Wait...Red Light Cameras are About Money?
- City Hall cannot back up claims that its controversial red-light camera program is designed to make intersections safer, according to a watchdog's report released Tuesday.
Inspector General Joseph Ferguson said the city cannot provide documents to prove that the cameras went up at intersections with the most side-impact crashes. He also questioned why cameras remain at intersections with no recent history of such crashes, which the $100 ticket-issuing "cops-in-a-box" are designed to prevent.
"We found a lack of basic record keeping and an alarming lack of analysis for an ongoing program that costs tens of millions of dollars a year and generates tens of millions more in revenue," Ferguson wrote in a letter addressed to Mayor Rahm Emanuel and other city officials.
Golly, scams for money. In Chicago. Shocking.
In other news, the sun rose in the east today. Seriously, where do they find these people?
In other news, the sun rose in the east today. Seriously, where do they find these people?
Labels: city politics, money questions
posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
15 Comments:
I find it ironic that they put these things up in the name of "safety" while encouraging illegal, (or "undocumented") unlicensed, non-english speaking folks to ply the streets of our fair City in their unlicensed & undocumented vehicles...
It's called the Department of Revenue. Not the Department of Public Safety.
If you like the Red Light Camera scam then are just going to Love the new Speed Cameras. Where are the Feds on all this? You know there has been lots of criminal activity going on for years with this program. Fact is nobody in Washington wants to touch Richie Daley. He is at the heart of all this criminal garbage.
Tonight there will be a report on the "crime" cameras not working on channel 2 news at 10 o' clock...
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That greasy midget daley never cared about safety issues, it was all about the money. The cameras were like a new way to get more of it. daley was a greedy little schmuck, as is his successor .
traffic enforcement of all types has always been mostly about revenue. the cameras are just a new twist on it.
I spoke with alderman Zalewski lastnight at the casino and he related that archer ave needs several more cameras.
Liar. Liar. Pants on fire.
No record keeping? Nothig to use against them in court.
I know alot of people feel Burke is a douche, but at least he admitted this was all a revenue grab, and made no one any safer. He didn't say its for the kiddies like the midget
Keep hammering, IG
Please stop making me laugh so hard as I am a retired CPD and my stomach muscles are getting a work out and I'm burning calories.....ok keep it coming!
i cant believe some young activists, I mean beer makers havent tried to blow one of these camera up yet....
if we disguised them as streetlights, you think we could get McCarthy to take a few out on one of his drunken stupor nights?
it's for the children
no need for speed cameras, the pothole mafia has got this covered.
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