Editing Traffic enforcement camera (section)

===Surveillance===
{{Main|Automatic number-plate recognition}}
[[Police]] and [[government]]s have been accused of "[[Surveillance state|Big Brother]] tactics" in over-monitoring of public roads, and of "[[revenue]] raising" in applying cameras in deceptive ways to increase government revenue rather than improve road safety.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/miranda-devine/even-the-safest-driver-is-being-set-up-to-fail/2008/03/22/1205602736174.html|title=Even the Safest Driver is Being Set Up to Fail|author=Miranda Devine|date=2008-03-23|newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald|access-date=2010-05-05|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080430092218/http://www.smh.com.au/news/miranda-devine/even-the-safest-driver-is-being-set-up-to-fail/2008/03/22/1205602736174.html|archive-date=2008-04-30}}</ref>

Online websites, like Photo Radar Scam and BantheCams.org, have been created in reaction to the rising use of [[traffic cameras]]. Their primary goal, as stated by BantheCams.org, is to "educate and equip local citizens with a way to combat the abuse of power now being exercised by local and state governments with the regards to the use of electronic [[surveillance]] devices."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.banthecams.org/about-banthecamsorg.html|title=About BantheCams.org|publisher=BantheCams.org|quote=BanTheCams.org was created to organize, educate and equip local citizens with a way to combat the abuse of power now being exercised by local and state governments with the regards to the use of electronic surveillance devices.|access-date=2016-06-30|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151016193518/http://www.banthecams.org/about-banthecamsorg.html|archive-date=2015-10-16}}</ref>

Groups like NHTSA ([[National Highway Traffic Safety Administration]]) have encouraged the usage of automated [[speed]] enforcement to help improve general road safety and to decrease crash rates.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nhtsa.gov/DOT/NHTSA/Traffic%20Injury%20Control/Articles/Associated%20Files/HS810764.pdf|title=Demonstration of Automated Speed Enforcement in School Zones in Portland, Oregon|publisher=Westat, Inc.|access-date=2016-06-30|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160318211233/http://www.nhtsa.gov/DOT/NHTSA/Traffic%20Injury%20Control/Articles/Associated%20Files/HS810764.pdf|archive-date=2016-03-18}}</ref>

* A concern with replacing in-person traffic stops with automated enforcement, where drivers receive tickets by mail, is the lack of officer interaction during these incidents. When an officer pulls someone over to conduct a traffic stop they are able to look at the driver and for instance see if the driver may be impaired as well as looking at the car itself to see if a plain view search could be conducted. When this is taken away by a ticket through the mail someone committing a crime would not be caught in this incident as they would if they had gotten pulled over in person.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Cooper |first=Simon |date=October 2010 |title=Mechanical Law Enforcement: Speeding and Camera Technology |url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1350/jcla.2010.74.5.656 |journal=The Journal of Criminal Law |language=en |volume=74 |issue=5 |pages=409–414 |doi=10.1350/jcla.2010.74.5.656 |s2cid=144178573 |issn=0022-0183}}</ref>