Hand held camera tickets

[MI101]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)?

 

[MI101]

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What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Toledo, OH

I'm on my phone so I'm keeping this short.

My concern isn't about the validity of my alleged offense (speeding).

More so, I'm curious if my situation is worthy of a lawsuit on the grounds of public safety. Toledo, Ohio is dispatching police officers to various overpasses and photographing speeders via a hand held laser/camera gun. The offender is not stopped and allowed to continue their actions in the presence of a police officer. This can continue for weeks before a ticket arrives in the mail.

In my case, I was issued a camera ticket by the same officer two days in a row. The first ticket arrived in the mail 10 days. The second took 3 weeks.

How is this improving safety? The police officer was sitting in his car. He could have pulled me over. Now your wondering how I know this... I changed my route. I now enter the freeway via the same overpass this officer is parked on.

 

[HighwayMan]

Lawsuit? Why? Because you got caught speeding twice?

How is that anyone's fault but yours?

 

[CdwJava]

You are certainly free to ask the Chief of Police and the City Council about how this is improving safety. But, getting caught speeding does not give you grounds for legal action.

 

[MI101]

Lawsuit? Why? Because you got caught speeding twice?

How is that anyone's fault but yours?

I can't put my question in more simplistic terms. Please re-read the post.

 

[Zigner]

I can't put my question in more simplistic terms. Please re-read the post.

Let me make the answer even more simple:

How is it anyone's fault but yours that you got two tickets for speeding?

 

[MI101]

You are certainly free to ask the Chief of Police and the City Council about how this is improving safety.

That's a great point. However, I'm sure this is a question they are well prepared for.

But, getting caught speeding does not give you grounds for legal action.

That's not the basis for my concern. I stated that in the third sentence.

Let me rephrase the question. What happens when someone blows by a cop doing 90 mph. The cop snaps a photo of the license plate and allows the speeder to continue on. No further action is taken. Then the speeder kills someone 10 miles up the road. Does the surviving family have any basis to seek legal action against the city and/or police department?

Now, why do we have to wait for someone to get seriously injured or killed first?

 

[Zigner]

That's a great point. However, I'm sure this is a question they are well prepared for.



That's not the basis for my concern. I stated that in the third sentence.

Let me rephrase the question. What happens when someone blows by a cop doing 90 mph. The cop snaps a photo of the license plate and allows the speeder to continue on. No further action is taken. Then the speeder kills someone 10 miles up the road. Does the surviving family have any basis to seek legal action against the city and/or police department?

Yours is a hypothetical question...we don't deal in hypotheticals here.

 

[MI101]

Let me make the answer even more simple:

How is it anyone's fault but yours that you got two tickets for speeding?

Re read my post...again

 

[Zigner]

If you don't like the way things are done, lobby your legislators for a change.

 

[MI101]

Yours is a hypothetical question...we don't deal in hypotheticals here.

Laws are created on hypothetical scenarios every day. (i.e. "If this saves just one life...").

 

[xylene]

Speed enforcement is a revenue generating punitive measure.

It has no requirement that it improve traffic safety or stop unsafe drivers.

What happens when someone blows by a cop doing 90 mph. The cop snaps a photo of the license plate and allows the speeder to continue on. No further action is taken. Then the speeder kills someone 10 miles up the road. Does the surviving family have any basis to seek legal action against the city and/or police department?

Nothing would happen to the city. Your concern for the city is complete disingenuous nonsense

You are the dangerous speeder in your hypothetical.

Now you've been punished.

 

[Zigner]

Laws are created on hypothetical scenarios every day. (i.e. "If this saves just one life...").

WE don't create laws. WE don't do hypotheticals

(Perhaps it's you who needs to read the responses again...)

 

[Zigner]

Speed enforcement is a revenue generating punitive measure.

It has no requirement that it improve traffic safety or stop unsafe drivers.



Nothing would happen to the city. Your concern for the city is complete disingenuous nonsense

You are the dangerous speeder in your hypothetical.

Now you've been punished.

Yeah, that.

 

[MI101]

If you don't like the way things are done, lobby your legislators for a change.

That's an excellent point and worth looking into further. Thank you.