"Its about safety" my ass. If it was about safety they would take away licenses of abusers who routinely break traffic laws. But as long as you pay the fines, no problem, heres your license. They wouldnt allow idiots with multiple DUI's back on the road if it was about safety.They wouldnt be operating speed traps and demanding quotas if it was about safety.

They need to lose all these safety rules. I dont want theses laws, and I dont want the government forcing their safety crap on me, or on anyone else. I still own a car without seatbelts, so they cant force that BS on me either.

just when you thought cameras are safe to do what they are needed to do then come vandalizing.....good idea to put other camera in that area to hopefully find who doing it but wouldnt advertise that they are doing this and people who possibly doing this dont know about the extra camera's......more later world and hopefully they find the criminals......

Attacks on U.S. embassies were planned, coordinated, and about the release of the blind sheik. Don't let anti-american media like NBC try to convince you it was in response to a low budget film created one year ago.

Hmm, A country of the people and for the people apparently doesn't trust the people - I agree with FeO2's post. This is a disturbing trend and my friends, we have not yet begun to see the lengths that our government is going to take to control us - it is coming unless we do something about it. This whole economic collapse was orchestrated and the actions by the fed are destroying our currency - there is a plan and it is an ugly plan

Could the police Dept specify what kind of cameras are used and who supplies them? for $100,000 a pop I'd gladly go and keep an eye on the traffick cams.

What are they made of gold? What is it that makes them so expensive?

Our founding fathers would be appalled by the way our country is progressing. Destroying these cameras IMO comes under the heading of civil disobedience. These devices are ALL about profit and control!

Cheaper to put a locator chip in everybody.

who owns this companys that put up the cameras, they are making a kiliing with our money find out who is behind this and who is connected with it

Extend the yellow light 5 seconds so people can safely stop before the red light. That's the problem, the interval is too short and creates situations where the driver has to speed up to beat the light or slam on the breaks at the last second. I've long suspected as camera's go in, the yellow light interval is shortened. It should be law to increase the yellow light interval a few seconds

A Canon 1DX, the highest priced still camera Canon makes, costs $6,799. The most expensive non-zoom lens Canon sells is the 200mm f2, which costs $5,299. A 64gb CF card costs about $350. Add those together and you've spent $12,448 for one of the best still cameras money can buy unless you go to medium format.

I highly doubt that they're installing Hasselblad's in those speed cameras, so what's the rest of the 17,552-87,552 being spent on??

My vote for the perfect article.

And pretty soon they will be putting up cameras to watch the cameras that is watching the cops who are watching the cameras who are watching the people. And after that, they will be putting up cameras to watch the sargeant who is watching the cameras who is watching the cops who are watching the cameras that are watching the cameras that will be watching the people. And after that, they will be putting up cameras to watch those cameras that are watching the cameras that is watching the sargeant who is watching the cameras who are watching the cameras that are in place to watch the cops who are watching the cameras that has been placed to watch the cameras that are watching the other cameras that are watching those cameras that are focuse on watching the people....To be continued...What a freaking waste of public tax dollars.

Perpetual cameras, now you need a camera to watch the camera to watch the camera to watch the camera and so on.

Now we gotta hire people to watch the camera's. Then your going to need people to watch the people to watch the people that watch the camera's.Your going to go broke cause of camera's.

Do yourselves and the tax payers a favor! get rid of the camera's.............

Big brother needs to just piss off.

So when do they install the cameras to watch the cameras that are watching the cameras, eh? Be smarter just to electrify the housings of the original cameras. In the morning when you find a couple fried a_holes laying in the middle of the road you'll have caught your culprits as well as discourage other idiots to try disabling them! (And save the taxpayers lots of $$$ to boot)

Cameras aren't going over very well in Iowa. They say safety yet the only thing the local paper reports is the revenue generated. Not to mention that the company that supports the cameras is out of state so the money isn't staying local to help our local economy.

Cameras should be aimed at the people that decided to spend 30 - 100K each on the original cameras, and a feed run to air on the local government channel. The tax payers have a right to know who is spending their tax dollars so carelessly.

Let's see, 1 billion bucks for new face recognition cameras when I carry a ID, and they say I don't look like my picture! Who sold this system, I want him to sell for my business!Save that money, it might help catch 10 thiefs = 100 million each - that probably stole less than10,000 = 100,000. Tell me who is pocketing the extra change? Politicians stealing from all of us in the name of crime prevention. who's watching the watchers?

The company that manufacturers and maintains the speed cameras is from Australia and gets half of the fines. So, it is about the money.

People are against cameras because a “Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words.” And they do not like it that they were caught breaking the law.

I also know several cities are taking camera’s down because of the loss of revenue from tickets. Seems everyone is aware of the cameras and therefore tend to obey the law. Good for safety, but not for the cities income. Seems the cities would rather send a bunch of police cars, ambulances and fire tucks to the scene of an accident that could have otherwise have been prevented.

So much for people saying they want safer driving conditions as long as it does not apply to them.

There would be no camera issue if everyone obeyed the law. But we all know that is not the American way, your only guilty if caught.

We don't need cameras to watch us. We really don't need more police to watch us with guns strapped on and high speed vehicles to plow through downtown every time a rabbit farts on a surveillance camera. We need for our jobs to pay a decent wage so that no one feels the need to break the law repeatedly. It's not the drivers or the robbers, it's what drove them to it.

Who is watching the camera that is watching the camera?

How in hell can a camera cost $100,000 ? Somebody's cheating someone

Maybe we should just get a group of people to do just that. Shoot the cameras that watch the cameras that see the cameras that watch the camers that that that.. Why waste all the money on cameras and on cops salaries... Why not balance the budget removing those salaries.. It's obvious that if you have the cameras then we shouldn't need that many officers on the force. After all crime has gone down drastically, Traffic accidents have gone down very drastically and traffic death have gone down very much comparingly.. and we have so many more new drivers per year and better safety equipted vehicles that we pay much more for them also. How much do we have to pay to travel for free in this country... didn't that sound awkward.. Pay to travel freely.. well it's the fact. And insurances and tolls and high gas prices...and we still have cops handing out fines and fines are also up in prices...oh well.. welcome to freedom.

I will be glad to set up a couple of cameras in Maryland that checks for the cop cars only if speeding, and every one will then be fired and we save 100,000 K each a year, now that is real savings, I am sure they will always obey the law then right?, unlike this entire country's police---If a cop without flashing lights in northern EU is officially caught speeding he gets fired, and most of those have 4-7 years education!

I can build each one for about 1000 Dollars in SS enclosure, Then we do however need more for setting up on back roads that the police would then "check the engine out on their cars"---I have actually overheard such conversation in Tex once at a gas station and about 5 minutes later 2 police cars passed me going about 120 MPH !--And when they cash guess who pays for their children?

I have had enough of all this harassment!--Why do you accept it, are you actually afraid of these, and they work for us--good thing they do not work in/for my company! I thought we have so much Freedom here--I guess that is only for the Brawneys!

Something that goes into the ODB2 plug and saves speed data to a secure off-site backup data repository controlled by Internal Affairs would be nice. Or even wire something into the PCM...

As for cameras, just wire up some claymores. You can use shrapnel, pepper spray or battery acid to defend your cameras.