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Except for the times when it's "malfunctioning"

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-red-light-camera-ticke...

If you search around, there's tons of cities that were caught manipulating the timing on the cameras to increase the number of tickets.

Are you going to call the camera into court for questioning? Are they going to let a third party audit the code that runs the timers?

Breaking any absurd law, by that logic, is "opt-in".

And it is.

Every single action you take is opt-in, right?

When a city prioritizes revenue over safety, everyone is affected. Even if you don't run a red light, you'll still be stuck in traffic when someone else crashes in the middle of the intersection.