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• teamevil@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  We don’t like the idea a private company is enforcing laws not for safety but for profit. Especially when things like shortening of yellow light time and cameras that don’t properly report speed. It’s horseshit.

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  • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    A private company?

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    • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah. Even in the US many municipalities outsource almost the entire ticketing process to the company selling the cameras, and the company collects a (usually outsized) percentage of the fees. So the company has the incentive to use whatever shady tactics to increase ticketing infraction events. This could be by changing the camera angle slightly to falsely get plates from yellow throughers or sometimes they change light timing itself to increase ticketing events…

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      • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I was talking about Finns in Finland complaining about speed cameras.

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    • teamevil@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s not the local government putting them up, it’s a private company who is in charge and keeps at least half the revenue. Plus when their location is known and they get less effective the same company will try other things like altering yellow light time length to keep profits up.

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      • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Do you have a link explaining this? I searched for “poliisi valvontakamera” and “poliisi nopeuskamera asennus” and didn’t find stuff about who puts them up and whatnot or about the income sharing. I have read articles about how they’re a nice source of income for the state but no mention of the companies involved.

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    • MNByChoice@midwest.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      In the USA maybe it most speed cameras are owned and operated not by the local police or city, but by a private company that keeps some percent of the fines they give out.

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      • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I was talking about Finns in Finland complaining about speed cameras.

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  • anarchy79@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Capitalism caused a problem?

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    • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I don’t think we have that problem in Finland and we are a capitalist country.

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      • anarchy79@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You can at least pretend you are.

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• hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wait we have respect for the police in Finland?

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  • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Are you genuinely asking? Because we absolutely have respect for the police, it’s literally the most highly respected job.

    www.is.fi/suomi100/art-2000005208545.html

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    • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Oh wow, that’s quite a surprise to me. Doesn’t really reflect to what I learned growing up and in adulthood

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• Kalkaline@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Dey took 'r jobs

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