Pickerington Area Taxpayers Alliance

Barack's here?

When did the Prez start posting here with his doom and gloom, sky is falling approach towards life?

You're getting bogged down in the sales pitch and I'm glad some members of our council aren't buying it!

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At least sixty-eight cities in the state of California have accepted what is an increasingly irresistible sales presentation from red light camera vendors such as Texas-based ACS and Australia's Redflex. These companies approach local officials and police departments offering substantial revenue with no strings attached and no effort required on the part of police. Monterey Park is one of the handful of cities to reject the pitch.

''The company told us we have a red-light running problem,'' Monterey Park Police Sergeant David Elliott told the San Gabriel Valley Tribune. ''They said we had 300 people run the light over three days.''

After examining photographs from a trial red light camera set up in the city, Elliott concluded that only two of them represented offenses for which a human police officer would issue a citation. The rest were split-second technical violations visible only to a camera lens. A statewide audit of photo enforcement programs showed split-second violations accounted for as many as 88 percent of tickets issued.

PPD is hiring?

So we're basing decisions on a cop in Monterey rather than information provided by Mike Taylor of the Pickerington Police Department?

I thought that we were paying Mike as the Chief of Police for a reason. If he says that we need more cops, more patrol cars, more bullets, or even a system like Red-Flex... I would have to assume that he knows what he's talking about.

If not, than what in the world are we paying him for?

Sounds familiar

My question would be did he review the footage of Redflex's study? Their sales pitch is the same everywhere, some fall for it, some don't.

What

So you're saying that the Chief of Police... a man that we are paying a great deal of money to each year is so inept that he falls for a sales pitch?

You must be joking... or you're one of the idiots that don't understand that red means stop and green means go.

Which is it?