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Houston accidents increased after installing red light cameras

There are two kinds of stories routinely published by the MSM around the New Year that both annoy me: Fluffy pieces written weeks earlier for publication while the reporter is gone, and stories that officialdom wants buried and thus releases around the slowest newsday of the year.An excellent example of the latter may be found in a Houston Chronicle story published yesterday revealing that traffic accidents in Houston increased after the installation of red light cameras ("Was red light camera study flawed?," Jan 1).While not long ago, the Chronicle touted the results of a much less rigorous study uncritically, in this case, where the results do not support red light cameras, the whole story was centered around claiming the research methodology was flawed...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on January 02, 2009 (boomark / email).