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Feedback  For the first time in two years, Arizona's freeways
will not be surveyed by photo radar cameras.  The cameras went
out of operation on July 15 after Gov. Jan Brewer allowed the
state's contract with Redflex Traffic Systems to expire.  The
state set up the cameras to catch speeders in hopes that it
would help make their highways safer. However, critics claimed
they were put up to generate more revenue for the state. They
said the cameras are an abuse of technology and a way to give
the government more power. In the meantime, Arizona's Department
of Public Safety has sent out a warning to drivers that the lack
of cameras doesn't mean they can get away with speeding.  "The
high visibility program will continue and officers will be
targeting speeders because, let's face it, speeding is either a
primary or secondary factor in most fatal and serious injury
crashes," DPS spokesman Bart G