I used to live in ABQ so I'll tell you how they do it.lonewolf wrote:How exactly do you face your accuser when its a camera, the photo is sent to a processing facility, reviewed, and then sent on to law enforcement for issuance of a ticket? If I take a picture of someone running a red light and turn it in to police, wouldn't I have to appear? ...
The video is fed to a montitoring station that is manned by police. All the tickets are reviewed and signed by an officer before being sent out.
I used to work at a company right around the corner from one of the cameras and our employees were getting these tickets often.
When you receive one you can contest it and have an administrative hearing on request. The system is pretty fair.
Also, when you receive the ticket you get a password and you can watch the full video of you running the light.
Every time someone got a ticket and we watched the video, they did not contest it.
I object to them because the cities that use them state that they are for safety and as a byproduct they generate huge sums of revenue. That's bunk.
After they are in place for some time and the revenue decreses, suddenly it's about revenue.
ABQ is not going to run a deficit to the tune of 50K a month for safety for long.
That's probably 8 or 9 officers off the streets a year.