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In Norway they put one of those radar boxes with a camera in places like this. They even put a sign a mile before saying there is going to be a box since the ob

In Norway they put one of those radar boxes with a camera in places like this. They even put a sign a mile before saying there is going to be a box since the objective is not to catch people but to make the average traffic slow down.

ChrisMarshallNY 5y ago
In the US (at least in NY), traffic tickets are considered income -especially in Manhattan. Some jurisdictions actually plan budgets on it. The same with civil forfeiture.
- xenophonf 5y ago
  Not to be outdone by NYC, this happened in Chicago, too: > A Tribune examination of overturned red light tickets revealed evidence that the city of Chicago has quietly cast a wider net to snare drivers since switching camera vendors earlier this year amid a bribery scandal. > A before-and-after analysis of photographic evidence and interviews with experts suggests the transition to a new vendor last spring was accompanied by a subtle but significant lowering of the threshold for yellow light times. https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-red-light-camera-yellow-timing-20141009-story.html https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-red-light-camera-yell...
  - mywittyname 5y ago
    This happened all over the US: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ohio-town-must-pay-back-millions-of-fines-collected-from-speed-cameras-court-rules https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ohio-town-must-pay-back-mil...
- nieve 5y ago
  The New York Times has been running a series on traffic stops focusing on reasons for the high death rate among motorists who are pulled over, but they also did this long and infuriating piece on the funding issue. It was actually somehow even worse than I expected: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/31/us/police-ticket-quotas-money-funding.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/31/us/police-ticket-quotas-m...