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Reply to "City councilwoman wants traffic cameras to dole out points, along with hefty fines"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There's a lot of studies showing traffic cameras disproportionately hit black drivers. This would be doubling down on that. [/quote] Putting aside the fact that the camera cannot determine the ethnicity of the driver before deciding whether to take a picture of a speeding car, traffic statistics tell us that speed and other forms of bad driving disproportionately affect black communities and kill black people. Would it not be more racist to just ignore the problem? Are the pocketbooks of black drivers more important than the lives of black victims of bad driving?[/quote] I think there might be the issue of where the speed cameras are placed.....there was some case somewhere else where the speed cameras were suggested to be placed in locations that had disproportionately more black drivers. [/quote]
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