Intersection cameras?
can the cops go and look into those cameras in the intersections (not the red light cameras, but the traffic controll cameras) and give you a ticket for runing a red light or stopping past the white line, and other law breaking acts. also this is out of curiousity can you get a ticket for stopping at a green light.
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No, in many states you can only be given a ticket if there is a sworn police officer present when the violation occurred, and you are personally apprehended and charged. They can't simply "mail you a ticket" unless your state legislators have authorized them to do so.
What's next? Force everyone to install a device that automatically detects speeding or other traffic violations and debits their bank account for the fines? "Your account has been debited four hundred dollars for passing that school bus with flashing lights..." "Seatbelt not fastened, fifty dollars."
Stopping at a green light is impeding the flow of traffic and will get you a ticket. Not sure what they do with the non-red light cameras, but they probably can't give you a ticket for running a red light. That is because such cameras don't have the red light trip beam that indicates you broke the threshold after the light changed.
Yes, they can use those and mail you a ticket. My Dad lives in Maryland and they keep giving him a ticket from Easy Pass in Baltimore City, funny thing is, my Dad NEVER goes to Baltimore! Aha, and it's someone who was gave the same tag numbers as a previous vehicle he USED to have, he no longer even has that tag number! He's been fighting with them for over a year now about that fine, it wasn't even him!
The green light thing, I'm sure they've got some kind of a fine for that too somewhere along the lines, it's all about money anyway.
yes they can and yes they should
I got a ticket from one of those cameras. The messed up thing is that I was going the speed limit (really was), and the light changed quickly once I got too close to stop. So, I had to make a choice to either slam on my brakes and skid to a stop, or speed up a bit to get through the light before the lights for cross traffic turned green. I got through in time. They sent me the ticket.
I looked it up later. A U.S. Congressman (or Senator?) had an entire web site about this. A city can easily set the lights to change quickly. This can be done formally, or after installation. (They're ran by a for-profit company, so that company has an interest in making the cameras profitable for cities).
I went to court and said I wanted to fight it. The judge told me bluntly that it would definitely cost me much more than the ticket to fight it. Plus, I would have to miss work. He was right. I didn't do the right thing. I paid the ticket.
But they were still wrong to do what they did. The for-profit company is obviously in it for the money. Drive through any small town in the south and you'll know that they use traffic tickets as a revenue maker. It obviously isn't a good idea to let a city looking for revenue to team up with a company looking for profits when it is obvious that they can easily manipulate the cameras and lights to create traffic tickets--and possibly traffic hazards. I bet they're still doing it in CA.
the only way to fight a camera ticket, depends on the camera shot itself. if the picture clearly captures anyone or anything that inside your car, it can be fought on constitutional grounds as an invasion of privacy. but its still a tough battle.
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