DC traffic cameras issued 3.3 MILLION tickets last year

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Anonymous wrote:Looks like Kenyan McDuffie wants to make the explosion in traffic camera tickets an issue in the mayoral race.

"We also don’t want to continue to prey on folks with traffic tickets and enforcement in ways that communities have been plagued by increasing costs. We know that there are folks in this city simply trying to figure out ways to get to work favorably, simply trying to figure out ways to make money, to take care of themselves and their families, and we want to lighten that load for them."

https://wtop.com/dc/2026/01/kenyan-mcduffie-announces-run-for-mayor-tells-wtop-why-hes-entering-the-race/

About a year and a half ago, a DC-licensed driver of a vehicle that had accumulated literally thousands of dollars in speeding tickets hit an elderly pedestrian as she walked across a crosswalk in my neighborhood.

The driver struck the elderly pedestrian with enough force to throw her about a hundred feet down the road, despite it being a 25mph zone.

Despite having thousands of dollars in unpaid fines, the driver had been able to re-register her vehicle, renew her license, and generally go about her business without any fear of suffering any consequences for her unpaid speeding tickets.

In just the past month, an MPD officer - Terry Bennett - and another pedestrian - Aaron Marckell Williams - were killed by drivers with extensive records of speeding tickets and another infractions.

For the complete lack of consequences enjoyed by sociopathic drivers in DC, we have council members like Kenyon McDuffie to thank.

But Kenyon Duffie is worried that folks are being preyed on by “traffic tickets and enforcement”.

Patricia Bollinger. Officer Terry Bennett. Aaron Marckell Williams. Mohamed Kamara. Jonathan Cabrera Mendez. Olvin Torres Velasquez.

All died at the hands of drivers that Kenyon McDuffie feels are being preyed upon on by “traffic tickets and enforcement”.

I can’t wait to ask him exactly what enforcement these drivers faced before they killed an elderly DC resident, a 26 year-old pedestrian from Southeast, an MPD officer who graduated from Ballou High School and Bucknell University, and three rideshare passengers. If anyone else has any insights, please feel free to share.

cameras are useless, except for the profits they generate for the camera companies.

Dozens of rigorous studies say otherwise, but why bother with them when we’ve got your vibes to go on.

Look at the evidence right in front of you. Over the past decade, DC increased ticketing by ten fold. We now issue more tickets per capita than probably anywhere else in the entire world. We issue so many tickets that AAA now warns drivers about DC (AAA calls the ticketing in DC "predatory"). And what happened? Traffic deaths did not decline.

It’s very sad that you have never learned the difference between correlation and causation. Until you better educate yourself on these concepts and about the existence of studies that use various statistical techniques to infer causation, I’d advise against voicing any further opinions about the effectiveness of public policy interventions lest others hold you in lesser esteem.

The number of Washingtonians killed each year by speeding drivers has been going up, not down, even as the number of tickets issued has exploded. Per the Bowser administration:

2024: 20
2023: 22
2022: 9
2021: 12
2020: 15
2019: 10
2018: 9
2017: 12
2016: 8
2015: 11
2014: 12
2013: 11

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looks like Kenyan McDuffie wants to make the explosion in traffic camera tickets an issue in the mayoral race.

"We also don’t want to continue to prey on folks with traffic tickets and enforcement in ways that communities have been plagued by increasing costs. We know that there are folks in this city simply trying to figure out ways to get to work favorably, simply trying to figure out ways to make money, to take care of themselves and their families, and we want to lighten that load for them."

https://wtop.com/dc/2026/01/kenyan-mcduffie-announces-run-for-mayor-tells-wtop-why-hes-entering-the-race/

About a year and a half ago, a DC-licensed driver of a vehicle that had accumulated literally thousands of dollars in speeding tickets hit an elderly pedestrian as she walked across a crosswalk in my neighborhood.

The driver struck the elderly pedestrian with enough force to throw her about a hundred feet down the road, despite it being a 25mph zone.

