The cameras that were used in the UK to thwart and solve crimes have been unsuccessful. Ironically the police prefer not to use them and would rather use human means to solve crimes. The camera represents the most inhuman face of the state. They are purely cynical in their deployment. I do not like them.
Speeding cameras have become popular with local and state government in Arizona. They local councils make approximately two million off them each year. Though I have seen figures as high as seven and fourteen million mentioned. Nobody likes them - other than the politicians. They get defaced; people protest infront of them; and drivers flick their headlights on and off when a mobile one is deployed in one of the many horizontal streets that connects the loops in Phoenix.
Yet more and more get put in.
Update Many years ago, probably in the mid-90s, a mate of mine invested a bunch of money in companies that make video and speed camera systems for government surveillance. His thinking was that governments were only going to do this more and more. The company that runs the Arizonan speed camera system is an Australian one.
