We Saw That alerts us to
this story:In a special election yesterday, a Southern Louisiana city of 22,000 overwhelmingly rejected photo enforcement. Asked, "Shall Ordinance No. 873, M-C Series adopting automated speed enforcement for the City of Sulphur, Louisiana, be repealed?" eighty-six percent of voters said "Yes." After results are certified on April 13, the Australian speed camera vendor Redflex Traffic Systems will be sent packing.
Sulphur's ballot box totals contrast sharply with public opinion survey results published by traffic camera vendor American Traffic Solutions (ATS).
Sulphur voted almost 6 to 1 to remove the automated speed enforcement cameras.
As I've
been saying for
over a year, there is hidden political power in this traffic camera issue. Hardly anyone likes the damn things, and a great many people hate them.
Again, I implore all insurgent and outsider political candidates to heavily exploit this issue. Own it! This is one of those kinds of issues that channels frustration into a surprising groundswell of support on election day. Non-establishment candidates should
make use of it. I'm serious! Make hay out of the incredible efficiency of the traffic cameras compared to the lackluster inefficiency of the crime cameras:
cops not cameras! working traffic lights not cameras!I'm not even going to discuss all the related
New Orleans political drama that's coming to a head, but it doesn't take a political genius to see that expensive new technological monitoring systems may have a bit of a stigma attached to them in the coming weeks and months. I promise you, this is one of those issues that taps into a deep vein of political motivation throughout a
very broad swath of the voting public. Quite simply, most people don't like to feel monitored and don't like to feel cheated. Even many of the so-called New Orleanians who want the French Quarter to be more "Disney-like" don't want to feel like cameras are watching their every step on the street, and their every turn on the road. Combine those feelings with the idea that rejecting the cameras (in some sense) is a rejection of Nagin and Meffert... I mean, this isn't rocket surgery.
Who will take this issue, this political gift, and find a way to run with it?
Labels: Elections and Campaigns, Meffert, Nagin
6 Comments:
fyi, the entire state of Mississippi has outlawed the traffic cameras.
What you don't realize is that the traffic cameras are on a Tropos wireless mesh system operated by NetMethods. In other words Meffert has a hand in this technology too.
who though wans to reject the $$ that will come in from these cameras. I dont like the idea of cameras and monitoring; its all too 1984 for me but I dont think that we will be able to stop its arrival and those who do will be like King Canute. I think eventually it will be like the 55 MPH speed limit do it or get no federal monies for this program or that program. Right now they have them in central DC and they are "turned on" for big events. It cant be long before they are on all the time. Good luck stopping the tide.
Why is it the Traffic Cameras work and the Crime Cameras don't?
I would do it... if I had any clue how to raise funds ;)
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