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    1. Thijs Niks‏ @thijsniks 9 Aug 2020

      Thijs Niks Retweeted Jarrett Walker

      Speed cameras are great but I do worry the US would just show its racism by picking inequitable locations for themhttps://twitter.com/humantransit/status/1292166171186225153 …

      Thijs Niks added,

      Jarrett WalkerVerified account @humantransit
      If you don't want police doing traffic enforcement, then you want more enforcement cameras. They don't see or judge you as a person. They only see the car and license plate. https://twitter.com/StreetsblogNYC/status/1292076513895034880 …
      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    2. Snuggie Deluxe‏ @Snuggie_Deluxe 9 Aug 2020
      Replying to @thijsniks

      Speed cameras go into places that have a high history of crashes and reported traffic incidents in that area. The idea is the number of traffic incidents in that area needs to be lowered. If we’re going off of data, how would that be racist?

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    3. Thijs Niks‏ @thijsniks 9 Aug 2020
      Replying to @Snuggie_Deluxe

      “If we’re going off of data, how would that be racist?” — oh oh, that’s one of the most dangerous sentences in especially the United States. Current data is generated by past (racist) decisions.

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    4. Snuggie Deluxe‏ @Snuggie_Deluxe 9 Aug 2020
      Replying to @thijsniks

      Yes and no; perhaps you can give me an alternate opinion that will increase my understanding of the situation. Every police department keeps records on the traffic incidents they respond to. If the goal is to cut down on car crashes, what’s wrong with analyzing traffic...

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    5. Snuggie Deluxe‏ @Snuggie_Deluxe 9 Aug 2020
      Replying to @Snuggie_Deluxe @thijsniks

      accidents and determining the hot areas that need policing (policing in the sense of further enforcement of traffic violations). Is this conceptually discriminatory?

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    6. Thijs Niks‏ @thijsniks 9 Aug 2020
      Replying to @Snuggie_Deluxe

      Just using hot areas as a place to put cameras is discriminatory. Enforcement is one of the tools that should be used to increase traffic safety.

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    7. Thijs Niks‏ @thijsniks 9 Aug 2020
      Replying to @thijsniks @Snuggie_Deluxe

      A historic underinvestment in calming streets, separated bike lanes, safe corners, etc, should not result in putting more cameras. Especially in the US, where fine revenue directly benefits the city or even the police department budget, creating strong incentives to tax the poor.

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    8. Thijs Niks‏ @thijsniks 9 Aug 2020
      Replying to @thijsniks @Snuggie_Deluxe

      Instead, the analysis should focus on: What is the best tool we have to increase safety in this area? And if the answer is speed enforcement, then placing cameras makes sense. But that should probably be your last resort.

      2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
    9. Snuggie Deluxe‏ @Snuggie_Deluxe 6 Sep 2020
      Replying to @thijsniks

      I still have a problem with this. I don’t see how speeding is discriminatory. Are you inferring that only poor people speed? Or are you trying to say that the placement of speed cameras is in poor communities?

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      Thijs Niks‏ @thijsniks 6 Sep 2020
      Replying to @Snuggie_Deluxe

      Speeding is the result of bad infrastructure, which America tends to put mostly in poor neighborhoods. You can’t fix that with traffic cameras.

      6:37 PM - 6 Sep 2020
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        2. Snuggie Deluxe‏ @Snuggie_Deluxe 6 Sep 2020
          Replying to @thijsniks

          Why isn’t speeding the result of an individuals carelessness and selfishness?

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        3. Thijs Niks‏ @thijsniks 6 Sep 2020
          Replying to @Snuggie_Deluxe

          There are whole books and university courses on that topic, but suffice to say that addressing individual behavior in the hope to see systemic improvements is missing the forest for the trees

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