The accuser is not a machine, but the police department using a machine. What's the difference between being caught on camera running a red light or being caught on camera robbing a 7-11? Would you suggest that cameras in stores should not be allowed?
anyone foolish enough to try to get one raised will be blasted for opposing public safety.
Well, then perhaps you don't have public support, which in case the speed limit should NOT be raised. Speed limits, especially on highways and interstates HAVE been risen.
there have been complaints that the companies that operate the cameras (who get a large cut of the ticket revenues) have tinkered with the timing of the lights to CAUSE more people to accidentally run them. Generally, this can be done very easily by shortening the duration of the yellow light.
I certainly wouldn't support any "tinkering". Are these just "complaints" or is there any proof?
Your faith in our government is quite impressively naive. Any time you give a politician a way to raise revenue, he will abuse it. Human beings work on incentives. I would have no problem with anything you said once they dissociate the fees from the revenue. What I mean that until the money collected does not directly go in the pocket of the collectors, I will not trust that the system is not being abused. It could be collected by the state or the federal government and the money could be received back with the criteria having nothing to do with how much was originally collected. That way, I would trust that the efforts by the police are being done to stop law breakers, not to raise revenue.