MATT WELCH: Police Defend, Lie About Devices That Extract Money From and Cause Bodily Harm to Citizens. “The problem? Motorists see the cameras flash, slam on their brakes, and get rear-ended. Helpfully, the LAPD does not measure rear-end crashes in front of red-light intersections; but only the crashes of people who’ve run a red. Those are down 34 percent, which the department crows about. When confronted with overall intersection data, which tells an unhappier story, the LAPD suddenly says this: ‘It would be improper to draw a correlation between all accidents going up and the red light cameras.'”

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