I'm sitting here one mile from the Prince Georges County line (PG County as we locals call it) and it needs to scrounge every dollar of revenue to offset their social money drain, lousy schools, and latent crime problem. If the cameras were about "public safety" they would install them to watch neighborhoods where trouble makers make trouble, not watching drivers primarily going to their jobs.

What a great way to spend good tax dollars!!

don't want to get caught by the camera? don't speed.

I wish my town would install traffic cameras at many of the dangerous intersections. If you don't run lights, make illegal turns, etc than why would you care if the cameras are there. Those thugs that steal equipment are stealing from the taxpayer and this an act of cowardice and not an act of defiance. This is not a scio-economis issue, this is a crimonal act to steal. What is wrong with all these posters, the police our not the enemy, the enemy is the hate that people have in their hearts that translates to violence.

Yeah but what is watching the cameras that are watching the cameras? See, I'm always thinkin'

East European communist countries had spies watching their spies...just sayin...

Just goes to show you can't expect intelligence from public servants, especially police!

Just love all the police bashing...My buddy is a county sheriff down there and last time was down he kept slowing down in areas...Said they got these stupid autocamera speed traps...They look like large mailboxes and some like small power switcher that are next to traffic lights...These aren't on major freeways/interstates but on regular roads you take to say grocery stores and to take kids to school...so most these roads 45mph mostly 35mph so at most people maybe drive 2-3 mph more than the speed limit....Not like interstate where you maybe driving 10-15mph more than 55/65 speed limits. So not like major crazy driving going to be caught but those maybe in little extra rush to get to work going 6 mph over....
I love how on this site the repubtards start blaming demo's and obama on everything...like a broken record...I'm independent....gets tiring, boring, may even turn me off to your candidates since you sound like mindless drones.
FYI...this is a highly republican county....seems like the repugs like all that big brother stuff...you know camera speedtraps, wire tapping Americans, warrantless searching of phone records....but hey you'll get lower taxes and good old trickle down economics...I'm really going to hate voting for Romney sigh...

Anyway this is big rebug county and these were put in by the county admins...don't blame the police/sherrifs sh ite runs down hill and they are the low men/women on the totem pole..But his is all about the profit not public safety...Time and time again studies have shown if you want to make local roadways safer increase the time by 2 seconds the yellow light at stop lights...This gives most drivers time to react and stop or get through the light...And what people above said have Visable Marked Police care presence...slows people down all the time or at least makes them check their speed.

Spy vs. Spy. I love that cartoon.

It was proven, that by increasing the "Yellow" time by one second, accident rates in that intersection decreased by 80%.

Not about money my @$$!

There's been no recent massive shift in roads becoming less safe; highway fatalities are not getting higher. There has been an economic downturn affecting local government's ability to steal, err find "revenue streams".

More power to the people and I hope they know now to wear ski masks when they take out the cameras. Down with Big Brother!

It's amusing ... and sad ... to see all these people screaming about how the cameras are for generating money and how only a police officer should be able to give a ticket.

These same people scream " speed trap " when they DO get a ticket from a live police officer.

How about if we pass a law giving them the option of paying the fine or spending a 24 hour day in jail for every $50 of the fine?

Then they can't say it was all about raising money.

Of course there not wanting to make money off us, the police
departments are only there to protect and serve. I have always trusted the
police, they are always truthful, and I regard them with the highest respect.
HA HA HA HA , Not!!!

who in the hell is paying for all this......me & you.....that"s who !!

you know it's gettin' bad when you have to watch the watcher. can't even trust the cameras to do the right thing.

Ok, then doing it in person all covered, use high powered pellet guns from a distance. Good luck seeing that on camera.

So, what we should do to eliminate the problem is NOT destroy the cameras, but draw a bead on those who INSTALL the cameras. When you see one going up, pull out your illegal weapon, and shoot those involved. When enough of them die, they'll stop doing that s**t.......

OK great, So I wonder what their next move will be when the Camera's set up to watch the Camera's get destroyed also?????????????? How much more public money did they wastefully spend for the Camera's to watch the $30,000.00 Camera's??? I hope it wasn't close to another $30.000.00 because if it is, It might have been better spent by combining all that money to begin with, hired another Police Officer to simply camp out somewhere near the vandalized camera's to catch the people responsibility.

Mr Orwell is no doubt grinning from ear to ear.

Big brother just wants to keep the sheeple safe from the wolves. Well, you can't fleece dead sheeple. Can you?

As a former OTR truck driver I have seen nearly every blatant infraction of traffic laws. You know what?

No amount of police presence, camera presence or any other presence is going to keep you safe when you're running around in a one to two ton machine with thousands of other people doing the same thing. Most of which are distracted from the task at hand. Distracted by cell phones, radios, make up, blow jobs, kids, newspapers, breakfast lunch and dinner, getting dressed for work, billboards, sunshine, rain, snow etc etc.

You want safety? Lock yourself in the basement and never leave it.

Wouldn't that put a kink in big brother's plan to fleece the masses?

There have been instances where it was proven the yellow light time was actually SHORTENED to increase revenue from these cameras.
Even L.A. has decided to discontinue them because they found the revenue projections were grossly inflated by the company that provided them.

So, instead of doing the right thing (removing the speed trap cameras), you spend MORE money to buy cameras to watch the cameras.

You logic is flawed. Your ORIGINAL logic is flawed too -- you can't put up speed trap cameras like that. Judges have been throwing out the speed trap camera tickets for years. What is the point of continuing to irritate the public and waste the court's time?

TAKE THE SPEED TRAP CAMERAS DOWN!

This is atrocious! TOO MANY CAMERAS EVERYWHERE! I especially hate the ones that are there to cost me money!

The next time I drive through Maryland I will probably get a warm fuzzy feeling knowing that they care about my safety. It's nice to know that money isn't a factor and hasn't corrupted the Great State of Maryland.

Cameras cost 30 ~ 100K. That's rediculous. The tax payers are getting ripped off again. There is no way cameras cost that much, if they did no one in private business could afford them. Only a government which can extort whatever money it wants from it's citizens can afford that. Look's like I need to start a business selling something to our corrupt government.

Haven't most states outlaws those things anyway?

Y a they rather give a two year old a $50.00 ticket for pissing in the street....In Philly an you tell me it's not for profit: BS