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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Look, we have laws. All kinds of laws. We have fines for breaking those laws. Fines imposed after the act. Sure, we try to put measures in place to stop shoplifters from stealing in the first place. But if they do manage to steal something, we arrest them. Punish them. And hopefully that punishment deters the shoplifters, and others, from shoplifting in the future.
The point of speed traps isn't to make people slow down on that particular road at that particular time. It's to make them drive within the limit wherever they drive at all times. It's to break them of the habit of habitual speeding by imposing a cost. The fact that habitual speeders complain so bitterly about photo radar suggests that getting a ticket after the fact does, in fact, have some impact. Why it doesn't always change behaviour is a matter of individual psychology.
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Perhaps we need to get speeding Precrime involved.