D.C. has an extensive network of traffic cameras, but out-of-state drivers can largely escape punishment because there is no agreement with Maryland and Virginia to force them to pay up.

Slow down, D.C.!

D.C. government workers also speed and blow through red lights while driving official D.C. vehicles, and they’re getting slapped with tickets for it.

Traffic cameras have always been good fodder for debate in the District, whether that’s between members of the Council, regarding former mayor Adrian Fenty’s plans to install them on the back of street sweepers, or concerning allegations that they are more prominent in neighborhoods with a high population of African Americans. But according to a recent study by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, they work: the IIHS found that after installing red light cameras, the District’s fatal crash rates at intersections with the devices dropped by 26 percent.

Photo by ep jhu Why hello there, Washington. Today the Washington Post offers up the post-mortem on Digital Capital Week. Stephen Overly’s findings sound a lot like what you hear after many geek tech conferences: These “iPhone-wielding innovators want to use their skills for social good,” he writes — as if, for the first time, web geeks decided they would no longer kowtow to entrenched, anonymous corporate Beltway interests. But when has it ever been…