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  Dennis Hill says:

  February 18, 2012 at 5:52 pm

  So some people do not like the Des Moines police department’s traffic control cameras. Cameras that are usually not triggered unless a driver is traveling ten miles per hour or more over the speed limit, or runs a red light. They want the Iowa legislators to draw up a constitutional law that makes the cameras illegal. It would be a hypocritical law that allows habitual law breakers to continue with a willfully negligent behavior that kills 40,000 people and maims hundreds of thousands more in the US each year.
  This is not a numbers game, nor one to measure who can shout the loudest. It is the right and obligation of the cities and states to protect its law abiding citizens despite how many might resist it. The right a patrolman has to watch and monitor traffickers is inherent as much in the cameras.
  If the cameras are outlawed, it will be the responsibility of Iowa’s legislators to dramatically increase taxation to pay for ample patrolmen to continuously monitor major intersections, freeways, and highways. If they fail, they are shirking their responsibility to make our streets and highways safe.