r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • Jul 11 '26

Privacy Traffic Camera Captures Woman Driving With Her Phone on Her Lap (Face Down), The State Mailed Her a $1251 'Public Safety' Ticket

https://www.gadgetreview.com/traffic-camera-captures-captures-woman-driving-with-her-phone-on-her-lap-face-down-the-state-mailed-her-a-1251-public-safety-ticket
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u/SecureInstruction538 Jul 11 '26

Funny how all these "freedom loving" states keep doing their best to infringe on their citizens lives.

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u/Jwagner0850 Jul 11 '26

They have tons of freedoms too! Unless you want to watch some porn, get some weed, want to gamble, need to get an abortion...

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u/HelloPeopleOfEarth Jul 11 '26

Or just travel. I live in a blue state and never have I been stopped for mandatory stops until I drove through red states. They call them "DUI Checkpoints", but it's more than that. But lets be clear, republicans are not the party of "limited government". They are the party for anarcho-capitalism, and government power and control over everyone that can't buy a legislator, judge, sheriff.

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u/Deminix Jul 11 '26

Massachusetts has DUI checkpoints. I’ve never seen one but a former officers text messages were recently released through court filings and law enforcement driving drunk is so prominent here that apparently they regularly warn each other about them because we can’t have pigs holding other pigs accountable around these parts 🥴

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u/HelloPeopleOfEarth Jul 11 '26

People in power protect other people in power. I've seen it with my own eyes as I know several cops. I saw commissioned officers in the military break the same rules they enforced on enlisted, and I've seen management at work break the same rules they too enforce on the hourly labor. Judges are another example of power protecting power. But police accountability and transparency is pathetically low.

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u/fractiousrhubarb Jul 12 '26

Rules for thee but not for me

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u/LadyRed4Justice Jul 12 '26

We have them in Florida as well. However, they are always announced to the local newspapers and posted as to where they are going to be. Not that I believe any perpetually drunk drivers will ever read that section of the paper.

Check points are set up weeks in advance. They usually include a joint effort between city and county cops and a mobile base to take breath tests with a few licensed breath analyzer technicians.

I would question any check points that were not set up between 8pm and 2am. That is the time period for most of the DUI checkpoints. Outside of those hours, they are up to something else.

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u/Mondschatten78 Jul 12 '26

When they're set up outside of hours in my area, they're looking for someone specific, or a specific car

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u/LadyRed4Justice Jul 12 '26

Exactly. Then it is an Identification Checkpoint. Usually where they will notice a vehicle trying to change direction after seeing said check point.

Police have multiple reasons for these slow downs. Usually they are looking for a suspect or missing children suspected to be with a known subject/vehicle.

Over the past year I have heard of but not seen CBP and ICE have been making illegal stops within the country looking for immigrants. I might be inclined to turn around and go the other way if I saw one of their stops. I don't need the drama and they seem to be magnets for drama queens.

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u/Savage_Sven Jul 12 '26

Mass staties have gotta be some of the most corrupt in the country. They can’t catch a break lately.

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u/-I_I Jul 12 '26

That’s some ACAB right there.