If you want this to stop, presumably you need to step out of the middle age and allow actual automated speed cams as every other country does.
Now, there are two sides here. A matter of fact debtors prison for poor people and a vicious cycle where they keep accumulating more fines through inability of paying is a travesty of law.
But I can hardly sympathize with the discussion on speed traps, in a country where apparently 10mph over is considered a crass misuse of law (here, this nets you a month long driving ban) and tickets need to be written by officers, which naturally drastically limits enforcement, and driving on a suspended license is seen as a violation on the level of failure to use turn signals. Frankly, driving without a valid license should cause your car to be immediately and permanently impounded and any license only reissued on a retest after a ban. We can't get into a situation where having a valid license is more or less immaterial.
Are you writing from a place that has an efficient and reliable public transport network that runs around the clock?
If you are then I don't mind heavy enforcement of suspended licenses, but if you aren't when you clamp down on the "privilege" of driving a car you may also be destroying their ability to support themselves and their family. Having heavy punishments on a necessity like transport, without an adequate replacement, is hugely skewed against the poor. The rich can get someone else to drive or have their lawyer fight their license points, but the poor get disproportionately screwed.
Americans complaining about speed traps and red light cameras are a constant embarrassment to me.
I live in New York. This city should look like a less architecturally tasteful version of Amsterdam. Instead, it's infested with cars. We should have red light cameras at every intersection, zero-tolerance enforcement of speeding laws, congestion charging, etc., instead the subway is crumbling.
I've given up, I'm starting to learn Dutch... I want to live somewhere that actually cares about transportation.
Red light cameras are a real problem. Since tickets are incentivized, some of the more greedy agencies have shortened the yellow light timing, leading to more tickets and also more accidents.
I literally can't understand how some agencies can just go ahead and "shorten the yellow light timing". In EU the length of the yellow light is mandated by law and a small town in a middle of nowhere can do nothing to change it. There are a few exceptions - like in Portugal light changing from red directly to green, but no one anywhere has any power to change the length of the yellow light timing. It's mind boggling because EU consists of different countries which could very well make their own rules but decided to standardize them so all EU citizens can drive all over EU and expect the same rules everywhere. Yet US is a single country and can't have consistent driving rules??
Now, there are two sides here. A matter of fact debtors prison for poor people and a vicious cycle where they keep accumulating more fines through inability of paying is a travesty of law.
But I can hardly sympathize with the discussion on speed traps, in a country where apparently 10mph over is considered a crass misuse of law (here, this nets you a month long driving ban) and tickets need to be written by officers, which naturally drastically limits enforcement, and driving on a suspended license is seen as a violation on the level of failure to use turn signals. Frankly, driving without a valid license should cause your car to be immediately and permanently impounded and any license only reissued on a retest after a ban. We can't get into a situation where having a valid license is more or less immaterial.