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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The number almost doubled from the year before. DC now issues 8 times as many tickets each year as it did a decade ago. We issue twice as many tickets as Chicago, which is SO MUCH BIGGER! Pretty insane.

Hard to see what difference it's made to safety. Here's how many people the police say were killed each year in DC by speeding drivers:

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

Not really seeing a pattern. [/quote]

There aren't many cities in the entire world that have made more aggressive use of traffic cameras than DC. It's a legitimate question what, if anything, it has accomplished. [/quote]

Are there any other big cities that have zero traffic cops?  I think when people complain about traffic cameras in DC they forget that it's literally the only line of defense here.  It's not like a belt-and-suspenders approach where you can get a ticket for speeding/reckless driving/failure to yield from a real live cop, and also a ticket mailed to your house for rolling through a stop sign.

The cameras are all we've got, and they don't seem to slow the suburbanites down much anyway.[/quote]

It's not the only line of defense. DC has the biggest police force in the country, on a per capita basis. [/quote]

Zero traffic cops. Zero.[/quote]

That's a policy choice by our government that many of us think is pretty dumb. But regardless of whether the tickets come via cop or camera, DC is issuing millions more traffic tickets than other much larger cities. At this rate, it's only a matter of time before DC issues more tickets than NYC. [/quote]

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