Police Objecting to Tickets From Red-Light Cameras

caffiend666 writes "According to a Dallas Morning News article, any 'Dallas police officer in a marked squad car who is captured on the city's cameras running a red light will have to pay the $75 fine if the incident doesn't comply with state law ... Many police officers are angry about the proposed policy. The prevailing belief among officers has been that they can run red lights as they see fit.' Is this a case for or against governments relying on un-biased automated systems? Or, should anyone be able to control who is recorded on camera and who is held accountable?"

CCTV Gap

[Anonymous Coward]

Is this a case for or against governments relying on un-biased automated systems? Or, should anyone be able to control who is recorded on camera and who is held accountable?

Or maybe the government is merely concerned about the United States' CCTV gap with the UK [slashdot.org]?

All these cameras are just there so we don't fall behind in the world wide surveillance competition. Wait, you're not unpatriotic are you?

Gentlemen, we must not allow a CCTV gap!

In the Netherlands

[biocute]

We watch "red-light" web cameras.

Re:The police ought to follow the law.

[gardyloo]

Was there a Krispy Kreme in that neighborhood?

Re:The police ought to follow the law.

[Seumas]

That's because she was a pirate.

Re:The police ought to follow the law.

[Anonymous Coward]

In which case, I need a bigger gun.

Re:The police ought to follow the law.

[Anonymous Coward]

But we were having so much fun disregarding reason and logic!

Re:In the Netherlands

[siwelwerd]

You laugh, but while I was in undergrad in Tuscaloosa, they had a few traffic signal cameras around town and displayed the feeds on a cable channel (so you could monitor traffic conditions, what not). Some state trooper from out of town was in the office controlling the cameras and was zooming in on college girls on the sidewalks, following them around with the cameras completely oblivious to the fact that these cameras were broadcasting. Here's the writeup in the school paper: http://www.cw.ua.edu/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/09/1 2/3f629e6e6a1fd?template=pda [ua.edu]

Re:The police ought to follow the law.

[Suhas]

What the hell has a UID got to do with the argument that he makes? Are you sore that you have a 6 digit UID? Read Freud much?

Re:The police ought to follow the law.

[Sloppy]

I guess the lesson here is that if you're going to flaunt the law, make sure you pull out a gun. Then nobody will fuck with you.

Re:The police ought to follow the law.

[modecx]

Fuck that. I do not want any more people under the delusion that politicians are meant to be leaders or moral guides. They are employees hired to run the country. They can be depraved ex-child molesters for all I care, so long as they do their jobs properly.

Alright, bub... Which congress-critter are you? Mmmm???

Re:The police ought to follow the law.

[WhatAmIDoingHere]

Yeah, because ambulance drivers are the real problem with this country, right Comrade?

I actually work at a hospital and have lost count of all the times the ambulance drivers have tortured me for just shits and giggles.

Re:The police ought to follow the law.

[Anonymous Coward]

heh. what a fucktard. you've obviously never seriously broken anything.

if your forearm was cracked in half you'd squeal like a little bitch.
thats usually the case with people who are quck to run their mouth. they're little bitches.

Re:The police ought to follow the law.

[Archangel Michael]

You're not suggesting congress is doing its job, are you?

Re:I had a comment, but changed my mind

[Lord Kano]

Seriously, who is crazy enough to post a real opinion on a public forum without being anonymous.

Being that a check on my registration will not return the name "Lord Kano", I feel completely free to say that all cops take it in the pooper and that they like to go ass to mouth.

LK

Re:The police ought to follow the law.

[SuperQ]

Does my 4 digit UID give me the right to smack you down for suggesting that the absence of evidence is the same as the evidence of absence?

Yes.

Re:The police ought to follow the law.

[Sloppy]

Whoops, you're right. Although now that I think of it, if you're a cop, you can do both at the same time. ;-)

Re:The police ought to follow the law.

[bogjobber]

I've never seen a more opportune time to use this quote: "The plural of anecdote is not data."

Re:The police ought to follow the law.

[KingSkippus]

Well, he can't edit his post, so it's a mute point now.

;-)

Re:The police ought to follow the law.

[CopaceticOpus]

Hey now, I was hospitalized with the shits and giggles once. It puts incredible strain on the abdominal muscles. It is no laughing matter.

Ahem.

[thepotoo]

I may not have a 5-digit UID, but I am an expert in the subject of ambulance driving, having completed the Paramedic missions in GTA3, Vice City, and San Andreas.
From my extensive experience in this matter, I have observed that, for every patient saved, an average of 10 people, most of them hookers, are killed.

I can rest my case.