Despite having thousands of dollars in unpaid fines, the driver had been able to re-register her vehicle, renew her license, and generally go about her business without any fear of suffering any consequences for her unpaid speeding tickets.

In just the past month, an MPD officer - Terry Bennett - and another pedestrian - Aaron Marckell Williams - were killed by drivers with extensive records of speeding tickets and another infractions.

For the complete lack of consequences enjoyed by sociopathic drivers in DC, we have council members like Kenyon McDuffie to thank.

But Kenyon Duffie is worried that folks are being preyed on by “traffic tickets and enforcement”.

Patricia Bollinger. Officer Terry Bennett. Aaron Marckell Williams. Mohamed Kamara. Jonathan Cabrera Mendez. Olvin Torres Velasquez.

All died at the hands of drivers that Kenyon McDuffie feels are being preyed upon on by “traffic tickets and enforcement”.

I can’t wait to ask him exactly what enforcement these drivers faced before they killed an elderly DC resident, a 26 year-old pedestrian from Southeast, an MPD officer who graduated from Ballou High School and Bucknell University, and three rideshare passengers. If anyone else has any insights, please feel free to share.

cameras are useless, except for the profits they generate for the camera companies.

Dozens of rigorous studies say otherwise, but why bother with them when we’ve got your vibes to go on.

Look at the evidence right in front of you. Over the past decade, DC increased ticketing by ten fold. We now issue more tickets per capita than probably anywhere else in the entire world. We issue so many tickets that AAA now warns drivers about DC (AAA calls the ticketing in DC "predatory"). And what happened? Traffic deaths did not decline.

An interesting observation, but the Congressional Research Service (CRS), National Highway Traffic Safety Association (NHTSA), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) are probably better informed and maybe a little bit more objective than you (or the AAA for that matter).

As noted in the CRS report on automated traffic enforcement (ATE) (https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/R/PDF/R46552/R46552.1.pdf),

"There have been many studies of speed camera programs; most have concluded that speed cameras reduced speeding and/or crashes in the vicinity of the cameras, and in some cases in the surrounding areas. Several reviews that looked at dozens of studies from around the world found that despite methodological issues in most studies, speed cameras reduce speeding and/or crashes. In its evidence-based guide to traffic safety measures, NHTSA gives ATE (including both speed cameras and red light cameras) the highest rating for effectiveness; the setting of speed limits themselves is the only other countermeasure rated as demonstrated to be effective in limiting speeding. Similarly, automated speed enforcement is the only speeding-related countermeasure included by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in its tool to enable states to model cost-effective interventions to reduce traffic deaths and injuries. The NTSB also considers automated speed enforcement to be “an effective countermeasure to reduce speeding-related crashes, fatalities, and injuries.”

Or would you rather we have more speeding-related crashes, fatalities, and injuries?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looks like Kenyan McDuffie wants to make the explosion in traffic camera tickets an issue in the mayoral race.

"We also don’t want to continue to prey on folks with traffic tickets and enforcement in ways that communities have been plagued by increasing costs. We know that there are folks in this city simply trying to figure out ways to get to work favorably, simply trying to figure out ways to make money, to take care of themselves and their families, and we want to lighten that load for them."

https://wtop.com/dc/2026/01/kenyan-mcduffie-announces-run-for-mayor-tells-wtop-why-hes-entering-the-race/

About a year and a half ago, a DC-licensed driver of a vehicle that had accumulated literally thousands of dollars in speeding tickets hit an elderly pedestrian as she walked across a crosswalk in my neighborhood.

The driver struck the elderly pedestrian with enough force to throw her about a hundred feet down the road, despite it being a 25mph zone.

Despite having thousands of dollars in unpaid fines, the driver had been able to re-register her vehicle, renew her license, and generally go about her business without any fear of suffering any consequences for her unpaid speeding tickets.

In just the past month, an MPD officer - Terry Bennett - and another pedestrian - Aaron Marckell Williams - were killed by drivers with extensive records of speeding tickets and another infractions.

For the complete lack of consequences enjoyed by sociopathic drivers in DC, we have council members like Kenyon McDuffie to thank.

