Originally Posted by
KraneXL
Probably because nobody has challenged it yet. It wouldn't be the first illegal or unconstitutional law that was put into place and people just paid the fine rather than challenge its legality in court.
Some laws are clever like that when they know nobody is going to challenge a law that would cost them ten times the money and their personal time to hire a lawyer to challenge it.
These laws are typically designed to focus on those with limited means. Police are also know to be selective on who they choose to ticket.
In Maryland we have automated speed camera generating tickets, run by private companies
These machines are filled with every kind of flaw and accuracy problem you can imagine. Not to mention the gross amount of flagrant fraud the program is filled with since a private company is given a financial incentive to issue tickets.
Baltimore had to shut it's program down after it was found to be giving speeding tickets to parked cars and stuff like that. (Temporarily. Then the same system went back online a year later with no changes)
But the system is rigged
You can easily beat one of these tickets in court. That's not the hard part.
But you can't sue the system and escalate your case to a higher court to get the entire ticketing system thrown out. Many have tried. But as soon as someone files suit the state or city dismisses the original ticket, removing any standing you have from being able to sue the system. So your suit is thrown out due to lack of standing (You can't sue someone who isn't causing you damages. If there is no illegal ticket against you, there are no damages and you have no grounds to sue)
Traffic tickets are a corrupt revenue stream that do little to make roads safer for anyone.
You want slower roads? Put in speed bumps. They are foolproof and 100% effective. But they don't bring in money.