhat part of “the law is the law” don’t you people understand? Break the law and you pay the penalty. No free ride for the white skinned.
Report Post »Dougral Supports Israel
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 12:28amYou will soon realize that one measure of freedom is the ability to break minor laws in a small way. If they start enforcing traffic laws in a verbatim manner you will understand what tyranny is about. The objective of speed laws is to keep traffic moving at similar speeds. There’s nothing magic about 55. But there will be when the big-brother cams kick in. Understand that a lot of this is driven by the desire of the State for more money and not necessarily safety. Your pocket will be picked.
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 12:37amwhat does the color of skin have to do with this ? you RACIST
Report Post »GPS-Tech
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 12:52am@blackwoman
Report Post »Shut up crackhead.
aircraft_ee
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 12:54amDougral- Good answer. For example, how many people turn on a turn signal the required 100 ft (common in many states) before making a turn and turn it off after the turn is completed? Skip a few feet on either end of the turn and one’s vehicle can get cited.
Report Post »AxelPhantom
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 1:14amI’ve been driving for almost 35 years and in that time ONE ticket and that was because my speedometer went out in mid-trip between cities. Got the thing fixed and bye-bye ticket. I follow the laws, even the small ones so eat it.
Report Post »AxelPhantom
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 1:31amCorrection, almost 25 years.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 1:47am@blaaaaackwoman
Report Post »How are you doing Maxine Waters? Glad to see you finally signed onto The Blaze. Try not to aaaaaaaaaack on yourself!
thegreatcarnac
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 10:05amYou have the nerve to talk about a ‘free ride for whites’ when there is affirmative action and every other political device used to give blacks an unfair advantage.??? GTH!
Report Post »tester99
Posted on November 1, 2011 at 11:50pmWhy do we let this happen, I don’t recall seeing anyone asking for a vote on this. This use of technology against us is BS, red light camera’s etc. It is past out of control and we need to stop this.
Report Post »ltb
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 12:19amIt won’t happen in Texas. We have a law that prohibits the use of cameras for enforcing speed limits.
Report Post »AngelAuthor
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 12:37amYeah, TEXAS FTW. I don’t live there now, but when I graduate from law school that’s one of my top picks.
Report Post »GPS-Tech
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 12:54amYou might want to avoid moving to Austin.
Report Post »drago
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 7:42am@Gps-tech
Report Post »You are correct, ive lived in Austin all my life, (53 years) and would not advise my worst enemy to move here……
Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on November 1, 2011 at 11:50pmCould they be getting ready to set them up around DC for when Mr Obama flees the city and heads to the airport to try and escape arrest for his crimes when a new President is sworn in?
Report Post »royrescue
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 5:00amthis will never happen, DEMONcans and Repulicrats. Most all are in this together.We had a judge get pulled over for DWI W/Open containers in the vehicle,fail the field test and breath test. She the Judge got off, all charges dropped, in a different county. These so called Politicians are connected with each other and other powers that be. mainly the wealthy, lawyers and judges! good luck on getting any one of these politicians doing what is the right thing,the best for the people.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 5:58am@Roy — I understand that, we had the new electorial districts committee have two of its higher up members removed from their positions today via special session of the AZ state senate; they had chosen to ignore the state constitution requirements for the redistricting based on the 2010 census, and now based on a story I heard that these two are refusing to acknowledge their removal and plan a “physical occupation” of the capital.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on November 1, 2011 at 11:39pmP o l i c e S t a t e
Report Post »CatB
Posted on November 1, 2011 at 11:53pmI agree .. and what if you are say , ,,, driving through Atlanta on 75 .. if you drive the speed limit you will be run over and killed! So is that my choice .. ticket or death?
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 1:03amYou risk Death… every moment of every day…
Report Post »mattwakulik
Posted on November 1, 2011 at 11:38pmany way to make money for state revenue !
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