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Can speed cameras make streets safer? Quasi-experimental evidence from New York City (www.pnas.org)

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[–] who@feddit.org 3 points 3 months ago

The only purpose of law enforcement traffic cameras is to generate revenue.

More accurately, it's to extract money from people.

Revenue "generation" normally comes from providing some kind of value to people willing to pay for it. What they're doing here is more like automated extortion.