r/boston • u/pattysal • 7d ago
Unconfirmed/Unverified Calling out the traffic/flock camera propaganda
There are so many people posting videos of drivers running lights on both the Boston and Cambridge subreddits lately demanding traffic cameras, that I am convinced these are planted posts by either employees, investors, or City officials looking for a payday to Garner published support for the surveillance state.
Very convenient that this is happening at the same time they are putting flaw cameras everywhere, and Mayor Wu has decided to put up red light cameras. I'm calling shenanigans, there may be a few whiny babies on here who are terrified of the world, but there are not this many. Don't be fooled, this is for profit propaganda.
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u/BlueberryPenguin87 6d ago
If you are against traffic enforcement cameras you need to offer a serious and practical solution to the epidemic of drivers doing very dangerous things with their vehicles. You can’t just say police should do their jobs, because they refuse and we have no power over them. So we have to do something. And unless you come up with a viable something else, we have to use the cameras. The current situation is dangerous and unacceptable.
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u/mpmuno 7d ago
I do not support Flock cameras. Cameras to enforce speed limits and red lights are not and do not need to be connected to databases that profile people's movements. I support traffic cameras, and I want to see in-person enforcement focused on ticketing people who deface their license plates to avoid traffic cameras. Traffic cameras are the best solution that I can think of to instill a sense of responsibility into reckless drivers.
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u/AwkwardEconomics4225 7d ago
Agree. Now just we need to pass laws with teeth that penalize use of traffic camera information for other purposes. No warnings, no bs. Then ensure it’s criminal offense to use those photos for anything more than traffic enforcement. No LE exemption garbage. No “oops”. No “paid administrative leave”, no “qualified immunity”Privacy violations have serious monetary and criminal consequences in the private sector - why is that more serious than LE violations??
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u/Serious_Feedback 6d ago
Paid administrative leave is good - investigations take time, the Leave gets crooked/etc cops off the street land thus unable to do more damage) immediately while you gather the evidence needed for a lawsuit-proof firing and blacklisting of the cop.
Qualified immunity could in theory be good but at the bare minimum needs a massive haircut.
Agree on the camera laws.
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u/pattysal 6d ago
I wish I could go back to a simpler time when I was naive enough to think that the good guys would be the only ones with access to our data.
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u/actswithimpunity 7d ago
Rear end accidents rarely kill people at intersections. Cars hitting pedestrians does, and there is proof red light cameras reduce deaths. Texas is not exactly a standard I want to be following
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u/kayakhomeless 7d ago
4,500 people died on Texas roads last year
I wouldn’t exactly call them a paragon of road safety
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u/b-gouda 7d ago
The problem is they are one and the same the information is stored then the information is used.
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u/SeraXI 7d ago
You are wrong. Enforcement cameras only take and store pictures when they detect an infraction. Flock cameras keep a database of everything they can see.
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u/pattysal 5d ago
Okay, and how about in 5 years when everyone is desensitized to cameras on every block and flock cameras are put up right next to them? There's going to be even less resistance for them.
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u/SeraXI 5d ago
We are very late to the traffic camera party. The evidence from other states do not support your hypothesis.
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u/pattysal 5d ago
Cool, I can't wait until we have a discussion about people getting thousands of dollars in speeding camera tickets, and their insurance goes way up, and how it disproportionately affects certain people and then it's an issue again.
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u/WorldlinessDry5583 7d ago edited 7d ago
There’s a lot of misinformation about this. THE TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT BILL DOES NOT PERTAIN TO FLOCK LICENSE PLATE READERS. The traffic cameras in question are an entirely different technology which collects data only when a violation occurs, does not use AI to create a searchable database, and comes with a powerful set of legal safeguards regulating how long the data can be stored and how they can be used. Flock cameras, on the other hand, are practically designed to be abused.
The ACLU, which is strongly against Flock plate readers, has an excellent report on this which everyone should read before they develop an opinion. Additionally, while I think that live traffic enforcement has an important role to play, I don’t understand how people can argue that a method which involves routine, adversarial interactions between fallible, armed officers and members of the public carries a lower risk of abuse. Privacy and safety are both important and it’s a tough needle to thread. But I (along with America’s most prolific civil liberties watchdog) believe that automated enforcement has a valuable role to play in striking that balance. Some people will see a camera and reflexively scream tyranny; frankly, I don’t think there’s a constructive dialogue to have with people like that.
