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 Davis, pop. 55,000, is 16 miles west of Sacramento.

Davis Docs Set # 1
Ticket Counts

Violations Recorded, Citations Issued, Affidavits Approved [4]

New 10-28-10, updated 1-12-12

Cam #
	First @ E Wbd	First @ E Wbd LEFT	First @ E Wbd RIGHT	Mace @ Chiles Ebd	Mace @ Chiles Ebd LEFT	Pole Line @ 5th Nbd	Pole Line @ 5th Nbd LEFT	Russell @ Syca- more Ebd	Russell @ Syca- more Ebd LEFT					[3]		Total Citations Issued as % of Events Re- corded	Total Violations Recorded/ Notices Printed [1] [4]
Aug05
Sep05
Oct05
Nov05
Dec05
2005
Jan06
Feb06
Mar06
Apr06
May06
Jun06
Jul06
Aug06
Sep06
Oct06
Nov06
Dec06
2006	256 106 (33)	674 281 (81)		97 5 (0)	952 97 (7)	32 4 (0)	35 6 (0)	747 207 (57)	261 116 (34)								3054 822 (212)
Jan07
Feb07
Mar07
Apr07
May07
Jun07
Jul07
Aug07
Sep07
Oct07
Nov07
Dec07
2007	342 88 (30)	813 363 (112)	16 11 (3)	118 11 (5)	730 176 (44)	75 28 (10)	93 19 (4)	960 265 (73)	209 33 (7)								3359 994 (288)
Jan08
Feb08
Mar08
Apr08
May08
Jun08
Jul08
Aug08
Sep08
Oct08
Nov08
Dec08
2008	232 44 (11)	807 393 (108)	28 8 (2)	42 4 (2)	48 3 (2)	81 24 (6)	83 11 (2)	912 296 (80)	99 34 (6)								2332 817 (219)
Jan09	15 2 (0)	45 17 (1)	1 0 (0)	7 1 (0)	1 0 (1)	2 2 (0)	8 1 (0)	34 14 (1)	10 4 (0)								123 42 (3)
Feb09
Mar09
Apr09
May09
Jun09
Jul09	14 3 (0)	56 26 (0)	0 0 (0)					89 49 (0)	6 2 (0)								165 79 (0)
Aug09
Sep09
Oct09
Nov09
Dec09
2009	220 41 (16)	661 323 (107)	5 1 (2)	11 1 (1)	3 1 (1)	14 6 (2)	16 4 (0)	851 468 (132)	131 52 (14)								1912 897 (275)
Jan10	10 2 (0)	43 22 (0)	0 0 (0)					67 36 (1)	4 3 (1)								124 63 (2)
Feb10
Mar10
Apr10
May10
Jun10
Jul10	7 1 (0)	37 10 (0)	2 0 (0)					77 39 (0)	7 1 (0)								130 51 (0)
Aug10
Sep10
Oct10
Nov10
Dec10
2010 [7]	116 32 (11)	421 189 (54)	7 0 (0)					640 359 (98)	216 32 (14)								1400 612 (177)
Jan11
Feb11
Mar11
Apr11
May11
Jun11
Jul11
Aug11
Sep11
Oct11
Nov11
Dec11
2011
[8]	First @ E Wbd	First @ E Wbd LEFT	First @ E Wbd RIGHT	Mace @ Chiles Ebd	Mace @ Chiles Ebd LEFT	Pole Line @ 5th Nbd	Pole Line @ 5th Nbd LEFT	Russell @ Syca- more Ebd	Russell @ Syca- more Ebd LEFT					[3]

This table made by highwayrobbery.net, using official monthly tabulations of citations actually issued.

Official tabulations, 2005 -2006 Warning Period (Phase 1)
Official tabulations, 2005 -2006 Warning Period (Phase 2)
Official tabulations, 2006, Mar - Jun
Official tabulations, 2006
Official tabulations, 2007
Official tabulations, 2008
Official tabulations, 2009
Official tabulations, 2010

  The Davis cameras are operated by ATS, using Nestor software.

[  ] indicates a footnote.
[1]  Totals are as provided by the City.
[2]  YTD = Year-to-date total.
[3]  Un-used columns are to allow for later expansion of City's system.
[4]  Any figures in red type (or, if you are looking at this table in black and white, the upper figure when there are two or more figures in a cell) are what Nestor calls Violations Recorded, or all incidents recorded by the cameras, and due to time limitations
may have been posted here only for selected months or locations.  If there is sufficient public interest, the remaining months
will be posted.  The figures in black type are what Nestor calls Citations Issued, and may be the sum of genuine
citations issued (those filed with the court) plus any Nominations mailed (not filed with the court, a.k.a. Snitch Tickets).
Any figures in blue type (and in parentheses) are what Nestor calls Affidavits Approved, which is believed to be
 the number of real tickets and any Nominations (Snitch Tickets) where the initial recipient provided the identity of the driver.
Special note, 1-12-12:  For an unknown reason, in the official tabulations (Nestor spreadsheets) the monthly figures for Affidavits Approved do not add up to the annual totals show there.  We are inquiring as to why.
[5]  Intersection-by-intersection data for these months has been received but has not yet been posted to the table above, due to time limitations.  It is available at the links given above.
[6]  The info about the direction of enforcement (north, south, east, west, and right or left) was provided by the City.
[7]  These figures cover 9 months.
[8]  The title bar has been repeated solely for the convenience of the reader - there is no difference between it and the one at the top of the table.

Davis Docs Set # 2
"Late Time" Tables

  The City provided tables of Late Times, etcetera, for all  of its cameras.
These tables track violations recorded, and in parenteses, tickets issued.
Where there is a large number of long Late Time violations, it is believed to indicate heavy ticketing on right turns.



The picture above is an example of a portion of the table, from another city.

2006
2007
2008
2009
2010

  Late Time info is available for more than forty other cities - see the list of cities in the expanded version of Defect # 9.

Davis Docs Set # 3
The Contract, Etc.

2005 Contract and 2009 Amendment

This list of contracts and amendments may not be up-to-date - there could be a contract or amendment later than the ones listed above.

Davis Docs Set # 4
Info on DPD Site

I cannot find any red light camera program info on the police department's website.

Davis Docs Set # 5
Are Late Times Secret?

Davis doesn't print the Late Time on their tickets, even though their Nestor system clearly has the capability to do so.


(From sample ticket at the end of a Nestor brochure.)

If you phone the DPD to ask what your Late Time was, they may insist that you come in to the police station.

Nearly every other city that I know of prints the Late Time somewhere on their tickets (even though it can be hard to read at times - see the big How to Read Your Late Time box in Defect # 7 on the Home page).   Davis' motive not to display it could be so that they can cite for very short Late Times (like 0.1 second) without a public uproar (including criticism by judges) about "Mickey Mouse" tickets.  Another possible motive could be to grind you down, make it harder for you to fight your ticket.

If you want to know what your late time is, I suggest that you call any of the following at the City:
The Mayor
The Police Chief
The Police Department Non-Emergency Line
Alternately, you could submit a Discovery letter to get a copy of the violation video, then review that frame-by-frame, on your home computer.  See Getting Records for how to do a Discovery.

Davis Docs Set # 6
They've Known All Along That the Contract is Illegal

From Davis Police Chief Hyde's staff report presented at the Aug. 1, 2005 council meeting.