Civil forfeiture without a conviction for a related crime is governmental larceny. PERIOD. All the officials involved should be tried for larceny and go to jail if convicted.
James C. Walker, National Motorists Association
The three major credit reporting agencies stopped accepting unpaid ticket camera violations as valid debts because they were not debts the people voluntarily signed up to pay.
James C. Walker, National Motorists Association
It is great to see the for-profit red light camera rackets come to an end in Texas. Many thanks to Byron Schirmbeck with the Texas Campaign for Liberty, many members of the National Motorists Association, and many local people & groups who worked tirelessly to end these governmental theft rackets with the cameras. People who live in and/or shop in the few cities that maliciously extended their contracts should stop shopping in those cities until the cameras are gone. Visit each business where you have shopped and tell the owners/managers they can have your business back when the cameras are gone. Business owners have some power with city councils, ask them to use it to end the for-profit camera rackets.
James C. Walker, National Motorists Association
Chief Stevenson seems to think theft from people that may well be innocent is OK. Moral people don't think that way. Civil forfeiture without a conviction for a related crime is theft. PERIOD!
All the officials involved should be prosecuted for larceny with resulting jail sentences if convicted. This must become the law in every state to end the abusive thefts from those not convicted of crimes.
Civil forfeiture without a conviction for a related crime is theft. PERIOD! All the officials involved should be prosecuted for larceny with resulting jail sentences if convicted.
This must become the law in every state to end the abusive thefts from those not convicted of crimes.
Civil forfeiture should be allowed only after a criminal conviction for a related crime. Anything else is theft and all the officials involved should be prosecuted for larceny, with jail time if they are convicted.
James C. Walker, National Motorists Association
Civil forfeiture should be allowed only after conviction for a related crime. Anything else is governmental larceny and all the officials involved should be prosecuted for larceny. James C. Walker, National Motorists Association
Civil forfeiture without a conviction on a related crime is government larceny. The officials involved should be prosecuted for larceny - and if convicted should be barred from serving in governmental positions for life. James C. Walker, National Motorists Association
Civil forfeiture without a conviction for a related crime is governmental larceny. The officials involved should be prosecuted for larceny. James C. Walker, National Motorists Association
Chicago, along with DC, runs one of the most corrupt ticket camera rackets in the nation. The tickets go to mostly safe drivers to steal money "for the dastardly crime of driving safely for the actual conditions". Chicago residents should revolt over the larcenous programs and vote out every camera supporting Alderman and other officials who condone these programs to steal from mostly safe drivers.
This is SO easy to solve. We need a simple federal rule that all license plate numbers recorded by any type of ALPR system be completely deleted from the records after seven days if they do not "get a hit" for a legitimate follow up by authorized law enforcement authorities.
There is a terribly simple solution to license plate readers for the privacy issue. At a maximum of 72 hours, the data on all plates that did not get a hit for further investigation must be permanently deleted from the database. There is NO justification to keep records of peoples' travels when the plate numbers do not cause a probable-cause reason for further investigation.
This is just another insane proposal to tax the commuters and visitors that come to Chicago bringing needed economic activity to make Chicago successful. Make it too onerous to come to Chicago to work or shop and those people will simply take their employment and shopping to other places that aren't trying to rob their wallets so viciously.
Chicago's gesture to reduce camera tickets by 29% is a ruse designed to convince gullible people that the camera racket is now fair. IT IS NOT. If Chicago added one second to the yellow intervals or changed the grace to one full second, the violation rates would drop by about 80%. This would both kill the profits AND reveal that the cameras have been a government-run for-profit racket to ticket mostly safe drivers for the sole purpose of illegitimate profits.
Unfortunately, the federal MUTCD is useless for yellow intervals. It says between 3 and 6 seconds and recommends basing it on slower or faster approach speeds. BUT - that part is a "should" recommendation - not a SHALL (must) requirement. The FHWA refuses to make realistic yellow intervals mandatory in the MUTCD, so for-profit red light camera traps with short yellows are allowed by the MUTCD. The National Motorists Association tried hard for 18 months to get this changed, but gave up after spending several thousand dollars attending engineers meetings where they refused to make correct and safer yellows mandatory.
Increased rear end crashes and near misses as people panic brake to save $490 are common and are a LOT more common when cities like Fremont find excuses to set or leave the yellow intervals too short to increase the amount of revenue literally stolen from safe drivers with the deliberately improper engineering. It is a racket that is essentially equivalent to larceny. NO ONE should support red light cameras, they are always money grab rackets.
"For undisclosed reasons, the city switched the yellow lights back to 4.7 seconds in November."
