those red light cameras are sugar daddies. They make that bread. Millions of it. They aren’t malfunctioning. They shorten the time on yellow lights to trap people. There are numerous studies that show that they actually cause accidents instead of prevent them. People slam on their brakes and get rear ended most commonly. A horrid scam.
It will be 39 years ago next month, while cruising the streets of Moline, IL, one night night with my future wife, that I rolled through a red on one of their busier streets. I immediately said to her, “wow that was a quick yellow!” , and at the same time made a quick scan of the intersection, hoping I would at least clear it before it turned green for the cross traffic (which is usually about a second after the red). Then I saw it. Sitting in a closed gas station was a squad car....
I was not happy. So, armed with a stopwatch and clipboard, I did some research, and found that the yellows on that street, where the posted speed limit was 35, were almost a full second shorter than other cities in the area with the same speed limit.
I fought it at court but the judge said he wasn’t responsible for the city engineering dept, and made me pay the fine, but didn’t have it put on my record, because I had a clean one at the time. I paid up, and moved on.