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by coffeecloud 684 days ago
Why is the solution to the abuse "don't use traffic cameras" instead of "hold people accountable for shortening yellow lights"?
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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)