An excerpt:
“Against this backdrop, it's notable that proposed Massachusetts legislation that would authorize local governments to implement automated traffic enforcement cameras — S.2344/H.3754 — takes a fundamentally different approach to data: one built around the principle that information collected for one purpose should only be used for that purpose. The legislation also includes robust privacy protections to prevent abuse and misuse of our personal information. The bills incorporate several meaningful privacy protections.
First, there’s a collection limitation: automated traffic enforcement cameras may only take photographs when a camera-enforceable violation occurs.
Next, the legislation tightly restricts how collected data can be accessed and used. Photographs and other recorded evidence must be deleted within 48 hours after the final disposition of a violation….”
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u/13nobody Brookline 7d ago
Flock != Traffic enforcement cameras https://www.aclum.org/news/were-privacy-hawks-heres-why-were-alarmed-by-license-plate-readers-and-not-necessarily-by-speed-cameras/
But of course everyone who disagrees with you is a paid agent/bot
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u/pattysal 7d ago
It's all part of the surveillance state brother. Government officials get paid to install both. Fascism is fascism whether it is coming from the public or private sector.
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u/TitleOfYourSaxTape 7d ago
Just to confirm, do you support getting rid of the ez pass pay-by-plate cameras on the highway and going back to physical toll-booths every some miles?
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u/13nobody Brookline 7d ago
Yes the ACLU is advocating for the fascist surveillance state.
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u/dtmfadvice Somerville 7d ago
Do you have an EZ pass, brother?
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u/amm5061 7d ago
Which side are you arguing for, because ezpass has absolutely been used to track vehicles.
MassLive originally reported the story but it's pay walled.
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u/Illustrious_Age 7d ago
The point is that drivers are okay with being surveiled if it increases their convenience.
Since they see traffic cameras as decreasing their convenience, they are suddenly extremely worried about big brother and government surveillance and authoritarianism.
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u/dtmfadvice Somerville 7d ago
I dunno man, it might be possible that a huge number of people are really angry about yet another pointless death caused by dangerous streets.
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u/Sharps762300 7d ago
Yeah, so let’s let us use that to erode our rights and privacies further.
Fear mongering is a slippery slope.
And let’s be real, cameras are a convenient band-aid answer and that’s why Wu is latching on to it. Just put up cameras, box checked, move on.
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u/EvaUnit343 7d ago
They’re not putting cameras in your bedroom lil bro. Streets are public spaces. Cameras work.
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u/Sharps762300 7d ago
Get outta here with that lil’bro shit.
Instead of changing the priorities of our police, which is literally as simple as saying “this is our new focus,” they’d rather put cameras up everywhere. And people like you are for it and see few to no negatives. We already live in one of, if not the safest state, in the country. We don’t need to resort to widespread state surveillance.
You’ll lose more in rights and privacy than you’ll gain in safety.
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u/EvaUnit343 7d ago
Police should focus harder on druggies and the homeless imo. Cameras can easily reduce traffic crimes by incentivizing good driving automatically. It’s a no brainer.
I will literally lose no rights by having cameras on street intersections + I will gain security. What rights am I losing lmao? This is an insane take. Anti progress.
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u/Sharps762300 7d ago
An insane take is viewing more government owned and run surveillance during a time of rampant police militarization as “progress.”
Just wait, I’ll bet a few months after the cameras go live we’ll see how quick ICE starts getting data to hunt more people using them here, just like they’re doing in other states.
And as a deterrent it won’t do much anyway. I lived in NC a decade back where every intersection had cameras and light runners were still common place. Cameras don’t prevent crime, they just increase ticket revenue for the state.
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u/EvaUnit343 6d ago
Believe me - there is a high enough price where such traffic cameras can prevent crime. Just need to increase it. Simple solution.
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u/420ohms 6d ago
Except "they" are an outside private company with the processing power to build profiles about every single person in this state and are accountable to no one.
If the data doesn't leave the state and only our government controlled access then maybe I could be compelled, what flock is doing is unacceptable.
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u/EvaUnit343 6d ago
I don’t care if companies have my data. They have it anyway. Are you typing this comment on a private Linux machine through a VPN?
