Paradise Valley Town Council is holding their normally scheduled meeting on Thursday Afternoon, starting at 3 pm. If you’re wondering, the address is 6401 E Lincoln Dr, Paradise Valley, Az 85253. CameraFRAUD volunteers will be there to collect signatures for the initiative to ban photo ticketing in Paradise Valley.
We have a very simple solution to this issue: Let’s do the right thing and take the cameras down in Paradise Valley. That would save the most time, money and is the safest option. However, if it needs to go to the voters, we’ve already seen how popular our initiative is at the polling places. 1,500+ signatures isn’t that far away!
Now that we are focused on Paradise Valley’s scameras, we thought we’d take a little tour and take some pictures of our own. By now we should expect to see things like this, but it’s always a little bit of a shock. The other pictures taken will get their due, but these were the absolute gems:
1. Redflex Technician is seen smoking while working on electronic equipment. That sounds like a winning combination, right? Nevermind that smoke can and does cause damage to electronics. One has to wonder how well this equipment could work under this type of care.
(Click to Enlarge) Worker seen smoking scurries down ladder once he realizes he's being photographed
3. As long as we’re all friends here, we decided to get a close up of Smokey for good measure. Is that a cigarette or mini cigar? Whatever it was probably wasn’t good for the laptop that was sitting on the passenger seat.
One of the largest news organizations in Australia is shedding light on just how negative the sentiment is towards the cameras there. They’ve seen what’s been happening in Arizona and are anxious to follow our lead. The Aussies are trying kick Redflex out of their Courts and take the cameras down!
Beleaguered ticketing firm Redflex blames “considerable public opposition” for their new financial woes. The talivan and speed camera peddler earned pilfered only $442,000 for the first half of 2010.
Our guess is that cross-town ‘rival’ American Traffic Solutions isn’t doing much better: ATS is vigorously fighting any and all local attempts to end their automated ticketing scheme.
Redflex doesn’t seem to understand the art of negotiation. They recently rejected an offer from Toll Road Operator Macquarie to buy their company for more than it’s actually worth, hoping to spark a bidding war. That part was laughable enough, but after releasing their Fiscal Year 2010 (FY2010) earnings report, you’ve got to wonder what they’re putting in the vegemite at Redflex HQ.
Profit is down 92% according to their own report. Let’s get this straight. NOW Redflex execs think companies will be lining up to buy them for much more than they are worth? That makes about as much sense as a screen door in a submarine.
We know water swirls the other way in the land down under, but the last we heard, money still goes in the same direction.
At this point it’s becoming clear what needs to happen. The first would be drug testing for the Redflex brass, of course. But secondly it seems so much damage has been done to this scam peddler with bad press that it’s our duty to auction them off to the public, one scrap metal birdhouse and video camera at a time.
Do we have an opening bid on the soon-to-be decommissioned scameras at McDonald and Tatum?
What do you do when your industry approaches market saturation and increased public opposition?
This is the question the peddlers of automated ticketing will have to start asking themselves in the immediate future if they hope to survive in any form whatsoever.
Almost all large United States cities have been approached by either Redflex or American Traffic Solutions pitching the tired, debunked claims of improved traffic safety.
Unfortunately for these companies, voters and drivers have awakened to the scheme and are opposing new and existing systems worldwide over a variety of reasons, from civil liberties concerns to the proper role of government.
Smaller and smaller communities are being being swindled into signing contracts with these corporations, resulting in millions of dollars being extracted from local economies and sent directly to the profiteering vendors.
The blowback to such installations has ranged from expected opposition to cold-blooded murder. Last week, the confessed shooter of a Redflex photo radar van driver in Arizona was sentenced to 22 years in prison.
Unclear is the liability the State of Arizona will face for their “romp in the bed” with corporatism in the form of photo enforcement. Redflex was contractually obligated to provide “public service announcements” to explain automated ticketing to the public when the statewide ticketing contract was signed with the Department of Public Safety.
DPS is now being sued by the surviving family, and rightfully so. It doesn’t take an overpaid government beancounter to figure out that placing an unarmed civilian in a vehicle falsely marked as law enforcement is a bad idea.
With an onslaught of bad publicity, automated ticketing vendors may remember 2010 as the year their business model went sour. Lawsuits demanding refunds plague Redflex in Minnesota to the tune of millions of dollars while increased legal challenges in Florida and California threaten the very existence of red light cameras and so-called speed enforcement.
The Cameras are Coming Down… but in the end it may be due to the fatally flawed business model based on greed and inconclusive results that ATS and Redflex have depended on for over a decade.
[Opinion] The most anti photo radar candidate in Arizona period is looking for volunteers to work at polling places tomorrow.
If you would like to help David Fitzgerald with his campaign for Arizona State House of Representatives in Legislative District 6, this would be a great chance to get in on the ground floor with a principled candidate. David is committed to ending photo ticketing in all forms in Arizona.
If interested, please call 623-340-1811 for info. The most critical times for volunteers are 6-9 am and 4-7 pm. Volunteers will be asked to reinforce David’s message at a legal distance away from the voting booths. All the details are available at the previously mentioned phone number or by emailing his campaign.
Headquarters for this effort will be set up in the Denny’s at the intersection of I-17 and Bell Road in North Phoenix.
Want to get on the action? Don’t pass this one up.
CameraFRAUD would like to take a moment to recognize and thank assistant organizer Natalie for her exceptional dedication and commitment over the past two years. She will be leaving the Grand Canyon State this week to explore new opportunities in the Pacific northwest. With us from the beginning, Natalie attended the very first demonstration in Scottsdale and RSVP’d for an astounding 64 CameraFRAUD events over the past two years. On behalf of all of our members and readers, we’re eternally grateful for your diligent work!
It’s time to bring the cameras down in Paradise Valley! The initiative paperwork will be filed for Paradise Valley this week which means it’s time for us to get out and start collecting signatures! For Paradise Valley we need about 1150 valid signatures.
Our plan is to gather most if not all of the signatures by getting signatures at polling places for the primary election on Aug 24, and we NEED your help! This will be the easiest and best opportunity to reach out to known-good, registered Paradise Valley voters.
IN ADDITION TO COLLECTING SIGNATURES – we will ask voters to collect signatures for us and give them signature sheets with instructions to mail in to us to help multiply our efforts.
Details are on the Meetup page. Please visit the page and RSVP ASAP! The $10 cost is OPTIONAL and helps pay for a petition gathering t-shirts.
Racing to the scene of the next potential lucrative revenue stream, ACS photo vans were caught speeding and running red lights
Not to be outdone by American Traffic Solutions and their City of Mesa traffic law scofflaw caught last week by CameraFRAUD volunteers, it appears Denver’s fleet of scam vans are driven with even more wreckless impunity.
Denver’s racket is run by Affiliated Computer Services, a government-contracting conglomerate that also dabbles in the lucrative field of extortion by mail and fraud by deception— otherwise known as automated ticketing.
ACS was purchased by Xerox last year, and some believe that IBM may be lining up behind Redflex as a potential phantom purchaser.
Paradise Valley Town Council is holding their normally scheduled meeting on Thursday Afternoon, starting at 3 pm. If you’re wondering, the address is 6401 E Lincoln Dr, Paradise Valley, Az 85253. CameraFRAUD volunteers will be there to collect signatures for the initiative to ban photo ticketing in Paradise Valley.
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CameraFRAUD would like to take a moment to recognize and thank 
