One is owned by the government. Another is owned by a private company that extorts motorists. These fines never reach the DMV unless you refuse to pay.
They are usually on the roadside in large metal boxes as opposed to being mounted on above the light signals.
Accidents happen all the time. Work trucks hit pot holes and paint splashes onto those cameras blocking the lens and flash.
Debris falls of trees knocking the cameras down.
Tea falls out of ships on rough seas in Boston Harbor. All kinds of accidents can happen.
Be safe out there.
Consider doing community outreach to aid the down and out in your community. Find your local crackhead/methhead and teach him interesting facts and trivia, such as that there's two and a half pounds of copper in those cameras.
There was a red light camera at a busy intersection in a neighboring town that is home to a large college campus. The thing lasted maybe a year before they had to remove it. The thing was rarely accurate and every infraction it tagged had to be reviewed by a local cop, and most tags were inaccurate.
The bigger problem was that since people knew it was there and were terrified of it, there was constant brake mashing and stopping short of the intersection, which caused way more accidents than it saved. Even at the best times, traffic was constantly backed up not only at that light, but any other light at a road that could be used to circumvent the fucking camera.
The way some of these cameras work is they demand the fine and threaten to pass it to the DMV if you refuse. Most people are cowards and or broke so they pay.
Americans need to grow a pair or balls, and brain and start dealing with these problems instead of crying about it on the internet and consuming goyslop.
I got a "ticket" mailed to me which had a link to visit to see video of me allegedly passing a stopped school bus with its stop signs out.
In my state, traffic on the opposite side of a physical median or barrier is generally exempt from stopping. So no crime was committed.
The "ticket" claimed it was written by an "officer," but it came from some corporation. I read it carefully. It never said I was due to appear in court, nor did I sign anything promising to appear in court. It said pay this fine with a credit card and that would satisfy the penalty.
I did no such thing. I threw it away and ignored it. Nothing ever appeared on my record, no warrant was ever issued.
Also, my vehicle registration allegedly expired in 2016 and nothing has come of that either. For 10 years, I've allegedly been driving with expired registration. I've never been pulled over or anything.
Government is a scam. Don't fall for it.
In Arizona if you get a citation in the mail you can ignore it and its up to the county to serve you. If you manage to evade them and dont get served after 30 days the ticket gets dismissed.
They banned all of those cameras in Texas a few years ago because of the private company problem you mention. It had gotten to the point that the county wouldn't even enforce the ban on re-registering your car because they decided it wasn't their job to do so.
I got one of those red light tickets, they provide you with a video. It showed me clearly stopping on a right turn red, but the car to my left running all the way over the crosswalk. There is zero due process. The Indian outsourced service you can complain to just says they are all legit. Your only other recourse is to pay so they go away or file a civil suit.
There's a lot of problems with running red lights, and I might would allow them to come back, but if-and-only-if the tickets are challenge-able in normal traffic court with normal protections of the law as if the ticket was written and delivered by an officer personally.
There was also a case of one city having been found to reduce the yellow light duration to dangerously low times below the general guidelines to induce more violations, and therefore revenue.
They reduced the yellow light durations and fucked up the traffic light timings across the entire state. The problem is they still have not gone back and re-timed the lights after the red light camera ban resulting in mass chaos.
Texas banned red lights but they are installing the flock cameras everywhere.
In my state, camera tickets don't mean shit, throw them in the trash, and they only mean something if they ever send someone to your door and you answer it.
I got a ticket from one these from Pennsylvania. Never been there in my life but was curious of the picture they took. It was obviously labeled California, another state I’ve never been to. They threatened to send it to the Pennsylvania DMV and I said go ahead. Nothing happened. Didn’t even get an infraction but I did get a rush of spam following that interaction. I think they just sell your data and you talking to them just confirms your info is sellable.
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