Alleged Speed Camera Murderer Fit To Stand Trial

Remember when, not so long ago, I was talking about the guy who killed a speed camera operator while he sat in his operator van out in Phoenix?  Well, as it turns out, there's an update in that trial. The sixty nine year old man, Thomas Patrick Destories by name, was found competent to stand trial ...

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Arizona Sheriff Says Red Light Cams Don’t Work

But there's a grieving father who begs to differ. So the current sheriff of Pinal County in Arizona, a guy with the thoroughly unlikely name of Paul Babeu, believes that red light cameras don't actually save any lives.  He says: “Guess what? They (accidents) have decreased all across America and the majority of America doesn't use photo ...

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Maybe This Is Why They Don’t Like Speed Cameras In Phoenix

I may not like speed cameras, I may want them gone pretty much everywhere I hear about them, I may think they do absolutely no good for anybody but desperate state budgets, but even I think this is going way too far. In Arizona, apparently, someone took potshots at a van containing a speed camera and ...

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Arizona Speed Camera Troubles Crop Up

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 ...

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Speed Cameras Gone In Arizona In 2010?

Apparently, in Arizona, people have been taking a rather interesting step to try and get speed cameras thrown out of the state--they're not paying the tickets. And this is leading Arizonan officials to start wondering if they shouldn't just can the entire system. See, there's a whole lot of whammies working against the Arizonan system of red ...

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Arizona Bans Speed Cameras

The Arizona House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee voted 5 to 2 to ban photo speed enforcement on Arizona highways. The digital camera surveillance system has been controversial, with some Arizona residents insisting the cameras keep the highways safer and others seeing the cameras as a distraction and a danger. “This was done in the name ...

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