San Jose California's NASCOP photo radar system may be on the way out, and that is a good thing.
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/16786000.htm
I don't like unsafe speeding, but I really hate it when the authorities use illegal means to enforce the law - as they did in San Jose.
What has amazed me for a long time is that the local media never said anything about the illegality of the Nascop program. Nor did the media (not even in today's article) reveal that the "Photo Radar Notification" the program mails out can be ignored - because it has not been filed with the court. (This is the same ruse that other CA cities use on red light camera tickets.)
The lessons to be learned here: (1) We can't trust the authorities to obey the law, because they think they are above it. But we already kinda knew that. (2) We can't trust the media to report about the authorities' tramplings of the law, if the illicit program is one the publisher thinks is "popular." Don't wanna upset any of those precious subscribers, ya know..
BT

