Reported the Chicago Tribune last week, "A fired executive of Chicago's beleaguered red light camera company
alleges in a lawsuit that Redflex Traffic Systems doled out bribes and
gifts at 'dozens of municipalities' in 13 other states and says he is
cooperating in an ongoing federal investigation." Former sales executive Aaron Rosenberg told the paper "that during his tenure Redflex 'bestowed gifts and bribes on
company officials in dozens of municipalities within, but not limited to
the following states: California, Washington, Arizona, New Mexico,
Texas, Colorado, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Florida, New Jersey,
Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia.'"
Among Texas municipalities contracting with Redflex are Austin, El Paso, Plano, Corpus Christi, Grand Prairie, North Richland Hills, Hurst, Port Lavaca, League City, Carrollton, Killeen, Mesquite, and Longview - or at least those are the ones Grits could uncover via a quick online search. This 2008 press release said Redflex operated cameras in "39 communities" across the state. It will be interesting to learn in which ones the former executive alleges the company "bestowed gifts and bribes" to local officials to secure their contracts. This simmering issue could quickly heat up once the fellow starts naming names to the feds.
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Add Round Rock to your list: http://www.roundrocktexas.gov/home/index.asp?page=10&recordid=2530&from=rss and http://www.roundrocktexas.gov/home/index.asp?page=12&ispostback=1&select_faq_by_faq_cat=92&select_faq_by_faq_dept=0#faq632
Rick Perry’s former chief of staff Ray Sullivan is a
former lobbyist of Redflex.
http://blog.chron.com/texaspolitics/2009/06/the-lobby-back-in-charge-of-perrys-office/
How about Cedar Park, Georgetown & Hutto?
07:18pm SURPRISE! Surprise
You may find this interesting. http://lubbockonline.com/stories/021508/loc_247128772.shtml
What about Amarillo. With the draconian cell phone law and the red light money farms it seems there could be local issues at hand in the panhandle.
This revelation has me thinking about all of the corruption being performed out in the open (in all 254 counties) yet, in the so-called - Name of the Law.
Regarding all past & present versions of the 'traffic' related money making scam (including the 100% guilty violators & the 100% innocent victims). It can get way worse and it will.
Enter - Motorized Video Cameras, already installed on top of very high polls (touted as News Traffic Cams) from 1 to 5 miles apart. We can look forward to the implementation of what can only be described as Mass Traffic Citation Issuance. Where the footage rolls in real-time and data processors collect and inspect relevant info and forward the segments of violators to the Citation Department. It wouldn't be very hard to mail out a thousand pre-filled out ticket post cards (or more) an hour in any major city. Just wait for it, it’s a coming, like it or not. Those that don't can speak up or hushh and pay up.
When Law Enforcement gets away with committing a crime (like Cite & Fine via the Post Office) based on bad/falsified intell – we can only blame (or thank) both the taxpayers in general and a certain set of voters for going along with it. As of today, haven't heard about any public protest about this or any related story. *illicit gifts / bribes or greased palms, anyway you look at it, the lights are still snapping and no one’s calling for their immediate shut-down in order to conduct audits and calibrations.
We get exactly what we deserve due to allowing shit like a 12 second green light with a 2 to 3 second yellow light. What's this got to with tea and egg rolls? I don't do any business (eat, gas, lotto nadda) whatsoever in cities with money-lights. Despite never getting a digi-ticket, boycotting criminal cities is my way of saying F-you. Throw in a bribery scandal involving crime prevention and reduction and Us looks a lot like Them.
Grits, in an effort to scoop the criminal turned snitch in order to reduce his sentence to come. Do you have any idea as to what departments the politicians would be in that would warrant their being bought off?
Would it involve greasing the palms and closets of entire City Councils, the Mayors and the Police Chiefs of any named recipients (cities)?
This could be big, very big and be reduced down to the largest mass plea bargain in history involving non-traditional criminals. The type that think the laws don't apply to them & theirs.
Wonder how much $$ ATS handed out. Maybe George Hittner would elaborate? He's a 'former scam cam' exec too.
Can't anybody here PLAY this game?
R.L. Huh?
Since we are in add a city mode,
Lil ol Balch Springs (AKA: Balch Springs, Mexico) has about 20 cams operating on tuned time. Ca-ching$$$
Civil Governance is EASY. You play it straight, ensure a true vote, balance the budget, limit the power of the bureaucracies....and don't take bribes. Everyone knows how it should work. It ain't rocket science. Instead...we get this corrupt scrum of cancerous bureaucracies.
I've heard ( after I received a camera ticket and paid it ) that the legality of the tickets in general are in question, and so if you do not pay the fine ( as I did ) that it only gets reported on your credit, and you would not be reported on your driver's license. If ( perhaps some one could confirm with a link ) this is so, we should just quit paying-- quit cooperating with unjust laws. That would put a world of people in a hurt real quick-- both the people who give and receive bribes.
Camera Tickets Can't Be Reported To Your Credit Either. Www.Trashyourticket.Com To Read The Law
Some other related interesting articles:
http://www.motorists.org/red-light-cameras/yellow-lights
http://www.vice.com/read/the-shady-municipal-business-of-traffic-cams
I got a right on red ticket in a lane where the right lane only is clearly marked but where it's nearly impossible to tell what light goes with which lane. There is no sign that says "no right on red" and no sign that says there is traffic cam enforcement within a hundred feet. There was no opportunity for hearing and the number given is in az. WTH round rock? Do I need to go to the city council?
I see people speed up to run these intersections and I have seen the cameras fire when they get caught. I'm happy and I always hope the fine wakes these fools up. Someone mentioned Draconian cell phone laws in Lubbock, well here is Draconian: If anyone hit me because they weren't paying attention to driving, or maybe had a drink, they will wish they had gone to confession that morning. I B serious. You people who do everything but drive while you're rolling down the road, will get treated as an attempted murderer by me if you hit me. Yak all you want, but I'll pull your arms off like they were wings on a fly.
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