How police track your driving

[Skidmore]

39. You know, people need to get comfortable with the notion that they get the government

they pay for. If they don't want to pay taxes to support actual people doing law enforcement or provide good training for those people, they get this type of technology to take the place of paying salaries and equipping a force. We have a nearby city which went to the trouble to buy intersection cameras because another city had been so successful collecting revenues by ticketing those people who go through yellow lights and are speeding. It was good money and the city didn't have to have patrol cars parked under the overpass after the curve coming off of the rural area. Well this didn't pan out so well when the citizens showed up at council meetings demanding to know how the decision to purchase and install cameras had been made and demanded that they not be turned on. It went to a referendum during an election and citizens voted down the traffic surveillance. Those cameras are still off and the patrol men are still having to sit around the bend trying to catch speeders.

How about some efforts directed towards removing some of these bits of technology instead of everyone standing around with jaws agape being shocked. Who gives this permission? Who pays for it? Someone in local government does. Another instance when the convenience of technology goes in place without questioning or devising rules for its use.