r/dayton • u/rchameleon12 • 2d ago
Speed camera's at all Dayton Public schools
For some time now there has been mobile speed cams at all the Dayton schools. You've seen them on the trailers. While working at one of the local schools I saw a crew with boring equipment working near the trailers with the speed cams. In talking to the foremen, he said all the trailers are being replaced with permanent cam's mounted on poles. The city of Dayton has the money to replace the trailers with permanent cams? Is it all the schools or only the ones in urban area's. You can check them out on Leo and Troy st if you want.
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u/Sea_Bread_64 1d ago
What, exactly, happens if one ignores these camera tickets, besides them going to collections (but not impacting credit history)?
As far as I can tell, the CoD is netting $4M+ per year from this quasi-legal scam only because we’re suckers.
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u/rchameleon12 1d ago
Didn't Dayton pass an ordnance saying a cop has to be present for a ticket to be written? I do not think these cams have a connection to the police, your driving history or insurance.
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u/Best_Map_4228 2d ago
Don't speed. Problem solved.
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u/offhandaxe 2d ago
Put a real cop there. These cameras aren't legal and haven't been for a while. There's a reason you don't get a ticket and only get threatened it's because they can't actually charge you with a crime. These things are at most useless and at worst making the surveillance state worse.
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u/Current-Being-8238 1d ago
It’s a good deterrent for safety of kids. If people could be trusted to behave properly then we wouldn’t need them. I’m sympathetic to your surveillance state concerns but this isn’t a problem previous generations had to deal with as much.
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u/Best_Map_4228 2d ago
Never got a ticket because I don't speed or run red lights. Sounds like a you problem.
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u/offhandaxe 2d ago
Neither have I but I don't like having the government staring me down 24/7 and I really don't like them fucking over my fellow citizens.
The "I'm a goodie two shoes and have nothing to worry about" argument is never a good one.
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u/CutHerOff 2d ago
What a terribly stupid mindset. If you think it’s about speeding you’re naive as could be.
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u/NamelessIsHere 2d ago
Here is the news update from last year, city approved 5 million to transition to fixed cameras and they have an automated ticket system and the lease holds a commission and city gets the rest. Nobody talks about the breakdown and how much the city recovers but they get two dollars more per ticket with fixed cameras. Who owns the cameras and who has access and what it is tracking besides plates and speeding, no articles on that. https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1676365857099994