Sound, but not THAT Sound
Didn't Chicago used to have a sound ordinance? We recall many a day and afternoon spent at 11th and State in the Hearing Rooms on the first floor, attending court calls at 0900, 1030, 1300 and 1430 before heading off to work at 1600. This was only a matter of time:
You already know about speed cameras. Red light cameras. Toll cameras that photograph your plate and bill you later. Now meet their cousin. Noise cameras are the newest automated enforcement technology spreading through American cities. A pole-mounted device contains sensitive microphones paired with a license plate camera.
Your car drives past. If your exhaust tips over the legal decibel limit, a ticket arrives in your mailbox days later. No warning. No officer pulling you over. No flashing lights in your rearview mirror. Just a microphone that never blinks, never takes a break and never misses a shift.
New York City has been running these since 2021. The cameras have issued more than 1,600 violations and collected nearly $2 million in fines. Get caught once, and you're looking at $800. Get caught repeatedly, and the fine climbs to $2,500.
Where else is this being tested?
- California has six cities running a five-year pilot program with fines up to $1,105. Chicago, Miami, Philadelphia, Sacramento and Washington, D.C., are all deploying or testing. Colorado, New Jersey and Hawaii have introduced similar legislation. This is not a local story anymore. It's a national one moving fast, and most drivers have absolutely no idea it's coming for them.
As a reasonably mature, educated and responsible citizen, we maintain our vehicles so that they don't disturb the public. As an old fart, we gave up even thinking about motorcycles a long time ago.
We can't say we're against this, but we know exactly who is going to be in the wrong 99-times-out-of-100 and we know exactly how it's going to play out.
Labels: city politics
posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
34 Comments:
Does it also pick up booming bass beats?
This sounds extremely racist. How are people supposed to afford a new muffler when they just spent their income tax checks on those new car speakers?
sounds like a great opportunity to hide a speaker nearby the sensor...
Anything to get your money.
Next will be the SMELL-A-CAM and all those Dudes will have to keep the windows up. What does dude call that HOT-BOXING???????
will the fuck you on the rap song be beeped out when standing tall in front of the judge?
Im surprised Conehead hasn't come out to say that would be racist towards the "black and brown" community.
Impound court was great. It produced revenue for the city, punished ignorant Aholes and provided a nice incentive for the PO to enforce the ordinance. Of course someone in city government thought we were getting paid to much and removed us from the process and guess what happened, no more enforcement. When you hire idiot liberal arts people to run the city instead of people who have taken an economics class or two you would of known providing an economic incentive produces better results.
I don't have a problem with this.
that will be the new shot spotter, it will record you when you fire a gun and then you get a ticket in the mail
Pole mounted devices with sensitive microphones to enforce the law? How is this okay but shot spotter is racist?
So what, these morons get a ticket and wont pay for it..just like their other tickets. Im sure these "Noise" cameras wi be only up north, where Im sure everyone with a motorcycle will be getting one! You wont see these "Smell-A-Cams" on the west or south sides.
^ This!
I like the way you think.
Oh Don’t Worry It’s Coming!!!
Sound paid for my pool, deck and landscaping. It was wonderful.
Deploy it to the non-marginalized suburbs. There are plenty of cars that are tuned to back fire when shifting gears. Some of them sound remarkably similar to automatic gun fire.
So, it's a NO to ShotSpotter and a YES to revenue producing Fart detections.
So basically a ShotSpotter but for vehicle noise
I seem to recall a story in Dearborn Michigan in which a Mosque used loudspeakers to call people to worship at 5:00 am. When a resident asked why noise ordinances were not being enforced he was told to move. My guess is once a bunch of minorities are ticketed they will can this program.
Income tax check? LOL
SCC, your also forgetting we're at the age where blasting the stereo with all windows rolled down, rocking out, ended a long time ago.
Living out west in a red state with a glass pack muffler and a resonator delete kit. Don't care, it won't happen here.
That's coming soon to a media outlet near you.......
Good times.
Need to be exemptions, like for playing Thunderstruck. They would have got me yesterday...
Chicago used to have a noise impoundment for loud car radios. If you could hear it more than 75 feet away, a big ticket and impound. But enforcement ceased when it was found that the ordinance disproportionally impacted people of color. Which means it was racist and was dropped. This was back in the early 1990s.
Nobody cares
It’s a version of a Dutch oven
Also happening in NYC. You are talking about the new protected class who can do no wrong.
We can't say we're against this, but we know exactly who is going to be in the wrong 99-times-out-of-100 and we know exactly how it's going to play out.
Those damn albino Amish will certainly feel the wrath!
It's the UNearned income credit....
Try early 2010's.... ask Sgt Moore about it being repealed.
what the city did first was take away the court for the p/o so the enforcement dropped to almost zero
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