Are you for or against traffic cameras?
402738
I am for traffic cameras, as long as they function correctly.  \nPeople who receive tickets after running a red light will be more careful the second time around, but there are some traffic cameras that merely photograph any car that runs two seconds after the YELLOW light kicks in......leading to a lot of misunderstandings and discrepancies against traffic cameras.
316429
I'd rather not get any tickets at all ...I can't choose because I just don't want any, no matter what it's for, I try my best to obey the law and not waste the police's time by doing something stupid when they could be out chasing the real bad guys...sorry, just can't pick one, don't want any..lol
1171094
it surpises me that the police do not film the events like the arrest of the two suspects recently, from helmet cameras to show exactly what has happened, if only to protect themselves etc.\n\nIt is a difficult call when one segment of the community which is clearly identifiable by colour or religion contain members who pose significant threat to the rest of society, because inevitibly there will be accusations of targetting. But it does seem to make sense to stop and search/question more of those perceived to be a threat especially if you have limited resource, or am I wrong?\n\nAs for the heavy handed approach, surely if the ultimate precautions are taken to ensure no one is hurt no 'collateral damage' for example, this is always going to be the result seen from some eyes. The important thing to remember is why they do it. Not because they they are racist or anti this or that, but because litigation and public pressure for the ultimate in standards dictates they go to these lengths. \n\nI don't think they can win, the information they get is often false, flawed and deliberately misleading, but they have to act, just in case. If the press reported in a less sensationalist way I am sure that would help a lot.
1187660
Yeah. Since some people break the speed limit laws, I should get to murder people.\n\nJust because someone else wrongs, that doesn't justify allowing people to continue to break the law.\n\nThat's hypocritical: Having laws and not enforcing them.
688140
You have the legal right to take photographs of public places, but business generally don't like it because many thieves/criminals take pics to plan for their crimes, so you can understand their policies of trying to scare off anyone taking pictures.
985530
Its your property, you can have cameras wherever you want.
88878
YES!  It was cool!  \nI was on a business trip in Anchorage, Alaska when I drove around the corner and there he was walking down the middle of the road right in front of my hotel! (A common occurance there.) People had to pull off the road and stop and of course to take pictures.  I was so happy I had my camera!  I took 3 good pictures one right next to my drivers side car window!  He even sort of snorted at me. If I had known at the time how dangerous that was, I probably would've never gotten that close...but it was worth it as the picture looks great on my refrigerator!\n\n:)\nPeace!
729250
The UK is home to around 20% of all the world's overt CCTV cameras (roughly four million, or one for every fourteen or fifteen people).  However these figures don't consider covert cameras, such as those mounted in police patrol cars.  Nor do they acknowledge public webcams or domestic CCTV.\n\nFor what it's worth the majority of these systems are passively monitored until needed, but with year-by-year advances in pattern recognition technology (read: AI) there'll be a greater degree of automated active monitoring.\n\nAnd with respect to your talk of black boxes in cars...  It's just a matter of time.  The current trend toward more and more toll roads will require some kind of convergent monitoring, and little black boxes with GPS capability will go a long way toward allowing that.  (Red Ken Livingstone would just LOVE one of those on YOUR car, whether you live in London or otherwise.)\n\nFurthermore, the capacity of CCTV to "catch" criminals is completely overshadowed by the courts inability to effectively prosecute them.  Any suggestion that CCTV makes our streets safer is a myth busted wide open by independant, authorative observation (that's you and me).\n\n(Do you really believe the streets are safer to walk these days?  I don't.  I can see it with my own eyes, and I don't have to watch the broadcast news or read the papers every single day to appreciate it.  CCTV will NOT protect you, me, our friends or our families.  It does not deter.  At best it affords a visual record of past events, and at worse it offers a false sense of security.)\n\nAs for this Government's fascination with ID cards and greater immigration and anti-terrorism controls, any monitoring technology that may benefit that end will definitely be employed for tasks beyond its original purpose; this is the norm.  At great cost to the taxpayer, and with a contrasting threat to civil liberties.  (Read: we're paying toward an Orwellian future.)\n\nThere's a pattern forming here, and never before has the word 'monitoring' taken on such an ominous undertone.\n\nOh, and that old classic line of "If you've got nothing to hide then you've nothing to fear" is a fallacy.  We, all of us, strive to be private citizens.  We, all of us, have something to hide, whether it's our sexual preference, secret crush, betting addiction, bank ballance or exam results.\n\nThe plain and simple truth of it is that we, all of us, have something to fear from a Big Brother state.  Oppression is born of an ideal, yet matures through ignorance and denial.  But even though history is a damn fine teacher we so easily forget the past.
882747
Suppose it was not a photo system but instead a cop standing there. If the local rule is no tolerance for speeding you would have gotten the same ticket for 41 in a 40 zone. So the camera has nothing to do with it. \n\nBesides even if the camera observed you going over the limit there is still a review by a human who will see the speed number on the image.\n\nWhatever the local rule is that is taken into account in the tickets (and I am sure 1 mph over is not considered violating a speed limit).
241621
depends if you know the person or not? are they driving by to get somewhere or do they do it for the purpose of watching you. do they give you any reason to think there is something wierd about it or are you just asking a general question to get general answers.
704210
Unfortunately too many people love to sue. In this case, I feel that you were in the wrong. You stopped, used a turn signal and then changing your mind, continued into traffic without making sure it was clear.
761304
Well...it is definately one of the most intrusive states in the world, without a doubt.\n\nI read recently that in the district of Hammersmith there we over 14 different cameras directed at a single roundabout, from police cameras to council fine cameras to business protection cameras.\n\nI would say, that the country is definately more big brother than it ever has been before..especially since the arrival of that paranoid egotistical PM Blair..maybe he is the CEO of endemol!! who knows!!!\n\nSo YES it is becoming a surveillance state, where as before hand there was just the usual security etc that any western state has.\n\nIt makes you wonder and begin to question whether or not it really is a liberal democratic state..or a silent dictatorship...
327135
Duh!  i would poop on the side of the road!  No big deal if I've got T.P.  maybe I would walk a little bit into the woods if there are woods there to save other motorists from the sight and save myself from a possible ticket
1121092
I complained on my neighbors for creating a traffic hazard with their remote control cars on the road.\nThe police came and they  were arrested,they were wanted for attempted murder.\nThank God I did not contront them !
700178
Only in one direction which is according to which side of the road its parked.  The camera is pointed from the rear of the van pointing to face the oncoming traffic. x
627438
Most city transit buses and school buses have video cameras these days.  cuts down on the vandalism and enables authorities to identify miscreants.
934996
Too many mouses here in Britain.\n\n£8 just to enter the city? Your having a fecking laugh.\n\nI suggest that everybody melts a congestion/speed camera today and send a clear message that we dont want these petty little men charging us for the right to use OUR cars on public roads.