City to install 66 Traffic Violation Cameras at City Intersections?

[Lunican]

I think I read something about this before... oh yeah, it was in the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

[gatorback]

On a similar, equally creepy note, Daytona police officers have begun taking DNA samples from people pulled over for routine traffic stops in order to help catch a serial killer. If the person is pulled over for any reason, even a burnt out tail light, and they "match a similar profile" as the man believed to be the killer, police will swab the inside of the drivers mouth with a DNA kit. The ultra specific profile? "A clean cut male who possibly has a wife or girlfriend." I mean, you can't make this stuff up. They are also taking DNA from every single person arrested in Daytona Beach. Doesn't matter if the person is proven to be innocent as can be in a court of law, their DNA will stay remain on record, presumably forever. It's enough to make me want to stay out of Daytona Beach for a long, long time. 

Story: http://www.local6.com/news/15232197/detail.html?related

Okay, that's bullshit.  Rrrr., I mean Go America I love you.  Please don't investigate me. 

PS.  I dated a PD.  I was told if you just sit down, and say nothing, no matter what you can bail out without giving anybody anything.   

[jandar]

Why not allow the traffic cameras with the caveat that the state schools get 90% of the ticket price like they do in North Carolina.

That way no company or city could profit, after all, traffic tickets are not supposed to be a revenue generator.

[gatorback]

100 % to parks. I don't have any use for public schools .

[stephendare]

here are the locations of the first ten.  http://www.metrojacksonville.com/forum/index.php/topic,1698.msg13515/topicseen.html#new

[walter]

Be advised these are not traffic citations, they are civil penalites like a parking ticket.  There is a law against sending someone a traffic ticket based upon a camera, see this recent article http://www.ocala.com/article/20080224/NEWS/802240350/1368/googlesitemapnews

[Charles Hunter]

That list does not make sense, for the reasons I listed in the linked thread.  Some either are interchanges now, or are about to go under construction to become overpasses.