Exposing Chicago's Secret War on Poor People

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Illinois Policy Institute Vice President of Marketing Austin Berg joined @wgntv to discuss the Institute's new report on Chicago's speed camera cash grab.

[illinoispolicy]

Have you been hit with a ticket from a speed camera?

[tommartens]

I don’t like speed cameras either. To call the fines regressive and targeting poor people is political theater.

[fern]

The best minds in the country are working (funded by the Police, the municipalities) on "how to extract more taxes from citizens", it is rewarding, easy work, no competition from China or others... This phenomenon is inescapable.

[vaevictis_]

Yet, taxes keep going up with all this revenue coming in

[arritasanchez]

In Atlanta it 11 over …6 over is egregious!

[mattf]

Socioeconomic status, age, or ethnic-racial identity are not factors to how much pressure your foot puts on the accelerator pedal.

[eyelovecolorado]

More tickets to come because they need $700 million to build that Obama library on the south side. 😂