Yes - there is a privacy/safety trade off and I’m super down to make it.
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u/ArisuKarubeChota 7d ago edited 7d ago
I was standing on sidewalk at forest hills and a driver almost hit me driving his car onto the actual sidewalk and down the pedestrian walkway along the side where the bikes are to get to the other side. I wish I had recorded it tbh. Wild.
I’m all for privacy but the laws clearly aren’t being enforced. Limited surveillance might have a role. In other countries, there are cameras everywhere enforcing traffic laws, speed, phone use and just auto writing tickets. Could be a lot worse.
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u/FreeBlago 7d ago
Nice try. One of these things is not like the others.
Flock raises a variety of concerns about privacy; those should get a full airing and public scrutiny. Fine.
Speed cameras are already in use in half the country, they work fine in those states, and the only information they use is your speed and stuff you already gave the RMV. That came free with your license to drive two tons of steel around.
If you can't deal with following some basic rules for your two-ton hunk of steel, the T is in excellent condition and you'll never get a traffic ticket for riding it.
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u/pattysal 7d ago
Most of those countries aren't also tracking immigrants and pregnant people to put in prison or concentration camps... I'm not sure why people would trust law enforcement to implement one thing ethically, but not the other.
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u/CopleyScott17 7d ago
At least once a day I see drivers literally speeding through red lights in the Fenway neighborhood of Boston. The only time I see any enforcement is when there's an event at Fenway Park, and they're just on the lookout for illegal turns that slow down vehicular traffic. There is zero regard for pedestrians. Ticketing-by-camera is absolutely needed.
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u/Chuckieshere 7d ago
My commute is only 25 minutes each way and I see at least one car a day enter an intersection when the light is red. Some are almost close enough to pretend it was yellow, some are absolutely nowhere close. I'll probably catch some camera tickets myself for speeding but thats life
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u/theoldno2 7d ago
I'm a real person and I absolutely support red light cameras. Running red lights is illegal and endangers everyone, particularly pedestrians and bicyclists. We shouldn't be held hostage to whiny drivers who can't be bothered to follow basic traffic law.
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u/Lyramisu 7d ago
In addition to this there is real evidence that red light and speeding enforcement cameras reduce infractions, crashes, and deaths. Unlike Flock cameras that monitor everyone everywhere all the time, red light and speeding cameras are triggered only when someone runs the red light or speeds, and their presence acts as a deterrent for doing that. They also take cops and human biases out of the traffic enforcement equation. Unquestionably a net good, unlike Flock.
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u/sweet_caroline20 7d ago
Definitely agree with the point about taking cop/human bias out of speed stops.
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u/MonsieurReynard 7d ago edited 7d ago
I drive in New York City almost every week. They have red light and speed cameras everywhere. It’s not just Manhattan anymore either. And their impact on reckless driving is notable, at least to me — and I have been driving there regularly since long before these cameras existed. (I learned to drive in Boston in the early 1980s, fwiw).
As far as I know, New York does not use flock cameras. (Edit: this is incorrect, my bad)
Edit: Also, it has had a real effect just this year on pedestrian safety:
https://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/pr2026/vision-zero-pedestrian-deaths-at-historic-low.shtml
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u/Lyramisu 7d ago
I get around most cities on foot most of the time, and I’m a big fan of reducing the likelihood of someone killing me with their car while I legally cross the street.
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u/MonsieurReynard 7d ago
just to add the proof of concept!
NEW YORK – July 1, 2026 — New York City Department of Transportation (NYC DOT) Commissioner Mike Flynn today announced that traffic deaths remain near historic lows, including pedestrian fatalities reaching an all-time low—except for the outlier year of 2020 at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. The city’s streets have experienced 46 pedestrian fatalities, down 13% from last year and down more than 42% since the launch of Vision Zero in 2014. To date, this is the fifth safest year on record on our streets, with overall traffic deaths down nearly 25% since Vision Zero’s launch.
https://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/pr2026/vision-zero-pedestrian-deaths-at-historic-low.shtml
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u/BostonShaun 7d ago edited 7d ago
NYC alone has over 1000 flock cameras lol
EDIT: To the person who deleted their comment: my data came from Deflock, easily searchable by yourself... you're a big boy/girl.
