This.
"Columbus recently extended its agreement with Phoenix-based Redflex Traffic Systems Inc., which owns and operates the city's 20 red-light cameras. The new contract will double the number of cameras posted at Columbus intersections to issue tickets to red-light-runners.
Rescinding that program "wouldn't make sense to the taxpayers," Williamson said."
and this... (as stated above)
I wish our politicians would grow some damn balls and either do it all the way or do nothing. Fuck that shit.
I will say that a very heavy hand needs to come down on this issue. Either for or against. Someone needs to make it clear what goes on here. Make them legal or figure out a way to ship them out.
I applaud AZ's efforts to be decisive but I feel that it gives to much power to the police and other local officials. We bitch and moan when we get pulled over for no front plate/tinted windows/no turn signal/no seat belt because it gives the cops rights to certain things.
Yes, profiling works in *most* (it hurts to write that) cases. But just think about that every time a cop sees/hears your car with an exhaust and pulls you over to do a quick glance in your vehicle for another reason to write you a ticket or put you in jail. Don't even think for one second that doesn't go through their minds.
What I find funny about this is that its supported by Republicans. The very people that want LESS government involvement in their lives. Well guess what, you better start carrying your birth cert. and other ID's with you anytime you go there. Id be scared of that cop that thinks I'm not a legal citizen because I cannot prove it right then and there. Maybe I can be held without trial until I can prove I am a citizen. And all this because he doesn't like the fact I have sideburns... Im just sayin!
Again, I applaud the effort and the fact they are excising their right to enact laws that are decisive, relative to problems and not based on morals.