Politicians love it. Speeders hate it. Police departments offer mixed reviews. Photo radar is here and it affects how you travel around our growing cities.
Photo radar is becoming a problem on several different levels. Not only are photo radar employees being threatened for doing their job, but police officers are punishing citizens for freedom of speech against photo radar. Our politicians are so money hungry they don’t care about the safety of the accused, or the redflex employees. Several arrests have been made in Scottsdale for protesting on faulty terms. These things happen day after day and don’t even hesitate to ask a question because it’s not happening to you. You have rights, even if Scottsdale Police don’t read them to you (which is required by law).
Arizona’s speeding and red light cameras violate the right to confront one’s accuser in order to generate revenue for the state and cities, critics of photo radar say. Arizona was the first state to implement photo radar statewide and will likely have more than 100 traffic cameras deployed across the state by November, Redflex Traffic Systems. The statewide contract was awarded to Scottsdale-based Redflex. Photo radar is estimated to bring $90 million to the state in fiscal year 2009, according to a state budget summary. Between May 2007 and July 2008, DPS issued more than 86,000 citations using photo radar, about 48 percent of the approximately 180,600 incidents recorded, according to department statistics. Redflex and American Traffic Systems, which operates traffic cameras in Phoenix and Mesa, also said they could not release financial figures because they needed permission from cities to release the data.
There is an odd psychological dimension to the subject of speeding and that is that few drivers see themselves as speeders. Rather, we define our speed as relative, not absolute (like the law). While many gasp at tickets for driving 20 mph over the posted speed, few connect the dots and realize that most drivers are technically speeding when conditions are good. However, the so-called certainty of apprehension promoted by photo radar allows more drivers to connect the dots. And when they do, just as they did in B.C., they will see the law as a failure. Highway safety requires two key ingredients: minimal speed variance and reduced traffic volume. Increasing highway capacity and design speed is one way to reduce volume, however danger increases when vehicles impede others and vehicle interactions increase. Drivers naturally comply with a limit viewed as reasonable, thus reducing speed variance and therefore potential interactions between vehicles.
What will you fight for?
Hint* Your rights as a US Citizen.
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Beat a speeding ticket…96 in a 65 freeway.?tell me. i have posted this prior but i want to be sure. is is at all possible or wise to beat this in court. i dont want to pay for a ticket if there is a slight chance that i can get away. the ticket was only for speeding and it was written as approx. 96 so im guessing he did not use a radar gun. i have 60 days for my trial and im trying to get as much info as possible. i cant afford to pay for this ticket right now and i want to beat it if i can. i hate the government and i want to get back at them. tell me how to beat this and i will appreciate it greatly.
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You’re really good man. You’ve got excellent talent.
amazing! Willy teach me how to paint like you!
Nice work, you did pretty good.
hm i couldn’t tell the difference between photograph and painting comparing the final resault.
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how is this not a real photo?
plead guilty and pay the fine, they have already out thought you on this one
Fourth option. Move to New Mexico and never return to Arizona again.
First of all the temperature is not going to effect the machine.
Schools zones are set up that way because kids can be out at any time for almost any reason; i.e., late getting to school, early leaving, etc. There does not have to be a school in the immediate area, it just has to be an area where children are going to be because of the school.
Just because you did not see any kids does not mean there were none, they might have been between the two parked cars you passed for all you know. The court is not going to accept your argument that there were no children in the zone anyway, after all, it's just your word.
Actually, the only thing you can argue is that the placement of the school zone is bogus. Very, very difficult to get the court to accept.
The court will assess a fine AND charge you COURT COSTS. If you really want to do something about this; you might be better off taking your complaint to which ever agency decided that area needed to be a school zone. Sometimes its the state highway department that does that, not the city.
You can fight it. You can lose the fight.
After putting all the pieces together, I can only say that you either entered the intersection on a yellow, or red light, or you failed to come to a complete stop before making the turn. What does the picture show?.
Identifying drivers and matching them to the speeding car can be a tricky legal issue.
Phoenix lawyer Craig Gillespie proved that when he fought two photo-enforcement tickets on Dec. 28, 2004.