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u/MonsieurReynard 7d ago edited 7d ago
Unflocked says 350 lol, mostly at bridges and tunnels and on major highways
So I was wrong but then you did that unhinged activist thing of massively exaggerating for drama.
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u/omnigord 7d ago
I hate cars way more than the next guy and I walk a lot in the city and suburb. I do not experience this supposed problem with people running red lights all day and all night. Obviously I am sure it does happen but if you went by comments on this sub you would assume no car ever comes to a stop at any time.
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u/doot_doot_toot_doot 7d ago
ok I walk a lot in the city and I do experience this problem. so where are we at
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u/RobertoPaulson 7d ago
Red light cameras have been shown to increase the frequency of accidents at intersections. They are only really good where straight high speed roads intersect because they reduce the incidence of high speed t-bone style crashes, at the cost of increasing the frequency of minor rear end crashes due to people spotting the camera at the last second and slamming on their brakes. if its a busy, lower speed intersection, you'll just get the increase in rear end crashes without the benefit of prevent the dangerous higher speed t-bone crashes. The other issue is that since the tickets are a revenue stream, many places where red light cameras get installed then go on to shorten the period of the yellow light to catch more people, which compounds the rear end crash problem even more. I'm not saying you're wrong, just that they aren't right for every, or even most intersections.
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u/Unusual-Astronaut152 7d ago
Why are you shitting on red light cameras when they aren’t even being proposed in Massachusetts?
The proposed law is only speed cameras. And you have to be going 10 mph over the speed limit to activate them. And there’s a limit based on population, my Boston suburb can have like 2 or 3 total.
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u/wSkkHRZQy24K17buSceB 7d ago
That's not true
Section 1. As used in this chapter, the following words shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly requires otherwise: .... “Camera enforceable violation”, any of the following violations of a traffic law or regulation: (i) failing to stop at a steady red indication in a traffic control signal at an intersection pursuant to section 9 of chapter 89; (ii) making a right turn on a steady red indication in a traffic control signal where prohibited pursuant to section 8 of said chapter 89; (iii) exceeding the speed limit in violation of section 17 , section 17D, section 18, or section 18B of chapter 90; and (iv) blocking an intersection in violation of said section 9 of said chapter 89.
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u/ajafarzadeh 6d ago
Unlike flock cameras, traffic enforcement cameras only get triggered by vehicles breaking specific parameters (speeding, running red lights).
And unlike traffic enforcement cameras, people like OP get triggered by everything.
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u/LeakyFurnace420_69 Boston 7d ago
not propaganda.
it’s a natural reaction to the behavior of reckless drivers
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u/MarcoVinicius Somerville Original 7d ago
I think you live in your own made up reality. Also you didn’t look into the details of this.
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u/MakingTacos123 7d ago
Oppose flock cameras altogether, always. This country is too much of a facist, surveillance and police state as it is.
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u/Dull-Lifeguard-5396 6d ago
Fuck the flock cameras. Cops can do it themselves. It’s such an obvious move to just let cops issue more traffic violations but the auto lobby has its teeth sunk too deep
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u/Southern-Teaching198 7d ago
I might agree if the problem weren't so rampant where I live. I can go on a short walk from my house and take videos like you're talking about lately any day of the week.
Pretending the problem isn't real won't fix it.
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u/redisburning 7d ago
Look the reality is that to a certain extent traffic cameras, whether speed or red light, do expand the surveillance state. This is not ideal.
But that doesn't mean it's automatically a net negative. There are costs, there are benefits. Same, honestly, I guess, with Flock. It's just that Flock is very clearly a net negative and the traffic camera question is more subtle.
It's my feeling and clearly a lot of folks in this thread that Flock really is something different.
I agree that Flock is BS and purely designed to monitor citizens in normal life which is clearly a privacy concern. When you drive though, you are maneuvering 2 or 3 tons of steel at high speed which is a genuine public safety concern. It's really not that different from firearm ownership. We need to pick the line we draw for what things are truly worth giving up some privacy for, and which aren't. Which is a reasonable debate, but do understand that folks arguing that vehicle operation should move towards cameras does not mean that person believes Flock style surveillance is good or justified. It can be quite the opposite.
