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New York Post, January 25, 2026<\/p>\n

Team Trump moves to ban traffic cameras in DC \u2014\u00a0as NYC\u2019s set to quadruple the dangerous devices<\/a> <\/strong><\/h2>\n

The Trump administration may soon reduce highway robbery by 95% in Washington, DC. The Big Apple needs the same silver bullet because the city\u2019s drivers could speedily be victimized by the biggest bureaucratic looting spree of the century.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s Transportation Department proposes to<\/a> \u201cprohibit the operation of automated traffic camera enforcement in the District of Columbia,\u201d which would ban red-light, speed and stop-sign cameras. Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) is attaching a similar provision to congressional transportation legislation.<\/p>\n

The dispute over red-light and speed cameras goes to the heart of the question of how much harm politicians are entitled to inflict while they shake money out of citizens\u2019 pockets.<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

DC Mayor Muriel Bowser promised in 2014 to lower the traffic-fatality rate to zro within a decade. Her Vision Zero program slashed speed limits and imposed a dizzying array of new traffic-enforcement cameras.<\/p>\n

Bowser\u2019s program was a smashing success: DC government reveue from traffic-camera fines rose almost ninefold, from $30 million in 2014 to nearly $270 million last year.<\/p>\n

Regrettably, the number of traffic fatalities in DC doubled in the decade after Browser launched Vision<\/strong> Zero. Red-light cameras spark traffic collisions because drivers stop suddenly to avoid being fined. Six years after cameras were first installed in 1999, \u201cthe number of crashes at locations with cameras more than doubled,\u201d with 400 additional collisions per year, The Washington Post reported<\/a>. The cameras spawn similar havoc elsewhere. The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles reported that accident fatalities doubled at intersections with red-light cameras.<\/p>\n

DC turbocharged its revenue from speed-camera violations by slashing speed limits to 15 or 20 miles per hour in much of the city. The city also uses hidden cameras at stop signs. A single stop sign has generated more than a million dollars<\/a> in ticket revenue. Residents bitterly complain they get wrongfully ticketed unless they wait at least four seconds before daring to drive forward. Due process be damned: The DC inspector general found the automated ticketing system was so out of control that \u201cdrivers get speeding tickets for violations they don\u2019t commit and for vehicles they\u2019ve never owned,\u201d as The Washington Post noted<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Racial minorities bear the brunt of traffic-camera penalties even in cities with black mayors, such as Chicago<\/a> and Washington. \u201cResidents in black neighborhoods were<\/a> 17 times more likely to receive a photo [traffic-violation] ticket,\u201d per the DC Policy Center, even though black neighborhoods did not have higher rates of auto crashes. The National Motorists Association warned of automated traffic tickets, \u201cThe practical results for many poor people may be a lot like putting them in debtor prisons, unable to legally drive to work.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The DC government responded to traffic-ticket hardships by offering a \u201ccommunity service option\u201d where low-income traffic violators could pay off tickets by working for the city at the minimum wage rate. Did the city plan to put people on chain gangs to pay off their speed camera debts or what? Would there be bonus points for singing \u201cTake This Hammer\u201d in perfect harmony?<\/p>\n

\u201cCommunity service\u201d traffic-penalty gangs didn\u2019t burnish Bowser\u2019s image. Her government launched a new program last year to aid ticket victims not living in the city\u2019s fanciest neighborhoods.<\/p>\n

But there\u2019s a snag. Unless you\u2019re receiving food stamps<\/a>, the city won\u2019t reduce or waive your fines. That epitomizes contemporary social justice: Only people already collecting handouts get a free pass. The city has plenty of working-class blacks and Hispanics, but they\u2019re likely out of luck seeking relief from highway robbery.<\/p>\n

And the same peril will soon be multiplying in New York City. Thanks to Gov. Hochul, the Legislature in late 2024 entitled the city to quadruple the number of red-light cameras from 150 to 600 intersections. \u201cThe red-light camera rollout will happen fast<\/a> with 50 new cameras being activated at new locations each week,\u201d Power105.1 radio station reported in mid-January. One commenter retorted on Instagram: \u201cTime to take out my paintball gun.\u201d<\/p>\n

A major reason red-light cameras spur carnage is because politicians endanger drivers by shortening yellow-light times to boost ticket revenue. Numerous federal studies have shown that lengthening yellow lights is the most effective step to reduce collisions at traffic lights. But as long as no one is tracking the body count, politicians get away with brazenly betraying the public.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Actually, they don\u2019t always get away with it. The Post headlined<\/a> a 2012 report proving that many of the city\u2019s red-light cameras had far shorter yellow-light durations than federal safety guidelines recommended. Robert Sinclair, a spokesman for AAA, which produced the report, declared, \u201cThis is supposed to be about safety, not just raising revenue, and that\u2019s what it\u2019s become.\u201d The Post aptly labeled those short yellow lights \u201croadway robbery.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, New Yorkers have no assurance the same recklessness won\u2019t repeat with the new red-light cameras. The city bureaucracy denied it did anything wrong in 2012 \u2014 except getting caught. How many unnecessary car crashes and fatalities could occur if local officials repeat the same yellow-light switcheroos?<\/p>\n

\u00a0The Trump administration\u2019s proposal to ban automated traffic-enforcement cameras in DC should focus national outrage on camera-ticket regimes. The administration should deny all federal transportation funding to any locale, including New York, that knowingly sacrifices safety to fill government coffers. \u201cTaxation by citation\u201d is a license for\u00a0bureaucratic tyranny.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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