But Kenyon Duffie is worried that folks are being preyed on by “traffic tickets and enforcement”.

Patricia Bollinger. Officer Terry Bennett. Aaron Marckell Williams. Mohamed Kamara. Jonathan Cabrera Mendez. Olvin Torres Velasquez.

All died at the hands of drivers that Kenyon McDuffie feels are being preyed upon on by “traffic tickets and enforcement”.

I can’t wait to ask him exactly what enforcement these drivers faced before they killed an elderly DC resident, a 26 year-old pedestrian from Southeast, an MPD officer who graduated from Ballou High School and Bucknell University, and three rideshare passengers. If anyone else has any insights, please feel free to share.

cameras are useless, except for the profits they generate for the camera companies.

Dozens of rigorous studies say otherwise, but why bother with them when we’ve got your vibes to go on.

Look at the evidence right in front of you. Over the past decade, DC increased ticketing by ten fold. We now issue more tickets per capita than probably anywhere else in the entire world. We issue so many tickets that AAA now warns drivers about DC (AAA calls the ticketing in DC "predatory"). And what happened? Traffic deaths did not decline.

It’s very sad that you have never learned the difference between correlation and causation. Until you better educate yourself on these concepts and about the existence of studies that use various statistical techniques to infer causation, I’d advise against voicing any further opinions about the effectiveness of public policy interventions lest others hold you in lesser esteem.

The number of Washingtonians killed each year by speeding drivers has been going up, not down, even as the number of tickets issued has exploded. Per the Bowser administration:

2024: 20
2023: 22
2022: 9
2021: 12
2020: 15
2019: 10
2018: 9
2017: 12
2016: 8
2015: 11
2014: 12
2013: 11

You again! And your lies haven't changed one iota . . .

No, those are not the numbers of people killed by speeding drivers, as has been explained to you probably more than a dozen times.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Looks like Kenyan McDuffie wants to make the explosion in traffic camera tickets an issue in the mayoral race.

"We also don’t want to continue to prey on folks with traffic tickets and enforcement in ways that communities have been plagued by increasing costs. We know that there are folks in this city simply trying to figure out ways to get to work favorably, simply trying to figure out ways to make money, to take care of themselves and their families, and we want to lighten that load for them."

https://wtop.com/dc/2026/01/kenyan-mcduffie-announces-run-for-mayor-tells-wtop-why-hes-entering-the-race/

About a year and a half ago, a DC-licensed driver of a vehicle that had accumulated literally thousands of dollars in speeding tickets hit an elderly pedestrian as she walked across a crosswalk in my neighborhood.

The driver struck the elderly pedestrian with enough force to throw her about a hundred feet down the road, despite it being a 25mph zone.

Despite having thousands of dollars in unpaid fines, the driver had been able to re-register her vehicle, renew her license, and generally go about her business without any fear of suffering any consequences for her unpaid speeding tickets.

In just the past month, an MPD officer - Terry Bennett - and another pedestrian - Aaron Marckell Williams - were killed by drivers with extensive records of speeding tickets and another infractions.

For the complete lack of consequences enjoyed by sociopathic drivers in DC, we have council members like Kenyon McDuffie to thank.

But Kenyon Duffie is worried that folks are being preyed on by “traffic tickets and enforcement”.

Patricia Bollinger. Officer Terry Bennett. Aaron Marckell Williams. Mohamed Kamara. Jonathan Cabrera Mendez. Olvin Torres Velasquez.

All died at the hands of drivers that Kenyon McDuffie feels are being preyed upon on by “traffic tickets and enforcement”.

I can’t wait to ask him exactly what enforcement these drivers faced before they killed an elderly DC resident, a 26 year-old pedestrian from Southeast, an MPD officer who graduated from Ballou High School and Bucknell University, and three rideshare passengers. If anyone else has any insights, please feel free to share.

cameras are useless, except for the profits they generate for the camera companies.

Dozens of rigorous studies say otherwise, but why bother with them when we’ve got your vibes to go on.

