Speed Cameras Not the Norm in Most of the US

It's now been almost 5 years since speed cameras were first authorized to go statewide in Maryland, and have been in DC for some time.  Because of this, it is easy for some Maryland residents to forget that most Americans have lived most of their lives where there are no speed cameras, and that in fact most of America still does not use them.

Right now speed cameras are used in 14 states plus DC*, leaving 36 states where they are not used at all.  States which do NOT use speed cameras are:

Alaska	Maine	Oklahoma
Arknasas	Massachusetts	Pennsylvania
California	Michigan	Rhode Island
Connecticut	Minnesota	South Carolina
Delaware	Mississippi	South Dakota
Florida	Montana	Texas
Georgia	Nebraska	Utah
Hawaii	Nevada	Vermont
Idaho	New Hampshire	Virginia
Indiana	New Jersey	West Virginia
Kansas	North Carolina	Wisconsin
Kentucky	North Dakota	Wyoming

* based on IIHS data

Two other states (Alabama and New York) permit speed cameras in only one city.  Most other states use them in only a very limited number of cities and towns, and only in specific areas.  In fact among the municipalities and counties which use speed cameras in the US, over 30% of them are located in Maryland, despite the fact that Maryland has less than 2% of the nation's population.

So the situation we have in Maryland, where the state endorses the paranoid position that people can only be "safe" if drivers are monitored at all times by a system of for-profit automated enforcement devices -- a system with no real due process and an extremely reduced burden of proof against the accused -- is in fact not "normal" at all.  Nationwide, it is the exception.