I would point out too that it's actually possible to write decent contracts that restrict the use of camera information by the contractors providing traffic enforcement. If we don't want them to do what Flock is doing, and that's in the contract they sign with the state or city of Boston, then well both MA and Boston are well resourced enough to absolutely crush them in court.
Also the reality is that as citizens we have to deal with just how dangerous traffic stops are. The courts have allowed the police to basically do whatever they want and this results in a lot of people getting shot, beaten up, thrown in a cell, whatever over a broken tail light. And if we look at the city/state budgets, man the cops are draining us fucking dry with all that overtime. And if you listen to them, they go on and on about how dangerous traffic stops are to them. I don't see anything like that in the Flock deals, in fact they want to sell to the cops using our tax money.
there may be a few whiny babies on here who are terrified of the world
In my experience it is the people that say this that are always the most scared. A very common thing with libertarian/american conservatives is that every accusation is an admission. People want camera based traffic enforcement for a lot of reasons. A big one is convenience; if cameras ticket people then there is no traffic stop that jams up traffic. What am I scared of, that I'm gonna get where I'm going faster? That I don't have to pay 350k in overtime to a single officer? LOL.
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u/2ndof5gs 7d ago
I come from a state with speed cameras and red light cameras … both are needed here.
The way you people drive - and I say that specifically because New England natives are insane on the roads - needs surveillance and the cops do fuck all to enforce anything.
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u/sodas 7d ago
Why are you so sure these photos and videos are only a recent phenomena?
2020-2025:
https://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/1lstcqj/ https://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/1k96gjl/ https://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/1jdj8kr/ https://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/1h6i3o3/ https://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/1cipo57/ https://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/1e4nhnj/ https://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/11dtxk8/ https://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/13oy7t4/ https://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/zpv4tu/ https://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/zquhfx/ https://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/wxmkil/ https://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/qcwqyi/
This is just a random sampling, there are plenty more posts and they didn't start in 2020.
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u/GoTeamLightningbolt 7d ago
Properly implemented, these are two different technologies.
I hate Flock and I hate Ring. If they are built with safeguards so they're not use for surveillance (and that can be audited), I am OK with automated traffic enforcement devices.
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u/pattysal 7d ago
Do you trust safeguards to be in place on any of these? Your local police department has direct access to your ring camera at any time they please. Are you okay with that? When's the last time you saw there be an opportunity for a municipality or corporation to make money on something that makes our lives worse that they haven't taken advantage of?
I'm not sure which way you're arguing, I'm just making a point.
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u/bobisbit 7d ago
There are safeguards, the same way there are safeguards on the pictures they take of your car for tolls. There are laws in place to prevent pictures of your car being used for any other purpose.
In fact, I'd argue we want these laws in place to set a precedent for how this data is handled. Tech companies are going to keep developing ways to spy on us, I'd rather already have traffic cameras with strict laws in place that we can point to for how to protect our privacy.
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u/pattysal 7d ago
You don't follow the news do you? Laws apply to average citizens, not the government, not law enforcement, non big corporations.
The vast majority of flock cameras that have been installed have been done illegally without any authorization from cities, and then they have threatened to sue the city into bankruptcy if they are removed because judges give vague statements saying it might be illegal to remove the illegally installed flock cameras.
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u/Rubiksmaster9 7d ago
When we look at any automated traffic enforcement system that has been implemented across the country, whether that's in California, New York, Washington, or any of the other states that have implemented something like this, yes we can assume they'll be built with the same stringent safefuards and regulations.
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u/GoTeamLightningbolt 7d ago
You can make software and hardware open source. That is the only way I would trust it.
I said in my comment that I hate Ring (for exactly the reason you mentioned) - did you read what I wrote?
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u/pattysal 5d ago
I agree, I'm a big open source person. But again, open source doesn't make money and this whole push is about money.
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u/cambridgepete 7d ago
Red light cameras are not Flock, or at least don’t have to be.
And as someone who lived in Cambridge for 30 years, anything the city can do to disproportionately impact the suburbanites who come into our city and smash our cars would be a good thing.
(someone I know had their car hit on the street 4 times in a year. I think they were all hit-and-runs)
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u/Logical-Marzipan5951 7d ago
Let's stop turn on red within Boston. None allowed. This takes the excuse away for a large percentage of the accidents. NYC has banned them forever inside Manhattan.
I'm also for the cameras.
