Lake County Sheriff Mark Curran Adds Support to Effort to BanRedCams
September 22nd, 2009 | Author: admin
This morning, Sheriff Mark Curran of Lake County confirmed his support of the effort to BanRedCams in Illinois. Noting that people “don’t want to live in a police state,” Sheriff Curran believes that government should use the many proven methods of increasing safety at intersections (e.g., increasing yellow light times), not red light cameras.
Remember, red light cameras have been shown to increase accidents. And, in the Village of Lombard, headquarters of RedSpeed, 100% – or almost 100% - of red light camera violations are for right turns on red, a driving maneuver shown to have negligible impact on safety.
Why is Sheriff Curran’s voice on this issue so important? He is an elected law man, directly accountable to the voters of a large county, where these cameras are becoming more prevalent. Because he is elected directly by the people, and not bound by a municipal board looking for RedCam money, Sheriff Curran can say “what needs to be said” – and say what other law enforcement officers would like to say, if allowed to speak freely.
I live in Lake County and agree with everything the Sheriff has stated. In fact red light cameras give law enforcement public relations more difficult.
Barnet Fagel
How refreshing to see a law enforcement officer back the popular voice of his constituents. Mark Curran has taken a bold and correct position on this. Fortunately no cameras are installed at Lake County owned intersections.
Now we need to remove the Red Light Cameras Lake Zurich’s John Tolomei and crew added this year:
http://volz.org/archives/46/LZ%20March-April%202009%20V3.pdf
Will new Village President Suzanne Branding do the right thing and rally the board to remove them?
Be sure to let them know what you think! Contact info is here:
http://volz.org/Directory.aspx?did=12