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I wonder if this will happen here too…

The red light cameras in Minneapolis are coming down. I’ve long said red light cameras are borderline illegal. This gives precident to sue the city for any money lost due to red-light tickets as well as increased insurance premiums. Hopefully, the days when the city can just set one of these things up and watch the money roll in are over.

On a related note, if you intend to park dowtown in the forseeable future, make sure you keep feeding the meter. Studies have shown that parking ticket enforcement increases as other city revenue decreases. The same can be said for the ratio of warnings to citations issued for minor traffic infractions.

Who knew law enforcement couild be so profitable?

South DaCola email box; The RNC journalists arrests

Brian from MPLS sent me this about his experiences;

 

Here’s something I put up on the RNC arrests of journalists.

 

http://liberalmediaelite.com/?p=792

 

The site may look familiar. There still a lot of things that are being sorted out through this. I did go to a forum between journalists, cops and the city of St. Paul. I asked the Asst police chief of St. Paul why some journalists were released at the scene and others were sent downtown. He said there was a “gap in communication.” Interesting….

 

This post points to two more stories of journalists in the same situation.

 

http://liberalmediaelite.com/?p=830 they are much more interesting than mine.