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Feels the same as the state teaming up with a red light camera company for a cut of the tickets generated, no?

A financial incentive so perverse that you could imagine a locality shortening the yellow lights to create more offenders & revenue, at the expense of drivers’ wallets and sometimes even contributing to serious accidents[0].

It’s not surprising that local officials would be so corrupt, right? After all they are only human, just like the people in their prisons.

[0] https://ww2.motorists.org/blog/6-cities-that-were-caught-sho...



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