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Originally Posted by andyl
Proven statistics? Yes there are. I've posted a link on another thread and I'm not about to dig it out again. Independent report says 100 lives saved due to introduction of Gatsos.
point 2. So what is your argument about resources? Gatsos take resources away from policing (NB, they're paid for by local authorities)? Or Gatsos are unjustified because they generate revenue? Whar goes, you decide.
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I have also read "statistics" that suggest otherwise.
My argument about resources actually focuses more on the fact that (as previously posted) the Police seem to think it's a great idea to set up mobile camera vans within a couple of hundred metres of GATSOs, since "people slow down for the cameras, but this way they get caught anyway". Local authorities don't pay for trained Policemen to sit in vans taking pictures.
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Originally Posted by ian@huth
We live in a land that has laws. Whatever we think of the laws is irrelevant. If we don't like them we use our democratic right to vote for people who we think may help to change the laws. Until a law is changed we have to abide by it or face the consequences. A gatso camera could be there for any number of reasons, as a road safety measure or as a fund raiser. It doesn't matter at all what the reason for it being there is and if it raises funds then we should be thankful that it is paying for itself.
The situation is quite simple. The law states that driving at a speed greater than the speed limit on the road is an offence. If you commit that offence then you cannot object to the punishment that the offence carries. If you stay within the speed limit you abide by the law and are not punished. It doesn't matter how many gatsos are on the roads or the reason they were put there because you are not affected by them if you stay within the law.
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Ian,
Not denying anything that you have said. I am griping (if that's the word) about the way that certain laws (eg speeding) is more vigorously enforced and followed up than other "more serious" crimes (eg rape, burglary).