I read an article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch today about the city of Charlock, deploying a speed camera along its quarter-mile stretch of 170. This post will be about my reaction to this news...This is totally a revenue scheme. I personally don't agree with the St. Louis County Police chief; I think all camera enforced systems should be banned. There is no reason why a camera should be doing a police officers job. Next they'll put cameras in our homes to make sure we're not smoking pot. This is ridiculous.
If caught you get a $100 fine, and no points assessed to your record. You can get the fine reduced by $25, if you attend a four hour drivers ed course, which is complete BULLSHIT! Who the fuck has four hours to spend at one of those? People don't have time for jury duty, let alone traffic school.
My biggest beef to pick with cities that do this is that they bully citizens around through EXTORTION. When you get those tickets, it gets sent to the owner of the vehicle via the registration tied to the license plates. When you receive the fine/threatening letter, you have two choices. You can pay the fine, or you have to rat out who was driving your car that day so they can go after that person. What the fuck happened to your fifth amendment right? Your odds of using that in court are slim to none as well, because 99.7% of camera enforced victims get stuck with the bill, even if you weren't driving (but own the car).
This leads me to the next item. Ask your state representative, and senator to support a bill that will ban all camera enforced systems from being used on highways, and intersections across the state of Missouri.
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You know you don't have to pay a ticket received from a camera. Acknowledging in any way that you received the ticket proves you're guilty. Through the ticket away and you'll never hear anything. I know someone who's gotten 3 over the past couple years, never touched them and never heard anything.
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