Red Light Camera Debate

A study released from scholars at Rice University in Houston, Texas indicates that the controversial red light traffic cameras can be effective at preventing accidents. KHOU's Ron Trevino reports.

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News & Politics

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• Caught
• On
• Tape
• Car
• Drive
• Road
• Collision
• Crash
• DUI

[88soulsurvivor]

I hate these iphone ads!!!

[wolffystyle]

The graph sucks. There's no separate units on the Y -axis for the yellow line. And "gone way up"? Use less exaggerated rhetoric - 20 extra collisions and how many extra intersections? This is good debate, but a bad investigation. Give me something better. I'll be the lone dislike.

[FinelineNation]

I got two tickets from this crap. First time there was a bus blocking the road, so i got stuck in the middle. Second time, the white pedestrian line/paint was faded.

[stargate937]

@Elinitsam and they are a scam. if you run a red light in front of a cop, One your stupid and two its a fine and 2 points on your licence, Camera gets you its just a fine. How is it different beyond the cop bing there and not being there. And to your destroy the camera thing i like to pull them out of the ground

[stargate937]

Are they saving lives maybe. But around my house everybody slams on the brakes at yellow lights and roads without the cameras. So i would be shocked if must of the crashes are rear end chrashes

[mugtar100]

@Elinitsam If you're out in public and expect to have privacy then you're stupid. either way privacy has nothing to do with breaking the law. The easiest way to avoid getting a ticket from a red light camera is to not run a red light. its not hard at all millions of people do it every day.

[Elinitsam]

@mugtar100 We pay for public property through our taxes but did the people want these cameras? They didn't ask us given the sensitivity and intrusiveness of this very personal issue. All I know is the cameras placed out in public is unconstitutional according to the 4th Amendment. People need their space to walk too and be healthy who want to be private as well. These cameras deny us this right!

[mugtar100]

@Elinitsam if they put a camera in your home you would have a point but they are on public property.

[getareeljob]

attention all law enforcement these devices are the beginning of the end of your job take that to mind when considering there advantage more cameras mean less officers less officer mean less federal law enforcement budget allocations means less officers means more crime i support law enforcement not capitalist contractors .The cameras are not police they are machines ,When the camera gets a badge an officer loses a job ,and that is scary

[Elinitsam]

The cameras are unconstitutional according to the 4th Amendment. Because of the cameras we lose our privacy from invasive searches and get taken to the cleaners! I will never pay a camera ticket! I'd sooner jump off a cliff! WE THE PEOPLE, IT IS TIME TO REVOLT TO DEFEND OUR HUMANITY AGAINST TYRANNICAL GOVERNMENT AND CORPORATIONS! If each of us destroys a camera they will be wiped out! All it takes is fire and alcohol on the box!