YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio - It's been exactly one month since the Youngstown Police Department's new speed enforcement cameras and tablets have been in use, issuing citations.

Now there are early indications that it has been effective in slowing down drivers.

There's no actual statistical data to prove it just yet, but motorists on Interstate 680 in Youngstown are learning that slowing down could be a life saving lesson.

They're noticeably deciding to travel that 50 mile per hour speed limit.

That's because new speed enforcement cameras and tablets have been getting the message across that if you put the pedal to the metal, a speeding ticket will likely be in the mail.

So far there have been 1,539 police approved violations; 1,159 have been mailed out; and 380 more speeding citations will hit the mail on Monday.

Lieutenant Bill Ross is with the Youngstown Police Department and is the officer-in-charge of the traffic enforcement and accident investigation unit, "Based on my own personal observations, we were writing a lot more higher tier tickets when we started the program. By higher tier I mean more than 20 miles over the speed limit. A lot of the citations that we're writing now seem to be in the middle tier of the spectrum which is 13 to 19 miles an hour over the limit. So that and comments both from social media, calls into the police department, various other sources we gain intelligence from -- it does seem to have slowed down."

Lieutenant Ross says officers use the new speed enforcement cameras to zero in where they see the most crashes occurring, in school zones and areas where they receive the most complaints about speeders.

"The citations are starting to get mailed out. So we are starting to have the effect that we wanted to have in the beginning of being able to stop enough people consistently to get the message out that the speed limit sign is there for a reason -- their safety," Lieutenant Ross said.