Washington, DC Makes 40.5 million in One Year From Cameras

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District, Montgomery Co. Make $52M from Cameras posted 12/10/09

WASHINGTON – Speed and red light cameras have brought in $52 million in fines in Montgomery County (web | news) and the District this year, according to AAA.

Some drivers are mad about that total. Sergio Ramos said, “Speed cameras, they are useless…People just speed up right after they pass the lines.”

The cameras have been extremely busy to say the least. The District and its neighboring Maryland county collected $52 million in fines from just speed cameras this past fiscal year. Over 640,000 tickets were mailed to speeders and red light runners in D.C. alone. Talkback:
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According to AAA, the District is writing more speed and red light camera tickets than ever before, collecting more than $40 million.

“I probably paid most of it. I’ve been nailed four or five times…,” said commuter John Gwynn. “it gets you where it goes from 40 to 30 {mph} always.”

But these local jurisdictions have always maintained, these cameras prevent accidents and save lives. This Commuter tends to Agree.

“Well, the benefit is, when you know that it’s there traffic will slow down to avoid getting a ticket,” stated commuter Terrell Allen.

Currently, 400 jurisdictions across the nation operate red light camera programs while speed cameras are only used in 46 other jurisdictions. Some are convinced they were created to make money.

“It’s just a ruse to get money out of ya,” said Gwynn.

Here are those numbers from AAA Mid-Atlantic:

Washington DC
Fiscal Year 2009: collected a grand total of $40.5 million
of that $33,377,810 was in speed camera ticket revenue and $7,153,622 in revenue from its red-light camera program (see PDF)

Montgomery County Fiscal Year 2009: collected $18.6 million in speed camera revenue (see the PDF for more speed camera information from the county)

December 11, 2009  Tags: , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Government Revenue Scam, Police State, Red Light Cameras, Speeding Ticket, Ticket Cameras

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  1. Cops Shoot Robocops - December 11, 2009

    Here in Knoxville TN the cops shoot the redlight scameras. With bullets.

    For everyone else, just ignore them and they will go away.

    “It is extremely easy to beat this type of ticket in court. Your easiest defense is to simply throw the ticket away. If it does not come with a return receipt that requires a signature, there is no proof that you actually got the ticket and they cannot prosecute you on that.”
    -Norman G. Fernandez attorney, “How to Beat a Speeding Ticket – Photo RADAR”
    bikerlawyer.net/how-to-beat-a-speeding-ticket.pdf

    “I saw two officers as before, who rode up to me, with their pistols in their hands, said God damn you stop, if go an Inch further, you are a dead Man, and swore if we did not turn in to that pasture, they would blow our brains out. Major Mitchel of the 5th Regt clapd his Pistol to my head, and said he was going to ask me some questions, if I did not tell the truth, he would blow my brains out. I told him I esteemed myself a man of truth, that he had stopped me on the highway, & made me a prisoner, I knew not by what right; I would tell him the truth; I was not afraid.”
    —Colonel Paul Revere, owner of RevereWare¨, sworn affidavit: Memorandum on Events of April 18, 1775 (declassified Top Secret), while under arrest (and subsequent escape) from Redcoat martial-law traffic police at Minute Man National Historic Park, Paul Revere Capture Site, kicking off the American Revolutionary War (British-American Civil War), at the Battle of Lexington and Concord with justifiable homicide in self defense by shooting and killing over 200 traffic copster slaves of King George III, heriditary dictator of England, Paul Revere’s Ride, by David Hackett Fischer
    patriotresource.com/documents/revere.html

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