Washington DC Choosing Revenue Over Ethics? Refuses To Refund 14,000 Invalid Speed-Camera Tickets

The efforts of a D.C. police sergeant to force a refund of $1.8 million in allegedly invalid speed-camera tickets represent just one aspect of what he says is ailing the District’s automated speed-enforcement program.

But so far, according to Metropolitan Police Department Sgt. Mark Robinson, police officials and city leaders have turned a deaf ear to his concerns, despite their being sustained and his designation as a whistleblower.

After he successfully challenged his own citation, Sgt. Robinson’s charges this week targeting 14,000 defective speed-camera tickets from the Third Street Tunnel drew widespread attention from the public, consumer advocates and the media, yet D.C. officials have stayed mum about these and other concerns long expressed by the 22-year department veteran.

And documents obtained by The Washington Times from inside the program, which is run by civilian Lisa Sutter, show that defective tunnel tickets are merely the latest sign of dysfunction and attempts to obscure it by the program, which many see as a cash cow more than a public-safety unit.

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PUGPROUD - 1/7/2013 7:45:48 PM

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There are givers and takers in life....governments take, take, take !!!!

MBCLS07 - 1/7/2013 11:17:20 PM

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Unfortunately, most politicians in this country exist primarily for the purpose of finding ways to extract more earnings from private citizens. This egregious case of abuse and corruption by DC politicians (how appropriate) is just the latest example.