It’s insane the lengths that some people will go to save a few seconds on their commute, while also endangering others.

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    10 months ago

    I don’t really get your argument.

    Speed cameras are designed to do one thing – issue citations for speeding.

    The job of the police officer is to identify a wide array of crimes and issue citations for them, when they observe them.

    The incident where a car was tailgating you and the incident where a lorry was creating an unsafe driving situation have absolutely nothing to do with the speeding camera. Both of those situations are the responsibility of a policy officer, if they are alerted to the crime or observe it themselves. You have a valid complaint about the complacency of your local law enforcement, but what does your argument have to do with the speed camera?

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      10 months ago

      The basis for the rationale for putting up speed cameras depends on the police to act with an unquestionable moral authority.

      By acting with inconsistent moral principles they demonstrate their stated and genuine motives differ which undermines the moral authority they need to police by consent.

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        10 months ago

        The basis for the rationale for putting up speed cameras depends on the police to act with an unquestionable moral authority.

        No, it doesn’t?

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            10 months ago

            It explicitly takes control away from the police and moves it to simple sensors and circuits, as well as simple bureaucratic mailing lists. If it screws up, you can either request a manual review of the footage or spend an afternoon to bring your own evidence it in front of a judge. The police have nothing to do with it.

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              10 months ago

              Except when the camera is in the policeman’s hand and when they run the training courses you mean?

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                10 months ago

                Well, we are talking about a pole mounted camera, and if it was misscalibrated is would be very easy to prove, so yes?