It didn’t take long after Pete Buttigieg, U.S. Transportation Secretary, introduced his department’s 42-page National Roadway Safety Strategy for people to grasp the importance of a tiny sentence buried in Note 3 on Page 28 of the report: “Promote speed safety cameras as a proven safety countermeasure.” Protestations emanated from as far away as the […]
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The USDOT, Speed Cameras, and Automated Corruption: NMA E-Newsletter #683
February 14, 2022 • 0 Comments • Automated Camera Tickets, Automated Traffic Enforcement, Corruption, Driver's License, LEGISLATION, red-light camera, REVENUE GENERATION, road safety, SAFETY, Speed Cameras, TICKET CAMERA, TICKET FINES, TICKET REVENUE, TRAFFIC CAMERA, Traffic Tickets
2021: The Year Flock Safety License Plate Readers Exploded Across the Country
January 11, 2022 • 0 Comments • ACLU, Civil Asset Forfeiture, Driver's License, DRONES, Facial Recognition, ICE, license plate readers, LICENSE PLATES, PRIVACY, Smart Cities, street furniture, Street Lights, Technology, TICKET FINES
By guest writer Joe Cadillic, founder of the MassPrivatel Blog 2021 will also go down as the year police/Flock Safety license plate readers exploded across the country. One major development that went overlooked by the mass media is Flock Safety’s role in the ever-expanding network of police license plate readers. From January 2021-December 2021, law […]
Crime Isn’t the Only Thing That Doesn’t Pay
January 4, 2022 • 0 Comments • LOS ANGELES, Parking, parking tickets, REVENUE GENERATION, TICKET FINES, TICKET QUOTA, TICKET REVENUE, Traffic Tickets
By NMA President Gary Biller Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared in October 2021 as NMA E-Newsletter #668. If you would like to subscribe to the weekly one-topic newsletter that comes to your inbox on Sunday mornings, please click Here. Care to hazard a guess on how much money the city of Los Angeles […]
A Driver’s License as a Convenience for Whom?: NMA E-Newsletter #677
January 3, 2022 • 0 Comments • BODY CAMERAS, CELL PHONE, Digital Driver's License, DMV, Driver's License, DRONES, TICKET FINES, TRAFFIC RECORD, TRAFFIC STOP, Traffic Tickets
If you drive, you likely have a physical license indicating you passed a test and can legally drive on the nation’s roadways. After the September 11th attack 20 years ago, driver’s licenses became a primary form of identification if you wanted to fly domestically. Now, a driver’s license is once again being asked to do […]
Crime Isn’t the Only Thing That Doesn’t Pay: NMA E-Newsletter #668
November 1, 2021 • 0 Comments • LOS ANGELES, Parking, parking tickets, REVENUE GENERATION, TICKET FINES, TICKET QUOTA, TICKET REVENUE, Traffic Tickets
Care to hazard a guess on how much money the city of Los Angeles has raked in from traffic and parking enforcement during their last five fiscal years, which end each June 30th? If your estimate is more than half a billion dollars, you are getting warm. During those five years, Los Angeles collected more […]
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