Mesa Keeping Revenue Generating Traffic Cameras!

The City of Mesa will be keeping Traffic Cameras for another two years. In a vote the Mesa City Council took this week, they voted to keep them. With a change of heart, Alex Finter who has been a critic in the past of these cameras is now calling for them to stay.  He is even going so far as to say Mesa has a chance to make this a model program for the state and country to follow.

The program was implemented in 2006 after a Rhode Junior High student was killed in 2005 on Baseline Road. Police Commander Bill Peters say that the cameras have reduced traffic accidents at one intersection from 694 in 2005 to 370 in 2010. The police officer can't say for sure that the cameras have been the only reason for the decrease in accidents.

Are traffic cameras worth giving up your constitutional right and for what a little safety? The Police and the Mesa City Council want you to think so. Rights once given up are hard to take back.

Courts have started getting wise and so too is the public when it comes to Red Light Cameras, Speed Cameras and the other so called traffic safety cameras and rights. In most cases they are a big money scam for city's and most of the money doesn't go to city, to goes to the vendor.


A judge in California ruled that tickets by cameras violates a persons right to confront their accuser. The judge determined that the images evidence generated by these digital traffic cameras violated the accused rights to confront the evidence of the accuser, and cited the Supreme Court’s Melendez-Diaz decision as precedent. The defendant has a right to confront his accuser, under the Confrontation Clause of the 6th Amendment of the US Constitution.

Interesting to note that American Traffic Solutions, ATS is the same company that operates the traffic cameras in Mesa.

We need to bring back personal responsibility to the traffic laws, you break the law you pay the price. Although it may seem harsh, I'm not willing to give up my constitutionally protected rights for those of another no matter what or how it is called.