Say Cheese, The Photo Radar Might Be Taking Your Picture!
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Law enforcements ability to write traffic tickets has limitations. For one, a law enforcement official can only pull over and write one citation at a time. The governments found this to be too time consuming and it cost too much money.
So now technology has developed to the point where different ways have been cleverly created to give out tickets quicker and less expensively.
So the government in its great 'wisdom' decided it wasn't collecting enough money with the old system.
There are just too many factors: First, they have to hire the cop to pull you over. This also means the use of a police vehicle which also costs money. Next, the traffic stop itself is a dangerous situation for the officer and potentially other drivers or pedestrians. Third, after it's all said and done, the driver may still end up driving away without a ticket (if the officer decides to just give a warning).
Lastly, during the time it takes to administer a traffic stop about a dozen other cars go by speeding... more money down the drain! But that was then, this is now!
So the photo radar was introduced to take handing out tickets to a whole new level. They can do the job of many officers.
With photo radar also known as traffic cameras, speeding tickets are simply mailed to the offender. Talk about customer service!
Photo radar has been effective for municipalities. It has saved tremendous amounts of time and resources of police departments. It maximizes resources available for other enforcement, conviction rates went up, and also your insurance premiums.
Currently only 20 states or so use the photo radar for speeding detection, but it is on the rise.
The photo radar is such a money maker that its popularity is growing fast.
More and more cities across the nation are beginning to catch on to the money making potential that photo radar has. Its relative simplicity and monetary benefits makes photo radar a good choice for many cities.
Cash strapped cities are finding out that when they install photo radar it gives them immediate money generation.
Looking at it from the municipalities' point of view it makes perfect sense. One photo radar can do the work of what would normally take a small army of real officers.
How does it work? Photo radar, as the name suggests, is a combination of a camera coupled with a radar gun. The two work together. The radar gun is preprogrammed to function at a particular speed.
For example, if a certain street's speed limit is 25 mph, the radar gun might be set to activate when any vehicle travels over 30 mph.
When this happens, the radar gun will instantly trigger the camera to take a picture of the entire vehicle (sometimes it's just the back, other times its the back and front of the vehicle) to get the license plate information. The picture is electronically filed away and the process is carried on throughout the day and night. Hundreds of individuals will have their picture taken - courtesy of Big Brother.
When the database of the photo radar is accessed at a later time, they photos will be examined inaccurancies.
The first thing they will look for is the license plate. If it is blurry or simply unclear, the picture will be disposed of and the next one will be examined.
Once the legible pictures from the photo radar have been determined and the license plate numbers ran through the bureau of motor vehicles database, if the car is registered to say, a female, and there is a female driving the vehicle, BINGO, a speeding ticket will be on its way to the registered owners address.
This process is repeated until all the pictures from the photo radar have been gone through, until the next batch arrives. Please let this article be a warning for you to look out for photo radar enforcement!
Article Source: Articlelogy.com
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