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Speed cameras won't work in the US system of justice.

  1. You need a witness, under oath, at trial, to introduce video evidence. 2. The defendant has a right to confront an accuser.

Fighting a video traffic ticket is almost exclusively a win.

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watch new laws come in to support them.

then watch rich people lawyer their way out of fines.

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You can't pass laws that subjugate the right to due process. Every state in the nation as well as federally, and backed by countless SCOTUS decisions, require the state to provide an accuser to be confronted at trial and the rules of evidence that require any evidence offered into record to be offered into evidence by an involved party while under oath at trial.

That's why if the cop doesn't show up to court, you win. If the cop doesn't show up, he can't testify, and the ticket that he wrote can't be used as evidence against you.

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Plenty of jurisdictions allow them.

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Yes. They allow them. Because it is profitable to allow them. The jurisdictions that don't allow them stopped allowing them when it became unprofitable to allow them.

People have to fight the ticket, which means up to 3 or even 4 days of lost wages to fight a ticket that costs max $200. Most people won't bother. However, after you beat the ticket, the municipality that issued the ticket is now subject to a lawsuit. If just a very few people follow through on the lawsuit, the cameras get used for monitoring, not revenue generation.

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Many states have already ruled they are illegal.

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depends how theyre used. In the UK they tend to get shut down by the counties because they lose money becaaaaaaaaaaaaause.... they put big ass signs saying SPEED CAMERA AHEAD and they put htem on..... accident blackspots, then what happens right... is that people who are actualyl paying attention go 'oh shit id better slow down for the camera' thereby slowing down through the..... dangerous place where the SAFETY CAMERA is, and the cameras end up costing the county more than they gain in fines, while morons paying zero attention or giving zero fucks are the only people that cop fines. Mobile speed cameras when i was in the UK were in massive white vans with reflective tape on the back and POLICE - SPEED CAMERA signs on them. You couldnt miss them, and you had to be a fucking retard to get hit with a camera fine.

Australia however... they are not safety cameras, theyre purely revenue raising, and get hidden everywhere, and you dont know you even went through a 'accident black spot' until weeks later when you get a fine. Then there is the country version of this - fucking assholes in GHILLIE SUITS hiding behind bushes. Its illegal, but people pay the fucking fines anyway.