More Red Light Camera Follies (Chicago Edition)

Chicago installed red light cameras in 2007. As always, accidents promptly increased, just as they have everywhere else they’ve been installed.

It’s tempting to wonder when officials will figure out that red light cameras harm more than they help, but it would be false. Officials know, they just don’t care. It’s not about saving lives, it’s about making money.

By Lawrence Person

Lawrence Person is a political commentator and science fiction writer living in Austin, Texas. His political work has appeared in National Review, Reason, The Freeman, Liberty and The World & I. His SF has appeared in Asimov's, Analog, F&SF, Postscripts, Jim Baen's Universe, Fear, and several anthologies. He owns such a large library (mostly science fiction first editions) he had to buy a two-story house to put it in, and then adopted a golden retriever to drag him out of his house on a regular basis.

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