Look at the evidence right in front of you. Over the past decade, DC increased ticketing by ten fold. We now issue more tickets per capita than probably anywhere else in the entire world. We issue so many tickets that AAA now warns drivers about DC (AAA calls the ticketing in DC "predatory"). And what happened? Traffic deaths did not decline.

An interesting observation, but the Congressional Research Service (CRS), National Highway Traffic Safety Association (NHTSA), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) are probably better informed and maybe a little bit more objective than you (or the AAA for that matter).

As noted in the CRS report on automated traffic enforcement (ATE) (https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/R/PDF/R46552/R46552.1.pdf),

"There have been many studies of speed camera programs; most have concluded that speed cameras reduced speeding and/or crashes in the vicinity of the cameras, and in some cases in the surrounding areas. Several reviews that looked at dozens of studies from around the world found that despite methodological issues in most studies, speed cameras reduce speeding and/or crashes. In its evidence-based guide to traffic safety measures, NHTSA gives ATE (including both speed cameras and red light cameras) the highest rating for effectiveness; the setting of speed limits themselves is the only other countermeasure rated as demonstrated to be effective in limiting speeding. Similarly, automated speed enforcement is the only speeding-related countermeasure included by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in its tool to enable states to model cost-effective interventions to reduce traffic deaths and injuries. The NTSB also considers automated speed enforcement to be “an effective countermeasure to reduce speeding-related crashes, fatalities, and injuries.”

Or would you rather we have more speeding-related crashes, fatalities, and injuries?

Ok, so when did the explosion in ticketing begin to reduce traffic deaths? Which year? Here's the number of speeding-driver deaths in DC from the past decade:

2024: 20
2023: 22
2022: 9
2021: 12
2020: 15
2019: 10
2018: 9
2017: 12
2016: 8
2015: 11
2014: 12
2013: 11

[Anonymous]

I loathe the cameras but I consistently drive more slowly because of them. I also wait impatiently at red lights rather than stopping, looking, and taking a right, which is the more rational, non-DC approach. I also dutifully pay any tickets I get. Notably, however, I see dozens of cars every day that speed, run red lights, drive around me when I’m stopped at a red so they can turn right. It occurs to me that the cameras only impact certain people.

[Anonymous]

I pretty much agree with the anti-camera people. They don’t work well enough.

It’s time to redesign our streets to deprioritize cars instead. It’s clear they won’t behave themselves so it’s time to start removing them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The city has increased the number of traffic tickets it issues each year by 10X and yet the number of traffic deaths in this city is statistically unchanged from 20 years ago. Hard to see how one thing has affected the other. The main purpose seems to be generating revenue for the government.

So you're admitting that DC drivers don't care about laws and consequences.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The city has increased the number of traffic tickets it issues each year by 10X and yet the number of traffic deaths in this city is statistically unchanged from 20 years ago. Hard to see how one thing has affected the other. The main purpose seems to be generating revenue for the government.

So you're admitting that DC drivers don't care about laws and consequences.

Have you seen the guys on mopeds and e-bikes blowing stop signs at 40mph? Have you seen cyclists? They don't obey *any* traffic laws. I'd say drivers are the most law abiding people on the road.

[Anonymous]

The speed cameras aren't located in areas with pedestrians. They're located on roads where you could conceivably go very fast, which aren't where pedestrians tend to be. For example, do you see pedestrians walking along the Potomac River Freeway? Or on DC-295? Or in the K Street tunnel? Come on folks, of course pedestrian fatalities don't decrease because of the cameras because the cameras aren't placed where the pedestrians are!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looks like Kenyan McDuffie wants to make the explosion in traffic camera tickets an issue in the mayoral race.

"We also don’t want to continue to prey on folks with traffic tickets and enforcement in ways that communities have been plagued by increasing costs. We know that there are folks in this city simply trying to figure out ways to get to work favorably, simply trying to figure out ways to make money, to take care of themselves and their families, and we want to lighten that load for them."

https://wtop.com/dc/2026/01/kenyan-mcduffie-announces-run-for-mayor-tells-wtop-why-hes-entering-the-race/

He's got my vote.

