{"id":1449,"date":"2005-01-28T17:38:01","date_gmt":"2005-01-28T22:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2005\/01\/city_council_funny\/"},"modified":"2005-01-28T17:38:01","modified_gmt":"2005-01-28T22:38:01","slug":"city_council_funny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/01\/city_council_funny\/","title":{"rendered":"City Council Funny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night a local official said <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knoxnews.com\/kns\/local_news\/article\/0,1406,KNS_347_3504080,00.html\">this<\/a> in support of installing traffic cameras in Knoxville (to catch &#8220;red-light runners&#8221;):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Deputy Chief Don Green added, &#8220;We&#8217;re not trying to catch people, we&#8217;re not trying to punish people. We&#8217;re just trying to prevent accidents.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It may not be Mr. Green&#8217;s personal desire to &#8220;catch people,&#8221; but if the camera vendor gets a percentage of the fines, they&#8217;ll certainly have a desire to punish people.<br \/>\nA family member recently moved to a city with these cameras, and he received a ticket because the front of his car was a couple feet over the painted line when he came to a stop.  He said that the company running the lights gets at least 50% of the fines collected.<br \/>\nNope, no incentive there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/01\/city_council_funny\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to City Council Funny\"><p>Last night a local official said this in support of installing traffic cameras in Knoxville (to catch &#8220;red-light runners&#8221;): Deputy Chief Don Green added, &#8220;We&#8217;re not trying to catch people, we&#8217;re not trying to punish people. We&#8217;re just trying to prevent accidents.&#8221; It may not be Mr. Green&#8217;s personal desire to &#8220;catch people,&#8221; but if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1449","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}