John Standing is an idiot. He has never been a cop, never involved in police laws - yet he is some how an expert of traffic policing.
There was once a specific police traffic branch in WA.... there were lots of coppers on the road - on bikes and in cars. There were 271 bike police - now there is 90 odd. When the Police Traffic branch was in action WA had the lowest road toll on record. This was disbanded - now cops are roustabouts - they are expected to do everything and with over 3000 laws to uphold - its not an easy job. When the traffic branch was in action - all these coppers did was traffic, there were heaps of cop bikes on the road..... now how often do you see them? These guys knew what they were doing... they also would stop some of you bitching about how cops don't know what they are doing when they give out defect notices. These coppers knew... cause this was thier sole job - traffic.
Yet somehow knob jockey's like John Standing think that taking the cops off the road and putting more cameras out there saves lives. How does a camera save a life? Does it catch itdiots doing burnouts?, does it catch idiots illegally racing? does it catch idiots going sideways around corners? NO! This is what kills as well as speed. Irresponsible unsafe driving.
The answer is not confiscation... we should look to victoria laws. P platers are limted to what power thier car can have.. they can't buy high performance vehicles etc (I know some ppl on here are P Platers). If you notice on the TV - its young males driving hotted up commodores etc. Doesn't this ring alram bells for anyone sitting up there in East Perth??