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> So I strongly support red light and speed cameras, traffic calming, and physical pedestrian and bike barriers.

That's because you (naively) don't think it will be abused. You can easily find articles and news reports where they report shortening the yellow lights so that the cameras were profitable.

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=shortened+yellow+light+to+p...

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Why is the solution to the abuse "don't use traffic cameras" instead of "hold people accountable for shortening yellow lights"?

because people don’t disclose when they’re acting nefariously, and there are no automated systems monitoring that, so you’ve got an uphill battle to prove that it even exists as a problem let alone that someone did it intentionally, etc.

in short: because of the presumption of good faith and innocence on the part of the ticketing authority (and especially their agents, once it’s inevitably privatized etc)

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