What Alameda Does About It, Plans To Do About It, And What They Can’t Do About It; Red Light Cameras Under Consideration; Deterrence Matters; More Traffic Officers To Be Added Soon; What’s A Warning Citation?, and more….
LISTEN TO THE ENTIRE AUDIO INTERVIEW HERE:
Interview and Photos by Larry Freeman
A FEW PICKS FROM THIS AUDIO:
“We are absolutely tracking the outcomes and the efficacy” of red light cameras in San Francisco and elsewhere where they are under consideration…What is that concern about having red light cameras? Is it being caught?”
“If a crime is committed, and we are trying to track the direction of flight or the path in which the vehicle …traversed through the city, that may be of evidentiary value,” with respect to what red light cameras, if approved and placed, could be used for.
“Front side windows cannot be tinted…. It costs to take the tint off, it costs to put it back on. But we have no way of tracking that ”
Of the imprinted fear of a seeing a motorcycle cop on our psyches: “I’ve been pulled over a few times as a police officer, and even now my heart races….”
When it comes to stop sign, traffic stops and citations in general, “there is a certain amount of deterrence that occurs…. I know that if I’m out there in my police car and they’re running a red light, they’re going to be stopped.”
When it come to a purported “direct correlation” between bad driving and crime, “from my twenty six years of experience, I know that it’s more complex than that. We did a 60 day period of increased stops and traffic enforcement and we looked to see what correlation it had to crime. It actually had……” (listen to the interview to find out!)
UP NEXT FOR POLICE POD 10: “Pretext Stops”, Car “Sideshows.” Clueless Pedestrians, and more. Stay tuned, Alameda (or get tuned, and tell a friend about this exclusive ANN feature !) DO YOU HAVE TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT/ ALAMEDA DRIVING STORIES TO SHARE? REACH OUT TO ANN THROUGH THE “COMMUNICATE!” BUTTON ON THE HOMEPAGE NAV BAR, AND SELECT ‘TELL ANN’
Please listen to the audio interview here to learn more about the foregoing and more:
