Why blacks can't breathe

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Originally Posted by Tom Joad

I was responding to all of shelties post, not about the cameras. Cameras don't profile people. They'll catch the Mayor in his Cadillac just as fast as they'll catch some poor schmuck in his $600 craigslist beater.

It's the Cops that deliberately profile and harass poor people that are the problem.

Actually the mayors decide whether to have the cameras or not, along with council members and/or city managers. In other words local municipalities.
You have to remember that a city or county rewards a contract to the camera companies, and I would be surprised if they themselves do not somehow get out of these tickets should they get caught on video in their own system.

I think it would be interesting to study traffic cams and the demographic populations of the communities that have them and to see if any bias is going on. From what I read, the amount of fines received by the Ferguson city from traffic violations went up 60 percent in the last 5 years. Do not know if cams had an impact there.

Finnbow is right. Voters can ditch the cams if they lean on the local governments hard enough. We did it in Murrieta.