THE TRUTH: Recording Commuters Will Cost City More Money

Edmund Ford, Jr. wants to monitor traffic by using cameras that read license plates placed around Memphis to catch non-residents coming into the city. Is it realistic, and is it too much of "Big Brother" watching?

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Tippa - 6/6/2012 3:46 PM

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I say hit them all with a 1% payroll tax. This will ensure payment and it will include anyone from MS and AR.

UnoHoo - 6/5/2012 6:22 PM

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More 'Hope & change', brought to you by Big Brother.......

Ralph Malph - 6/5/2012 4:06 PM

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Forget a 7 dollar inspection, enforce the insurance requirement. Make it hurt, and the air quality problem would evaporate like the losers driving sho don't need to be on the road in the first place.

ricochet1 - 6/5/2012 3:42 PM

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So, the inspection has nothing to do with safety or air quality, it's about generating revenue to pay for city roads & infrastructure. Correct me if I am wrong, but doesn't the Federal Regulation Mr Ford is relying on, allow the city to do this for "Air Quality"? Seems to me it's just another money grab. I live in the county but have to cross city lines just to get out of my residential area. Does that count as driving in the city. Or is he talking about downtown? Midtown, East Memphis? You will need more than 25 cameras buddy & a lot of new personnel to review the footage!

MrBill - 6/5/2012 1:38 PM

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YES.. Please keep all your Memphis's thugs in Memphis.. Dosen't sound so good now does it ????

mytown - 6/5/2012 12:56 PM

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Please just sit down and give it a rest Young Ford.

missy22 - 6/5/2012 12:09 PM

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Or maybe the county and surrounding cities could put up their own cameras and try to catch city residents sneaking out of the city. Make them pay their fair share! We can do that.