What do you think Patricia Bollinger, Officer Terry Bennett, Aaron Marckell Williams, Mohamed Kamara, Jonathan Cabrera Mendez, and Olvin Torres Velasquez would think about a candidate who believes that the drivers who killed them - all of whom had accumulated thousands of dollars in unpaid camera fines - were being “preyed upon”?

Do you think they would vote for such a candidate?

Of course, their lives means nothing to you. All that matters is your sociopathic need to drive at reckless speeds around DC neighborhoods without having to bother setting up your navigation device to alert you to the very few locations where camera tickets are located and the inconvenience of ignoring the request to pay the resulting fines when they arrive in the mail.

How disgusting.

So the fines don’t work. We know this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looks like Kenyan McDuffie wants to make the explosion in traffic camera tickets an issue in the mayoral race.

"We also don’t want to continue to prey on folks with traffic tickets and enforcement in ways that communities have been plagued by increasing costs. We know that there are folks in this city simply trying to figure out ways to get to work favorably, simply trying to figure out ways to make money, to take care of themselves and their families, and we want to lighten that load for them."

https://wtop.com/dc/2026/01/kenyan-mcduffie-announces-run-for-mayor-tells-wtop-why-hes-entering-the-race/

He's got my vote.

What do you think Patricia Bollinger, Officer Terry Bennett, Aaron Marckell Williams, Mohamed Kamara, Jonathan Cabrera Mendez, and Olvin Torres Velasquez would think about a candidate who believes that the drivers who killed them - all of whom had accumulated thousands of dollars in unpaid camera fines - were being “preyed upon”?

Do you think they would vote for such a candidate?

Of course, their lives means nothing to you. All that matters is your sociopathic need to drive at reckless speeds around DC neighborhoods without having to bother setting up your navigation device to alert you to the very few locations where camera tickets are located and the inconvenience of ignoring the request to pay the resulting fines when they arrive in the mail.

How disgusting.

So the fines don’t work. We know this.

Who knows if the fines work? People are completely free not to pay them - they can renew their licenses, register their vehicles, and suffer no other adverse consequences (bar a negligible risk of being towed if they park on the same spor on a public street for days on end) even if they have thousands in unpaid fines. Between this and the complete absence of any traffic enforcement by DC MPD, reckless drivers have free rein over DC streets. Even if they kill someone, they can plead guilty to “failure to yield” and walk away with a $50 fine and a few hours of community service. But Kenyon is out there arguing that drivers are being “preyed on” by enforcement? WTF?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The speed cameras aren't located in areas with pedestrians. They're located on roads where you could conceivably go very fast, which aren't where pedestrians tend to be. For example, do you see pedestrians walking along the Potomac River Freeway? Or on DC-295? Or in the K Street tunnel? Come on folks, of course pedestrian fatalities don't decrease because of the cameras because the cameras aren't placed where the pedestrians are!

The K Street tunnel has crosswalks on either side and is used by cyclists etc.. The DC government could probably find better places for the 295 and Potomac River Freeway cameras, I agree, but those are only two of many hundreds of cameras across DC. Most are placed in residential areas.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The city has increased the number of traffic tickets it issues each year by 10X and yet the number of traffic deaths in this city is statistically unchanged from 20 years ago. Hard to see how one thing has affected the other. The main purpose seems to be generating revenue for the government.

So you're admitting that DC drivers don't care about laws and consequences.

Have you seen the guys on mopeds and e-bikes blowing stop signs at 40mph? Have you seen cyclists? They don't obey *any* traffic laws. I'd say drivers are the most law abiding people on the road.

Cyclists and e-bike riders are allowed by DC law to treat stop signs as yields. This has been the way for a few years now.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looks like Kenyan McDuffie wants to make the explosion in traffic camera tickets an issue in the mayoral race.