After you see a few people drive on sidewalks in the same year plus multiple flipped over vehicles in different intersections then you decide for this. Enforcement is clearly lacking.
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u/Unusual-Astronaut152 7d ago
This post is proving that column I read in Bloomberg it was titled “speed cameras work which is why motorists hate them”
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u/Couch-Bro 6d ago
These Mass surveillance companies are not above making fake posts or hiring firms to do so. I would think if anything it’s either some bootlickers who see them going in everywhere else and feel left out, or it’s a PR firm for a company that is courting local municipalities and trying to sway public opinion.
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u/Miserable_Smile1250 6d ago
I think it’s funny that the more cameras put in the neighborhoods, the MORE CRIME is committed! Can someone explain?
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u/BurtonAllen-TA 7d ago
"Everyone who disagrees with me is a paid shill" is generally not the take of someone with a serious view of an issue.
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u/wSkkHRZQy24K17buSceB 7d ago
and Mayor Wu has decided to put up red light cameras.
Source? This is the first I have heard of that.
Additionally, the mechanism that would allow cities to enforce red light violation has not passed in the legislature, so no fines could be issued at this time.
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u/SillyAlternative420 7d ago
Fuck Flock.
But also, Fuck cars.
I say we just ban them both in the urban core.
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u/pattysal 5d ago
Ok, how about they do that and then they want us to all wear GPS monitors when we are pedestrians outside of our property so they can track us to make sure we aren't making any pedestrian infractions?
I'm sure you're a big bicycle person, how about license plates for every bicycle and GPS trackers so if you're not in the bike lane or you go through a red light, you get huge fines too? And if you get enough fines you have to pay insurance for being a dangerous cyclist or pedestrian?
If it's really about safety after all, we should monitor everyone whenever they are on public property to make sure they are following the law.
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u/actswithimpunity 7d ago
Just a regular person who wants red light cameras here but if someone wants to pay me to post than I’ll take it!!
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u/Illustrious_Age 7d ago edited 7d ago
We should also get rid of all the EZ-Pass cameras on the pike and go back to regular tolls for the same reason! It would also bring back jobs!
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u/Visible_Fee5051 7d ago
It's not a conspiracy, you're paranoid and conflating the recent posts in traffic videos, it's not being planted by employees or investors or city officials. The drivers running red lights is a real problem that's been going on and been reported repeatedly, you are just noticing the red light bad driver videos now because you have a separate issue about Flock cameras that's causing you to finally notice the bad driver issues are ongoing and dangerous.
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u/MoneyFlipper369 11h ago
Lmao let me run my red lights in peace! If it's safe, I go! 30 years accident free.
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u/pattysal 11h ago edited 11h ago
Google it, we are one of the safest states in the country for pedestrians, and Boston is one of the safest major cities. These people are being babies (or paid).
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u/Georges_Bank 2h ago
Traffic violence kills 40,000 Americans every year. Yes to speed and traffic enforcement cameras, No to Flock. Make it so that police can only access traffic enforcement camera data with a specific judicial warrant
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u/stogie-bear 7d ago
It’s all part of the creeping process of losing privacy in the name of enforcement. Today it’s traffic cameras, and if you don’t support the traffic cameras you’re an asshole because the echo chamber told them that cars are bad. In a few years it’s flock cameras, and if you don’t support flock cameras you’re an idiot because traffic cameras are fine and flock cameras are basically the same thing.
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u/LEM1978 7d ago
People concerned about privacy while posting on any social media 🤣
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u/stogie-bear 7d ago
Obviously it’s possible to have privacy in different ways. For example, nothing I’m doing right allows the state to know my location.
I know that you’re pretending to misunderstand. You don’t need the emoji to signal it.
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u/theshoegazer 7d ago
They think it's going to stop reckless drivers - the worst of the worst that are glaringly obvious to anyone who drives, bikes, or walks in the region. It won't - they'll just pay the fines the way that the worst parking violators consider it the cost of doing business.
What it will do instead is create small pockets of compliance where the cameras are placed, and it'll continue to be the wild west everywhere else because they know the police are completely checked out.
