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Originally posted by arz
Lockheed Martin, the system supplier, was being given a percentage of the fine from each ticket their system issued. This gave LM an incentive to move the sensors embedded in the street such that motorists were given less and less time to enter and then exit the intersection before the camera was triggered.
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Geez...handing the keys to profit to a soulless corporation (especially one that is heavily invested in building things to enable people and property to be more efficiently killed and destroyed) and then expecting them not to stack the deck in their favor in every possible way is kind of Pollyanna, isn't it? What the hell were the city fathers thinking?
Kind of like waving a steak in front of a starving dog and expecting him not to eat it. I would guess that the system was priced lower if the city would grant LM that percentage deal...
Sounds to me like a good judicial decision was reached, here.