"We also don’t want to continue to prey on folks with traffic tickets and enforcement in ways that communities have been plagued by increasing costs. We know that there are folks in this city simply trying to figure out ways to get to work favorably, simply trying to figure out ways to make money, to take care of themselves and their families, and we want to lighten that load for them."

https://wtop.com/dc/2026/01/kenyan-mcduffie-announces-run-for-mayor-tells-wtop-why-hes-entering-the-race/

About a year and a half ago, a DC-licensed driver of a vehicle that had accumulated literally thousands of dollars in speeding tickets hit an elderly pedestrian as she walked across a crosswalk in my neighborhood.

The driver struck the elderly pedestrian with enough force to throw her about a hundred feet down the road, despite it being a 25mph zone.

Despite having thousands of dollars in unpaid fines, the driver had been able to re-register her vehicle, renew her license, and generally go about her business without any fear of suffering any consequences for her unpaid speeding tickets.

In just the past month, an MPD officer - Terry Bennett - and another pedestrian - Aaron Marckell Williams - were killed by drivers with extensive records of speeding tickets and another infractions.

For the complete lack of consequences enjoyed by sociopathic drivers in DC, we have council members like Kenyon McDuffie to thank.

But Kenyon Duffie is worried that folks are being preyed on by “traffic tickets and enforcement”.

Patricia Bollinger. Officer Terry Bennett. Aaron Marckell Williams. Mohamed Kamara. Jonathan Cabrera Mendez. Olvin Torres Velasquez.

All died at the hands of drivers that Kenyon McDuffie feels are being preyed upon on by “traffic tickets and enforcement”.

I can’t wait to ask him exactly what enforcement these drivers faced before they killed an elderly DC resident, a 26 year-old pedestrian from Southeast, an MPD officer who graduated from Ballou High School and Bucknell University, and three rideshare passengers. If anyone else has any insights, please feel free to share.

cameras are useless, except for the profits they generate for the camera companies.

Dozens of rigorous studies say otherwise, but why bother with them when we’ve got your vibes to go on.

Look at the evidence right in front of you. Over the past decade, DC increased ticketing by ten fold. We now issue more tickets per capita than probably anywhere else in the entire world. We issue so many tickets that AAA now warns drivers about DC (AAA calls the ticketing in DC "predatory"). And what happened? Traffic deaths did not decline.

An interesting observation, but the Congressional Research Service (CRS), National Highway Traffic Safety Association (NHTSA), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) are probably better informed and maybe a little bit more objective than you (or the AAA for that matter).

As noted in the CRS report on automated traffic enforcement (ATE) (https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/R/PDF/R46552/R46552.1.pdf),

"There have been many studies of speed camera programs; most have concluded that speed cameras reduced speeding and/or crashes in the vicinity of the cameras, and in some cases in the surrounding areas. Several reviews that looked at dozens of studies from around the world found that despite methodological issues in most studies, speed cameras reduce speeding and/or crashes. In its evidence-based guide to traffic safety measures, NHTSA gives ATE (including both speed cameras and red light cameras) the highest rating for effectiveness; the setting of speed limits themselves is the only other countermeasure rated as demonstrated to be effective in limiting speeding. Similarly, automated speed enforcement is the only speeding-related countermeasure included by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in its tool to enable states to model cost-effective interventions to reduce traffic deaths and injuries. The NTSB also considers automated speed enforcement to be “an effective countermeasure to reduce speeding-related crashes, fatalities, and injuries.”

Or would you rather we have more speeding-related crashes, fatalities, and injuries?

Ok, so when did the explosion in ticketing begin to reduce traffic deaths? Which year? Here's the number of speeding-driver deaths in DC from the past decade:

2024: 20
2023: 22
2022: 9
2021: 12
2020: 15
2019: 10
2018: 9
2017: 12
2016: 8
2015: 11
2014: 12
2013: 11

The evidence shows that these numbers would have been considerably higher in the complete absence of traffic cameras, but would have been considerably lower if drivers accruing fines were required to actually pay them and if DC MPD hadn’t all but completely given up on traffic enforcement from 2020 onwards.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Looks like Kenyan McDuffie wants to make the explosion in traffic camera tickets an issue in the mayoral race.

