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top of any existing issues with live policing. As the University of Illinois-Chicago <br />study stated, “The volume of automated tickets issued, the spatial location of <br />cameras, and the structure of fines, fees and forfeitures may in fact reinforce racial <br />and economic inequities.” <br />Moreover, a significant number of high-risk roads designed for higher speeds are <br />located in minority neighborhoods, largely because of a long-standing lack of <br />investment in road safety infrastructure. Under prior legislation, the government <br />has been authorized to classify these high-speed thoroughfares as “safety <br />corridors,” where the speed limit may be reduced by as much as 12 mph below <br />the design speed. Automated cameras would then issue massive numbers of <br />tickets to residents in these low-income communities for traveling 11 mph over <br />this arbitrarily reduced limit, with the revenue used to fix the very problems <br />created by the government’s historic lack of investment. In that sense, minority <br />communities would suffer twice: first through disinvestment that produced <br />higher fatality rates, and then through the imposition of millions of dollars in fines <br />and fees to remedy that neglect. <br />There are better alternatives for reducing speed-related crashes without these <br />negative impacts, including roundabouts, speed humps or speed tables, traffic <br />circles, and other traffic-calming measures that do not require increased <br />surveillance to automate enforcement and issue more tickets. <br />Automated Enforcement is Bad for the City’s Economy <br />While some may relish the prospect of collecting millions of dollars in fine revenue, <br />that is not how these programs usually work out. After paying the vendor, <br />administration, and adjudication costs, the city receives only a small portion of the <br />ticket revenue. While millions of dollars may be extracted from the local economy, far <br />less actually accrues to the city. In addition to residents having less money to spend at <br />local businesses, it is well known that visitors who receive automated tickets often vow <br />never to return. <br />Further, AB 645 requires revenues to be used first to recover program costs, and cities <br />must also maintain their preexisting local funding commitment for traffic-calming <br />measures in order to remain eligible. Any excess revenue must go to traffic-calming <br />measures, with unused excess eventually reverting to the Active Transportation