Area drivers looking to outwit police speed traps and traffic cameras are using an iPhone application and other global positioning system devices that pinpoint the location of the cameras.
That has irked D.C. police chief Cathy Lanier.
This has nothing to do with writing tickets, mind you. They give all that ticket money to, uh, well to a worthy cause. That’s all. And nothing slips by the chief!
“I think that’s the whole point of this program,” she told The Examiner. “It’s designed to circumvent law enforcement…
Dang! She’s on to us!
Lanier said the technology is a “cowardly tactic” and “people who overly rely on those and break the law anyway are going to get caught” in one way or another.
One way or another? OK. I can think of one way. That would be by getting pulled over and getting a ticket, or maybe getting arrested if you’re stupid enough to use the why aren’t you out catching crooks I help pay your salary gambit so near and dear to every cop’s heart. But what’s the other? And what’s overly? And, speaking of overly,
The greater D.C. area has 290 red-light and speed cameras — comprising nearly 10 percent of all traffic cameras in the U.S.
I don’t think these people are cowardly. I think anybody who gets behind the wheel with one-tenth of the traffic cameras in the entire country AND Chief Cathy Lanier on his case might be a lot of unsavory things but cowardly ain’t one of them.
So, no matter what happens to you brave folks in the D.C. area, remember to SMILE. Because… (H/T Washington Examiner)
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