AURORA | Aurora police are asking city council for unmanned cameras and radar devices to snag speeding violations, reigniting a debate over the use of traffic cameras in the city.
Police Lt. Chris Amsler of APD’s traffic division told city council members at Monday’s meeting that the change is needed because the department has struggled to hire enough officers to regularly patrol for speeding on Aurora streets.
“In the past, we had manned vehicles, and in the past, we had issues with staffing and retaining employees to operate those vehicles,” AMMM said. So this ordinance change would allow us to have unmanned devices that would capture speeding violations.”…