[astura]

In some locations the speed enforcement is autonomous.

>My experience...

Will of course be much different from someone who lives in a different locale or is a different ethnicity and/or social class than you.

>If our local cops did this, I'd just make an online post about it so everybody knew the cops were doing it and then it would stop.

Yeah, ok.

I've met a lot of people with inflated egos but believing you can dictate local law enforcement policy with your internet posts is on a whole nother level.

[dekhn]

Autonomous? You mean, like a system that takes photos and sends you a bill? Yes, most such things were removed in our town after it turned out they were set wrong (sending tickets to people who didn't break the law).

Our city manager reads patch, reddit and other things for our town and occasionally engages with the community around policy. This is absolutely something where if you wrote a careful post on reddit saying "Hey, are our cops doing the right thing stopping people going 1mph near a school instead of stopping <whatever>"? There would be an argument, a few people would say 1mph is 1mph over the law, but really, the outcome would be that the ticket appeal would be approved and the cops in my town would be told not to do that.

Pointing out to somebody who says "in my experience" that others would have a different experience is pointless. I know that. If cops are giving people tickets for ethnicity (or even deadheads driving through georgia, which used to happen) that's an entirely different problem from pointless enforcement.