BOULDER — The days of radar-toting police officers on the lookout for speeders and red-light runners certainly aren’t over, but in Boulder automated cameras are now ticketing triple the number of drivers than patrol officers do in a year.
According to police records, Boulder officers wrote 17 percent fewer traffic tickets in 2009 than during the previous year. From 2005 until 2008, Boulder police wrote an average of 18,885 tickets per year. But last year, officers wrote only 15,304 tickets.
But drivers with a lead foot shouldn’t rejoice.
The enforcement gap has been more than filled by the city’s automatic red light cameras and speed-sensitive radar vans, which together generated 45,453 tickets in 2009 — a 16-percent increase over 2008.
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