He was flashed twice, once at Scottsdale Road and Wilshire Street, and again at 66th Street and Osborn Road.
"The judge tossed one ticket because the picture was of such poor quality," he said.
He argued that the second ticket was illegal because Redflex Traffic Systems, which operates Scottsdale's speed cameras, was not matching camera images to the driver's license.
The Scottsdale judge disagreed. Gillespie appealed to Maricopa County Superior Court, where Judge Margaret Downie ruled in part that Scottsdale was violating state law by not comparing the photos.
"Under this system, no one can certify with the slightest degree of accuracy or truthfulness that the person receiving the ticket is the actual driver," Downie wrote in her decision. "There is no human involvement certification process whatever."
She ordered the Scottsdale judge to dismiss the ticket.
Caron Close, Scottsdale's top prosecutor, said the decision does not set a precedent, but "Scottsdale is not ignoring it."
Bruce Kalin, who administers Redflex's $2 million contract for Scottsdale police, said that over the past three years, the company has gone from a one-shift-a-day operation to round-the-clock staffing, in part because of the volume of Loop 101 tickets
If You Have A Ticket?
A successful challenge to a photo camera radar ticket is achieved by looking at several important things. Statistics have shown that the vast majority of these photo camera radar tickets are illegible because of these reasons:
Illegible license plate number
Make and model of the vehicle is or is not identifiable
Indistinguishable driver or operator
If you have received such a photo camera radar ticket, immediately appeal it and ask to see the photo records that supported a ticket being mailed to you. Look to see if any of those reasons apply and then explain it to the court official hearing your appeal case.
Another popular strategy that many have used successfully is to simply ignore the ticket that you received in the mail and do nothing. Why you ask? When you receive a speeding ticket under normal conditions, you receive it in person from a police officer and many times you sign the bottom of the citation promising to appear in court. When you get a photo camera radar ticket by mail, you never sign anything. Legally you do not have to respond, appear, pay or anything else. The only way you will ever hear anything about the ticket is if an officer shows up at your door with a summons for you to appear in court. When you’re asked about the ticket you simply reply you never received a ticket, it must have been lost in the mail. Since most if not all local, city, county and state agencies do not send these types of tickets out via "certified mail" there is no way to prove that you ever received it. Remember, these types of speed traps are a business. In most jurisdictions the equipment being used by the law enforcement agency is on loan or is being leased to that department because a portion of each and every photo camera radar ticket's revenue goes to that company that loaned or leased the equipment to that agency. In these types of speed traps they just bank on a certain number of obedient ignorant people simply mailing in their fines pleading guilty.
When preparing to fight your photo camera radar ticket in court, be sure to check the admissibility of such a ticket in the courts within your state. Many state courts have deemed these photo camera radar tickets to be unconstitutional for a variety of reasons, many mentioned in this article; yet many police departments and their respective cities and towns continue to operate such traps because they know a certain percentage of the violators will just pay their fine and send it in paid in full. So do not overlook doing this important step in the fighting back process.
Typical Radar Rules Still Apply
Remember, radar itself has many flaws, so ask to look at the records of the piece of equipment that contained the radar unit. Be sure it has been calibrated, inspected and that tuning forks were used to calibrate it daily, which oftentimes does not take place. Almost every state in the United States requires radar units to be calibrated daily by members of law enforcement and inspected every 6 or 12 months by an independent laboratory to assure us of the integrity and accuracy of the speed detection device being used to nail speeders is in proper working order. Photo camera radar produces many false readings for sure, just as normal police radar units do that the police officers use every day
Fight it or ignore…either way I think you will be alright.
That depends on what your grounds for argument are, and what you are looking for. Getting it dismissed will be more difficult than requesting a reduced fine.
But be careful of some of the advice I'm seeing already. For example:
An officer is not required to appear, the picture will be the only evidence needed.
The first four words of the Sixth Amendment state "In all criminal prosecutions…." Therefore, the right to face your accuser would not apply for traffic infractions.
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No, some cameras are low light or infra and can see very, very well in low or no light.
Hope that helps.