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.