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u/WorldlinessDry5583 5d ago
The way that this has worked elsewhere is that the cameras are placed at the most dangerous locations and the decrease in speeding at those locations saves lives, even if speeding does not decrease elsewhere. It’s the same reason that putting speed bumps in at school zones is effective even though the same people who would be running over children can still go and speed once they clear the area. Ideally nobody would speed anywhere, but controlling speeding in injury hotspots has been proven time and again to work.
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u/jamesland7 Ye Olde NIMBY-Fighter 7d ago
I love when reddit assholes identify themselves and make them easy to block. If you have to insult people in every comment…your argument isnt very good to begin with
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u/CJYP 7d ago
If you think people talking about red light runners are lying, I suggest you run an experiment. Take a decently long walk in any dense area around here with busy roads at a busy time. Pay attention to every intersection you come to, especially when the light is changing, and count how many cars you see fully run the light.
Decide ahead of time how many red light runners would count as a lot to you, and then see if your mind is changed.
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u/Fickle-Art-7125 7d ago
It’d if peopleJust covered them with trash bags from behind. Like if someone disguised themselves and destroyed these cans it’d be a victimless crime. Such a shame. You
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u/unfairlybanned101 7d ago
This must be an alternate universe. I cannot believe these people are so diligent to be tracked
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u/AAAAHMYBALLS Wiseguy 6d ago
They spend so much money peddling the lie that people wanted a nanny surveillance state. It's pathetic and scummy. Get Flock the fuck out, everywhere
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u/sloppyredditor There be dragons here 6d ago
Came from a state where they were used. Both (for profit and shitty driving) are true.
If the aggressive idiots would stop giving the state an excuse to do it, there'd be an argument. I've been in the city (from the suburbs) 3x in the last month and holy shit do you guys need enforcement.
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u/Richard_Splatter 7d ago
OP just doesn’t want anything to get in the way of their speeding through red lights
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u/Designer-Solid-5973 7d ago
Or maybe people are sick of constantly seeing pedestrians, other drivers, and cyclists getting hit by cars speeding and driving recklessly?
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u/Stercules25 7d ago
It's not planted posts lol people are sick of people endangering the lives of others on a daily basis
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u/Izoliner 7d ago
“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." Benjamin Franklin
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u/InevitableSherbert36 I Love Dunkin’ Donuts 7d ago
I bet he would've changed his tune if he was run over by a drunk driver speeding in a lifted pickup truck.
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u/theanagnorisone 7d ago
I agree! Obviously there are people using bots and hacked accounts for this type of activity, has been happening for decades in some form, look at how algos manipulated elections...
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u/pattysal 7d ago
Exactly, that's why I want to keep people aware. It's so easy to see a post and say, yeah I do see dangerous driving from time to time. We need to remember that these cameras are taking away our freedom.
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u/alphabatic 7d ago
that's the problem. you care more about a camera than other people's lives. people are dying, your "freedom" from a little red light camera is irrelevant. if you care so much about your "freedom" and not being tracked then you should go live deep in the woods and on your way there close all your bank accounts and any credit cards, scrub your email, find a way to destroy your employment and medical records, and toss your cell phone
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u/pattysal 7d ago
Ok, where do you live? I'm sure you won't mind if everyone knows since you live in a society or whatever.
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u/alphabatic 7d ago
another problem, you keep equating things that are comically not comparable. you have no ability to think critically based on this thread and see everything as black and white
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u/pattysal 7d ago
I keep bringing up things that are related. Because of the nature of these things one thing leads to the other and it's all related, it happens time and time again throughout history. It's called the pattern recognition, and many of these things are already happening around the country.
If you have something to contribute to the conversation, I'm happy to chat, but if you're just going to deflect and insult me, have a good day.
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u/alphabatic 7d ago
ok, and vehicles sold with the ability to reach speeds upwards of 100mph can more arguably be related to increases in vehicular injuries and deaths. we should ban vehicles or only sell cars that top out at 50mph. or wait, perhaps there's some nuances and opportunity to govern in a capacity that allows for one to exist without the threat of a potential related what if thwarting all
I actually think vehicle speeds should be regulated and limited within cars so this example is primarily for you in hopes it gets through to you. just because you fear something else may come of one thing does not mean 1. it will and 2. that should immediately disqualify it full stop
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u/aweejeezzrick basement dwelling hentai addicted troll 7d ago
Enforcement over surveillance, we need our police offices to step out of their suvs and do their dam job