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"Cop in a Box" Coming to RR Crossings
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All those legal questions were raised and answered when Paradise Valley, Arizona, fielded automated speed traps back in the late 80's. <br /> <br />What surprised the folks in PV was not the machine, it was the people. The revenue from tickets issued by the machine paid for the machine within a year. PV was not ready for the huge quantity of photos taken. <br /> <br />This is the major difference between a cop running a trap (or visual deterrent post, to be politically correct) and a box. The box doesn't have the discretion a cop does, and will happily take pictures of everyone. You can't give a weak excuse to a camera. They just don't listen. Of course, cops don't really pay any attention to excuses, either, but at least they are interactive. <br /> <br />(I have yet to hear of an automated system responding to a cute young thang quite the way a hardened deputy sheriff with a traffic ticket book will.) <br /> <br />Erik
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