Capitalism caused a problem?
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teamevil@lemmy.world 5 months agoWe 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.
anarchy79@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 5 months ago
I don’t think we have that problem in Finland and we are a capitalist country.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 5 months ago
A private company?
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 5 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…
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 5 months ago
I was talking about Finns in Finland complaining about speed cameras.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
I would just assumed because they are using the same Swedish company (Sensys Gatso) that does profit sharing agreements with municipalities in the US, that the agreement is the same.
I can’t seem to find the finnish contract award details, so I can’t confirm that they are. I am thinking now, that their might be a chance that they aren’t, given how extreme finnish traffic violation costs can be (% of salary).
teamevil@lemmy.world 5 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.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 5 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.
TheFriar@lemm.ee 5 months ago
They’re talking about in the US.
MNByChoice@midwest.social 5 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.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 5 months ago
I was talking about Finns in Finland complaining about speed cameras.