The red-light cameras strategically positioned around KC seem to be working their magic of making dollars disappear from disobedient drivers' wallets.
They're also making drivers think twice about flooring it through intersections.
The Kansas City Star reports today that the number of tickets issued at 39th and Southwest Trafficway has dropped 80 percent since the cameras were flipped on four months ago. But tickets are on the rise at other intersections: 2,300 tickets were issued at nine intersections. The cameras switched on earlier this month produced 531 tickets in just nine days.
With dollar signs in their eyes, city leaders want to add 10 more cameras, and that's a problem for the police, who are "struggling to keep up."
Here's what the Star says:
Officers working in shifts review about 400 alleged violations each day. With the new cameras, the number is expected to increase to 600 a day, or 4,200 a week, police said.More money, more problems.
Keeping up with the ever-growing queue will cost about $158,000 a year, police said.
Police officials said Tuesday they were seeking to get reimbursed for the extra work.
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What you have here is "robocop"!!! What ever happened to having a LIVE cop enforce the law??? Oh, they are too busy using their RADAR guns on the highways making money to be bothered waiting at traffic lights to make money! Almost like the "drunk checkpoints".... why
SEE a drunk and nail him.. we'll just line up EVERY passing car... check for Booze breath.And EVERY OTHER THING we can see/find!!! JACKPOT!! Protect and serve... or search and fleece???? shame what the police have become.... revenue agents.
I have seen so many people crank on their gas or slam on their brakes trying to avoid these things.
Dangerous, IMO.
it may cost them $158,000 a year but they well gain probably over $100 per ticket (thats $30,000 A DAY! if 3/4 are accurate) and people well stop running through red lights so its worth it.
KCMO needs to start cracking down on crime big time or were gonna have a mini compton in the future especially with the youth going to some of the nations worst schools this is where education plays a role in society
Officers working in shifts review about 400 alleged violations each day
400 a day would be 50 per hour, or less than one a minute. How freaking long does it take to look at a couple of pictures and decide whether or not it's an infraction?
I'm not seeing where it would take more than one cop to handle this - maybe two IF the workload goes to 600 a day as expected.
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