Arizona DPS Jan Brewer Speed Camera Fraud Waste my time and money! Jan Brewer is a discrace for letting this go on!!! Phoenix Arizona
Today is March 22nd 2009. I just checked my mail and found a ticket from Arizona DPS. The car in the photo is clearly me, and clearly my car. The date of the claimed incident is 2-15-2009 (a month earlier) The charge is Excessive Speeding, a CRIMINAL not civil ticket. and has a fine of about $375, their site says. I believe that it was a photo van that took the photo. My speed is clocked at 88MPH. Let me say that again 88MPH!!!! in a 65MPH zone. This was on I-10 and 40thST just after 2pm.
Now let me say I NEVER EVER EVER EVER would drive my car that fast, especially on a crowded freeway in the middle of the day next to a photo enforcement van. I drive generally on cruise control at 65MPH. Better yet there is a 7 second video of my alleged speeding you can view. A truly wonderful video since it clearly shows my car in the right 2 lanes (I was signaling and moving right) driving at a normal speed, in fact in the video you see a car come from behind and is passing me in the lane next to me. HE was going faster than me, but I still don't believe either of us were going 88MPH. That is ridiculous, and I would be offended at anyone who would drive that fast.
I am outraged at this and now think that any and ALL cameras in Arizona should be pulled down immediately. IT IS FRAUD BY OUR OWN GOVERNMENT!!! These were put here under the assumption that they are 100% accurate and there will be no errors. How else can you justify such an outrageous action by our state. False tickets! Now I have to go to court and plead my case and waste my time and money going to south Phoenix (45mins from my house) to show what is an obvious malfunction of their crappy camera system. I am so outraged to get ripped off by my own state! The state is suppose to protect you from fraud not cause it!
Our Governor Jan Brewster seems to know these cameras don't work but has done nothing to get them taken down! And why??? Because they are greedy and don't care if things work right or not, just as long as it makes them money. Mrs. Brewster, You should be ashamed of yourself for letting this injustice and fraud go on in your state and mine! OH I almost forgot... AS A FAIL SAFE FOR THE CAMERA SYSTEM my ticket states. " I certify that I have reasonable grounds, and do believe,based on my examination of digital images and data associated with this violation, that the person named herein committed the act(s) above. And it has some guys name there. So some guy looked at this (or so it claims) and though I was doing 88MPH. Here is a link to the video, you tell me. I WANT ACTION!!!! Arizona called me a criminal speeder for driving the speed limit. Who is the real criminal?
In the video I have it replay several times at full speed, my car is in frame for about 3 seconds, and the car that comes from behind me is just about passed me at the end of the video
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Dizzy
Mesa, Arizona
U.S.A.
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7 Updates & Rebuttals
Flynrider
Phoeix,Arizona,
U.S.A.
Points
#8Consumer Comment
Mon, March 30, 2009
What you read from DPS is correct. They do add points for 20+mph over, but in order to do that, they have to prosecute you crimininally (which the County Attorney refuses to do). I think the worst you'll be on the hook for is the fine.
Good Luck.
Dizzy
Mesa,Arizona,
U.S.A.
Thanks for watching!
#8Author of original report
Fri, March 27, 2009
I couldn't believe I was the lead story. The reporter told me this was a hot topic. The only thing though is I read from DPS that they add points to your record for criminal tickets (above 20 over) or a ticket in a school zone. Now I need to find someone that can analyze my video and prove my actual speed. I'm thinking maybe going to ASU or something like that.
Flynrider
Phoeix,Arizona,
U.S.A.
Saw you on TV
#8Consumer Comment
Wed, March 25, 2009
I was watching TV last night when I heard a news teaser about somebody who was tagged by a speed camera doing 88 in a 65. I was thinking, "Hey, I just replied to someone similar on ROR today". As soon as they mentioned the You-Tube video, I knew it must be you. I was impressed that they even set you up as the lead story, where usually they bury stories like these well into the newscast. You even beat out Barack Obama's news conference. Well done!
I heard that you have a court appearance scheduled for the ticket. Please keep us updated on the progress. It looks pretty certain that you won't be criminally prosecuted, but there's still that civil fine to deal with.
By the way, the news report indicated that along with a $300 fine, you'd have to worry about insurance going up. I don't think that's the case. The speed camera legislation is pretty clear that they can charge a civil fine, but no violation will go on your driving record. In other words, they make it clear that this is a revenue generating scheme, rather than a traffic safety program.
Best of luck and keep us posted.
Dizzy
Mesa,Arizona,
U.S.A.
NBC 12 reports on my ticket!
#8Author of original report
Wed, March 25, 2009
Today Veronica Sanchez on NBC 12 in Phoenix came to my house to do a report on my bogus ticket. Thank you for listening :) Several other stations are also looking into this, but channel 12 took this extremely quick and had this aired the same night. Once again thank you! Nice to know there are still some people you can turn to. The video is available on the channel 12 phoenix site, and also through my youtube account just like the original speed video.
Youtube user name: dizzyntara
Video name ch12 does a report on my bogus photo speeding ticket
Flynrider
Phoeix,Arizona,
U.S.A.
You may be in luck
#8Consumer Comment
Tue, March 24, 2009
Since you're in Maricopa County, you may have dodged a bullet. On Feb 23rd, County Attorney Andrew Thomas announced that his office would refuse to prosecute any criminal speeding cases where the only evidence was speed camera data.
I suggest you give the County Attorney's office a call and find out the status. More recently, the state AG issued an opinion that speed cameras could be used to prosecute criminal speeding violations in AZ, but I believe Maricopa County is still refusing to prosecute.
Dizzy
Mesa,Arizona,
U.S.A.
Way to see speed video
#8Author of original report
Tue, March 24, 2009
You can go to Youtube. My user name is dizzyntara and the name of the video is speedvideo
I'm really worried that the judge will not hear me or even the dps video since they hate to admit these cameras don't work. I'm sickened by this and don't know what to do, or how to for sure win this in court. Seems easy, but I know a few people who have got stuck in intersections and the light turn red, giving them a ticket. Everyone says the same thing when they go to court. Judge tells them "The cameras are never wrong."
So once again go to youtube
Username: dizzyntara
Vide name: speedvideo
Dizzy
Mesa,Arizona,
U.S.A.
Trying to post video
#8Author of original report
Tue, March 24, 2009
This is the embedded video of my camera ticket. Hope it works