The rea$on$ yellow$ $witched to 0.7 $econd$ $horter are ab$olutely obviou$, and tho$e rea$on$ do NOT include $afety. In earlier studies, adding 0.7 seconds to the yellows dropped the violation rate by over 70% and the reduction was permanent, not temporary as the predatory for-profit camera companies like Redflex and ATS falsely claim.
Fremont continues to do business with Redflex. There are now five guilty pleas or verdicts in federal Redflex related indictments for fraud, bribery or extortion. NO ONE should do business with Redflex, and perhaps it tells us more about Fremont's insistence on keeping the predatory government-run money-grab racket of red light cameras in operation. The rea$on$ are obviou$ to all of u$.
Yet we have the Michigan versus Sitz case where the Supreme Court wrongfully decided it was OK to make traffic stops with absolutely no evidence that any particular driver has done anything wrong. Such roadblocks that stop an overwhelmingly large percentage of totally innocent drivers are completely wrong. Yes, they find a tiny percentage of drivers with issues, but in the particular case it was 2 arrests versus 124 innocent drivers sent on their way. The founding fathers would be appalled at how this ruling violates the Fourth Amendment principles.
This suit needs to prevail and the city be required to refund enormous numbers of the illegal camera tickets where the city failed to follow the existing laws.
All red light and speed camera programs are predatory money grab scams, but when even the simplest laws of procedure are not followed the money grab scams become robbery.
James C. Walker, Life Member - National Motorists Association
AZ residents need to call their state Representatives and Senators to insist on a TOTAL ban on speed and red light cameras in the state. Tell each legislator that NO ticket cameras are acceptable any longer and you want the entire corrupt money grab industry gone from the state. Let them know that NOT voting for a total ban means they are "in the pocket" of the for profit camera companies based in Arizona and that this is utterly unacceptable to you. Contact info: http://www.azleg.gov/alisStaticPages/HowToContactMember.asp
James C. Walker, Life Member - National Motorists Association
Civil forfeiture
Civil forfeiture without a conviction for a related crime is governmental larceny. PERIOD. All the officials involved should be tried for larceny and go to jail if convicted.
James C. Walker, National Motorists Association
Re:
The three major credit reporting agencies stopped accepting unpaid ticket camera violations as valid debts because they were not debts the people voluntarily signed up to pay.
James C. Walker, National Motorists Association
Ending red light camera rackets
It is great to see the for-profit red light camera rackets come to an end in Texas. Many thanks to Byron Schirmbeck with the Texas Campaign for Liberty, many members of the National Motorists Association, and many local people & groups who worked tirelessly to end these governmental theft rackets with the cameras. People who live in and/or shop in the few cities that maliciously extended their contracts should stop shopping in those cities until the cameras are gone. Visit each business where you have shopped and tell the owners/managers they can have your business back when the cameras are gone. Business owners have some power with city councils, ask them to use it to end the for-profit camera rackets.
James C. Walker, National Motorists Association
Chief Stevenson seems to think theft from people that may well be innocent is OK. Moral people don't think that way. Civil forfeiture without a conviction for a related crime is theft. PERIOD!
All the officials involved should be prosecuted for larceny with resulting jail sentences if convicted. This must become the law in every state to end the abusive thefts from those not convicted of crimes.
James C. Walker, National Motorists Association
Civil forfeiture without a conviction for a related crime is theft. PERIOD! All the officials involved should be prosecuted for larceny with resulting jail sentences if convicted.
This must become the law in every state to end the abusive thefts from those not convicted of crimes.
James C. Walker, National Motorists Association
Civil forfeiture should be allowed only after a criminal conviction for a related crime. Anything else is theft and all the officials involved should be prosecuted for larceny, with jail time if they are convicted. James C. Walker, National Motorists Association
Civil forfeiture larceny
Civil forfeiture should be allowed only after conviction for a related crime. Anything else is governmental larceny and all the officials involved should be prosecuted for larceny.
James C. Walker, National Motorists Association
Forfeiture
Civil forfeiture without a conviction on a related crime is government larceny. The officials involved should be prosecuted for larceny - and if convicted should be barred from serving in governmental positions for life.
James C. Walker, National Motorists Association
Civil Forfeiture often = governmental larceny
Civil forfeiture without a conviction for a related crime is governmental larceny. The officials involved should be prosecuted for larceny.
James C. Walker, National Motorists Association
Corrupt ticket cameras
Chicago, along with DC, runs one of the most corrupt ticket camera rackets in the nation. The tickets go to mostly safe drivers to steal money "for the dastardly crime of driving safely for the actual conditions". Chicago residents should revolt over the larcenous programs and vote out every camera supporting Alderman and other officials who condone these programs to steal from mostly safe drivers.
