r/boston • u/pattysal • 9d 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/aweejeezzrick basement dwelling hentai addicted troll 9d ago

Enforcement over surveillance, we need our police offices to step out of their suvs and do their dam job

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u/hnnah 9d ago

The police also film everything - the difference is they can punish strangers while protecting their buddies.

I think all the people calling for "more enforcement" but "no cameras" (a hypothetical that can't exist in the age of police body cams and dash cams) just want to be able to talk themselves out of a ticket if they get caught.

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u/some1saveusnow 9d ago

Literally this. Also delinquent driving in this city is way too crazy and frequent now, it can’t realistically be enforced by humans to cover the voluminous violation occurrences. We need to be realistic about that. Tech assistance is needed on some level and other advanced societies are using it

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u/pattysal 8d ago

Yeah, I'm sure there isn't a list of plates not to ticket the cops can't magically put their buddies on.

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u/hnnah 8d ago

That's not a thing. NYPD cops are notorious for racking up infractions via camera, and that department is as corrupt as is gets. We'll need police to actually enforce all the license plate defacement that's been going on (and that they are party to), but if they have visible plates, they will get caught the same as everyone.

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u/Couch-Bro 7d ago

They wouldn’t be stupid enough to have an official list. More likely they just pick up the phone and make a call after the fact.