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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

I assume you are talking about areas east of the river. I've been through the list of cameras (which is on the DDOT website) and the share of cameras in Wards 7 and 8 is less than those wards' share of the city's population. And the share is much less than Wards 7 and 8's share of fatal accidents in the city. If anything one could argue that it is racist to not have more cameras where black people are being killed by bad driving.[/quote]

No, I was thinking of those articles about NYC, actually, like this:  https://www.wnyc.org/story/speed-cameras-may-not-be-racist-road-design/

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