James C. Walker, National Motorists Association
ALPR time limit
This is SO easy to solve. We need a simple federal rule that all license plate numbers recorded by any type of ALPR system be completely deleted from the records after seven days if they do not "get a hit" for a legitimate follow up by authorized law enforcement authorities.
James C. Walker, National Motorists Association
License Plate Readers
There is a terribly simple solution to license plate readers for the privacy issue. At a maximum of 72 hours, the data on all plates that did not get a hit for further investigation must be permanently deleted from the database. There is NO justification to keep records of peoples' travels when the plate numbers do not cause a probable-cause reason for further investigation.
James C. Walker, National Motorists Association
Taxing sources of economic growth
This is just another insane proposal to tax the commuters and visitors that come to Chicago bringing needed economic activity to make Chicago successful. Make it too onerous to come to Chicago to work or shop and those people will simply take their employment and shopping to other places that aren't trying to rob their wallets so viciously.
James C. Walker, National Motorists Association
Red light cameras
Chicago's gesture to reduce camera tickets by 29% is a ruse designed to convince gullible people that the camera racket is now fair. IT IS NOT. If Chicago added one second to the yellow intervals or changed the grace to one full second, the violation rates would drop by about 80%. This would both kill the profits AND reveal that the cameras have been a government-run for-profit racket to ticket mostly safe drivers for the sole purpose of illegitimate profits.
James C. Walker, National Motorists Association
Re: A few thoughts
Unfortunately, the federal MUTCD is useless for yellow intervals. It says between 3 and 6 seconds and recommends basing it on slower or faster approach speeds. BUT - that part is a "should" recommendation - not a SHALL (must) requirement. The FHWA refuses to make realistic yellow intervals mandatory in the MUTCD, so for-profit red light camera traps with short yellows are allowed by the MUTCD. The National Motorists Association tried hard for 18 months to get this changed, but gave up after spending several thousand dollars attending engineers meetings where they refused to make correct and safer yellows mandatory.
James C. Walker, National Motorists Association
Re: RLC rear end crashes
Increased rear end crashes and near misses as people panic brake to save $490 are common and are a LOT more common when cities like Fremont find excuses to set or leave the yellow intervals too short to increase the amount of revenue literally stolen from safe drivers with the deliberately improper engineering. It is a racket that is essentially equivalent to larceny. NO ONE should support red light cameras, they are always money grab rackets.
James C. Walker, National Motorists Association
Red light camera rackets
"For undisclosed reasons, the city switched the yellow lights back to 4.7 seconds in November."
The rea$on$ yellow$ $witched to 0.7 $econd$ $horter are ab$olutely obviou$, and tho$e rea$on$ do NOT include $afety. In earlier studies, adding 0.7 seconds to the yellows dropped the violation rate by over 70% and the reduction was permanent, not temporary as the predatory for-profit camera companies like Redflex and ATS falsely claim.
Fremont continues to do business with Redflex. There are now five guilty pleas or verdicts in federal Redflex related indictments for fraud, bribery or extortion. NO ONE should do business with Redflex, and perhaps it tells us more about Fremont's insistence on keeping the predatory government-run money-grab racket of red light cameras in operation. The rea$on$ are obviou$ to all of u$.
James C. Walker, National Motorists Association
Unconstitutional issues with traffic stops
Yet we have the Michigan versus Sitz case where the Supreme Court wrongfully decided it was OK to make traffic stops with absolutely no evidence that any particular driver has done anything wrong. Such roadblocks that stop an overwhelmingly large percentage of totally innocent drivers are completely wrong. Yes, they find a tiny percentage of drivers with issues, but in the particular case it was 2 arrests versus 124 innocent drivers sent on their way. The founding fathers would be appalled at how this ruling violates the Fourth Amendment principles.
Chicago red light camera lawsuit
This suit needs to prevail and the city be required to refund enormous numbers of the illegal camera tickets where the city failed to follow the existing laws.
All red light and speed camera programs are predatory money grab scams, but when even the simplest laws of procedure are not followed the money grab scams become robbery.
James C. Walker, Life Member - National Motorists Association
Ticket scameras
AZ residents need to call their state Representatives and Senators to insist on a TOTAL ban on speed and red light cameras in the state. Tell each legislator that NO ticket cameras are acceptable any longer and you want the entire corrupt money grab industry gone from the state. Let them know that NOT voting for a total ban means they are "in the pocket" of the for profit camera companies based in Arizona and that this is utterly unacceptable to you. Contact info:
http://www.azleg.gov/alisStaticPages/HowToContactMember.asp
James C. Walker, Life Member - National Motorists Association