{"id":49401,"date":"2015-01-28T12:55:18","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T12:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/28\/waze-and-meanies.html"},"modified":"2015-01-28T12:55:18","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T12:55:18","slug":"waze-and-meanies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/28\/waze-and-meanies.html","title":{"rendered":"Waze and Meanies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police protests about how Waze makes them targets see highly disingenuous to me. It seems much more likely that the protests have to do with concerns that traffic ticketing revenue will drop if people know there are cops ahead and slow down. Which, of course, is in theory what the police should want<\/i> (slower traffic, greater safety, the whole reason they give speeding tickets in the first place), but they are perversely incented to maintain the metric of tickets written, as well as the revenue to cities and states which follow.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nIn Defense of Waze, Which Doesn’t Put Police in Danger<\/a><\/span>
\nThe traffic app does alert its users when a squad car is ahead–and many in law enforcement want that to end, so they’re pressuring Google for a change.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Police protests about how Waze makes them targets see highly disingenuous to me. It seems much more likely that the protests have to do with concerns that traffic ticketing revenue will drop if people know there are cops ahead and slow down. Which, of course, is in theory what the police should want (slower traffic, … Continue reading “Waze and Meanies”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2056,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/03\/20\/scameras.html","url_meta":{"origin":49401,"position":0},"title":"Scameras?","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 20-Mar-02 7:45am","format":false,"excerpt":"Traffic intersection cameras: freeing up police for more useful tasks, or Big Brother earning revenue for the city? 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