"We also don’t want to continue to prey on folks with traffic tickets and enforcement in ways that communities have been plagued by increasing costs. We know that there are folks in this city simply trying to figure out ways to get to work favorably, simply trying to figure out ways to make money, to take care of themselves and their families, and we want to lighten that load for them."

https://wtop.com/dc/2026/01/kenyan-mcduffie-announces-run-for-mayor-tells-wtop-why-hes-entering-the-race/

About a year and a half ago, a DC-licensed driver of a vehicle that had accumulated literally thousands of dollars in speeding tickets hit an elderly pedestrian as she walked across a crosswalk in my neighborhood.

The driver struck the elderly pedestrian with enough force to throw her about a hundred feet down the road, despite it being a 25mph zone.

Despite having thousands of dollars in unpaid fines, the driver had been able to re-register her vehicle, renew her license, and generally go about her business without any fear of suffering any consequences for her unpaid speeding tickets.

In just the past month, an MPD officer - Terry Bennett - and another pedestrian - Aaron Marckell Williams - were killed by drivers with extensive records of speeding tickets and another infractions.

For the complete lack of consequences enjoyed by sociopathic drivers in DC, we have council members like Kenyon McDuffie to thank.

But Kenyon Duffie is worried that folks are being preyed on by “traffic tickets and enforcement”.

Patricia Bollinger. Officer Terry Bennett. Aaron Marckell Williams. Mohamed Kamara. Jonathan Cabrera Mendez. Olvin Torres Velasquez.

All died at the hands of drivers that Kenyon McDuffie feels are being preyed upon on by “traffic tickets and enforcement”.

I can’t wait to ask him exactly what enforcement these drivers faced before they killed an elderly DC resident, a 26 year-old pedestrian from Southeast, an MPD officer who graduated from Ballou High School and Bucknell University, and three rideshare passengers. If anyone else has any insights, please feel free to share.

cameras are useless, except for the profits they generate for the camera companies.

Dozens of rigorous studies say otherwise, but why bother with them when we’ve got your vibes to go on.

Look at the evidence right in front of you. Over the past decade, DC increased ticketing by ten fold. We now issue more tickets per capita than probably anywhere else in the entire world. We issue so many tickets that AAA now warns drivers about DC (AAA calls the ticketing in DC "predatory"). And what happened? Traffic deaths did not decline.

An interesting observation, but the Congressional Research Service (CRS), National Highway Traffic Safety Association (NHTSA), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) are probably better informed and maybe a little bit more objective than you (or the AAA for that matter).

As noted in the CRS report on automated traffic enforcement (ATE) (https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/R/PDF/R46552/R46552.1.pdf),

"There have been many studies of speed camera programs; most have concluded that speed cameras reduced speeding and/or crashes in the vicinity of the cameras, and in some cases in the surrounding areas. Several reviews that looked at dozens of studies from around the world found that despite methodological issues in most studies, speed cameras reduce speeding and/or crashes. In its evidence-based guide to traffic safety measures, NHTSA gives ATE (including both speed cameras and red light cameras) the highest rating for effectiveness; the setting of speed limits themselves is the only other countermeasure rated as demonstrated to be effective in limiting speeding. Similarly, automated speed enforcement is the only speeding-related countermeasure included by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in its tool to enable states to model cost-effective interventions to reduce traffic deaths and injuries. The NTSB also considers automated speed enforcement to be “an effective countermeasure to reduce speeding-related crashes, fatalities, and injuries.”

Or would you rather we have more speeding-related crashes, fatalities, and injuries?

Ok, so when did the explosion in ticketing begin to reduce traffic deaths? Which year? Here's the number of speeding-driver deaths in DC from the past decade:

2024: 20
2023: 22
2022: 9
2021: 12
2020: 15
2019: 10
2018: 9
2017: 12
2016: 8
2015: 11
2014: 12
2013: 11

The evidence shows that these numbers would have been considerably higher in the complete absence of traffic cameras, but would have been considerably lower if drivers accruing fines were required to actually pay them and if DC MPD hadn’t all but completely given up on traffic enforcement from 2020 onwards.

Source? Because this sounds totally made up.