Remember how we were talking about Arizona, and the troubles they’ve been having with speed cameras? How the governor was looking to ditch them entirely because no one pays the tickets anyway?

Well, it seems that the company BEHIND the speed cameras, who would be fairly likely to have some interest in the operation, is getting together a petition to change the way the tickets are issued…so that more of them will get paid.  Dig the word from the Associated Press:

The petition, filed with the Arizona Supreme Court on Jan. 8, does not mention the company — Scottsdale-based Redflex — or Quarles & Brady, the law firm Redflex paid to write the document. It only mentions John Wintersteen, a retired police chief for Paradise Valley, as the petitioner and is written under his name in the first person.  In response to a telephone call inquiring about the petition, Wintersteen told the AP that he supported changing a rule so violators could be served through first-class mail rather than in person, so he agreed to work with Redflex on the document.

So did the company that installs cameras find some retired cop and use him as a straw man to write a petition by which more tickets would be paid?  Does this sound like a cash grab to anyone else?  Strictly from an opinion standpoint, it sure does to me.

Well, it doesn’t seem like this move would help anyway–at last report, the governor still wants the program shut down.  She still “doesn’t like it”.

Good enough.

Related posts:

1. Speed Cameras Gone In Arizona In 2010?
2. Australia Having Speed Camera Troubles Too
3. Arizona Bans Speed Cameras
4. A Speed Camera Retrospective, With Help From The Washington Post
5. Speed Camera Guerilla Fights Back With Masks