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They call me ... Sarcasmo
http://www.mddriversalliance.org/2012/09/the-long-difficult-road-to-imperfect.html
I wonder where the 10% funding increase he wants for the SMCSO will be coming from? But wait! Traffic cameras are an enforcement tool, not revenue generators.
Can you say "Conflict of interest"? I knew that you could.
John O'Connor testified on Behalf of Optotraffic that photos cannot be used to show speed: "We do not use photos that are taken at two independent times to estimate speed. Why? Because it's inaccurate. You can't do it." and "The photo is actually just secondary evidence that the vehicle was there and it was in motion, that it was there at the time of the occurrence." [ O'Connor has identified himself as "Director of the Law Institute of Maryland" in his linkedin page... an organization which we could find no information for online other than a domain name registration which was opened on September 2011 and which recently expired. He lists himself as formerly the "Program Manager Automated Speed Enforcement Program Seat Pleasant Police Department", a town whose speed cameras are run by Optotraffic. That linkedin page also references the Optotraffic website (snapshot from 9/21/2012). O'Connor reportedly gave similar testimony to this effect on Optotraffic's behalf at numerous hearings.]
This testimony seems to conflict with Optotraffic's own technical document, which states that their equipment is supposed to be able to verify speed: “While the primary evidence for issuing a speeding citation is the calibrated Lane Sensor, the two photos provide the secondary evidence of speeding that is presented to the citation recipient.” and “Since a stationary object is present along with the vehicle, a photographic method also determines speed, guaranteeing fairness”.
I wonder where the 10% funding increase he wants for the SMCSO will be coming from? But wait! Traffic cameras are an enforcement tool, not revenue generators.
Can you say "Conflict of interest"? I knew that you could.