Throw your traffic-camera speeding tickets in the trashcan!

How the system worksLaw enforcement agencies have neither the recources nor the capabilites to produce such technologies as these red light cameras subsequently they also lack the ability to maintain them, and also to operate them and view their results. All of this is headed by the company they contract with. Many of these aren't even based in the US. There are 3 main US providers of traffic lights: American Traffic Solutions, Redflex traffic systems, and Affiliated Computer Services. These providers have no legal authority and yet they are the ones who send out these traffic signals. They collect revenue of up to 87 percent of the ticket cost and together gross over several billion dollars from the US alone. After some employee gets the report they send it to the address of the licence plate, however this is a shifty scheme, and it turns out you simply do not have to pay. It is possible that you proverbially get struck by lighting and they send you a warrant to attend court, but even if this happens you are covered, and even if you aren't covered, you win in court and save somewhere around 500 dollars.Reasons you don't repond to these ticketsMy opponent's own quote"It’s commonly believed signing the ticket is an admission of guilt, but this is false. It’s simply a confirmation that you received it" This only proves my point. If you simply throw the ticket away how will the government know you recieved it? They won't and therefore, unless they put a GPS tracker inside of the ticket, they can't know or prove that, say, a mail person accidentally dropped it out of their car while driving, or that you speak another language and dont understand what it is. Therefore it stands to reason that legally they can't hold you to appearing in court. Your right to confront your accuser, no witnessIn these cases there are usually no witnesses and your accuser is a camera, meaning that you are robbed of your constiutional right to face your accuser. [2]Burden of ProofIts on the government to prove that you commited the crime. traffic cameras usually don't detect the face, meaning there is no way to incriminate you as the person doing the crime. It could be that your son took the car for a joy ride or that someone temporarily stole your car.Paying encourages profit based law enforcementits a clear case of reward pyschology that when you can milk the money out of something you will try to milk as much money as possible out of it. This means that our local governments are becoming incitivezed to increase the amount of people the cameras photograph, this leads to governments lowering yellow light length...ect, especially because they recieve such a small cut of the ticket profit. You shouldn't support such an immoral incentive scheme.Thus these companies can send you the ticket and hope you respond with your information, which means you then have to go to court. So don't pay, throw them away. In some juristictions though, they will send you yet another one which summons you to court, this is highly unlikely, but in the event that this happens you simply have to send this letter: The local governments know that they won't win on their evidence especially after you seem to show youare willing to fight, and will simply drop it. In the microscopic chance they actually do care. you still win the dispute in court because of constitutionality arguments. Furthermore, traffic cams violate physics which must be there to actually prove youwere speeding, as seen in the letter. Just keep in ming that almost always, it doesn't: go on your credit, and again, is very unlikely they send you a warrant.Safety red light cameras have actually been found to increase traffic accidents becasue although the number of T-bone accidents go down, the number of rear end collisions go up due to people stopping too fast becasue they fear the camera.[1] But either way, you're the one who's really getting T-boned here, just look at the prices of these tickets, they are outrageous, save yourself some money. Also, appealing to people by saying that we should punish ourselves for doing bad and speeding assumes that there are two types of people, those who don't care about doing good and those who do care and thus want to reinforce good driving behabior, thus anyone who will agree with this logic is one who values the good practice of not speeding, however, clearly, by virtue of being that type of person they don't need to 'punish themselve', their conscious is already doing this for them. This view also doesn't take into account accidentally going through these lights. So this round is very very easy to evaluate at this point. These companies don't have the authority to ticket you. They can't garuntee you recieve the ticket, and thus you're best bet is to pretend you never got it and throw it in the trash.Furthermore there are a ton of other reasons that this just won't hold up in court, meaning in the astronomical chance that you actually do get summoned you still win and can claim you simply didn't recieve the ticket.Pro's responses just aren't cutting it. Some of his points actually prove mine!So don't respond to these fake tickets.Sources[1] http://www.usatoday.com... [2] http://www.motorists.org...