Photo Enforcement Vendor's Survey Shows Huge Public Support for Speed and Red Light C

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Photo Enforcement Vendor's Survey Shows Huge Public Support for Speed and Red Light Cameras

By Ray Stern in News
Friday, Jan. 23 2009 @ 3:18PM
A survey commissioned by a photo enforcement vendor shows huge public support for speed and red light cameras in Arizona despite new pushes to end the programs. You can read the results for yourself in two PDF documents from vendor American Traffic Solutions (a.k.a. ATS) here and here. Because we're sticklers about such things, New Times also requested the list of actual questions that were asked survey takers, and you can read those here.
The gist of the survey is that anyone who thinks most people oppose photo enforcement is fooling themselves. As in past surveys, the new poll showed impressive numbers of supporters -- it's not even close. In nearly every category -- age, gender, political persuasion -- a solid majority want to keep both the municipal programs and the blanket of cameras put out by the state on highways and freeways.
The closest the survey came to revealing any widespread opposition of photo enforcement was in the pool of men under 55 years old -- that group is evenly divided on the question. The survey did, however, show that red light cameras receive far more support than speed cameras set up on a lonely highway in the middle of nowhere.
Of course, the legislative plan to ban the statewide program could proceed without public support. We put in a call to the main sponsor of the anti-photo-enforcement bill, Anthem Republican Representative Sam Crump, but he hasn't called us back yet.
The new survey makes the planned citizens initiative, on the other hand, look like it might be a big waste of everyone's time and money -- unless its backers can win hearts and minds between now and November 2010, when the election would take place.

[StlouisX50]

Yeah, like i believe that. How many on here were asked to take the survey?

[Maestro]

How did they managed only to get 100% of the register voters, considering that only 50% of the people who vote are register. also they seem to miss anyone who happen to work in the media.

So if you were not register and worked for the media you were exclude from the survey.

This was a survey design to show the politician they need to vote against the ban

Also notice how the question were asked, they ask if people want to stop traffic violation, then went on to ask if using auto enforcement was better then using police of course you would get a high response since people are tired of paying for police sitting on the highways when their house is being robbed.

Also, I thought AZ had a high % of retired folks, so what not more of them in the survey.