Using "safety" as a ruse to cheat the public----Perfect enforcement: On the ground in the red light camera wars

Perfect enforcement: On the ground in the red light camera wars | Ars Technica:

MODESTO, CA—Speaking in his downtown office, Mayor Garrad Marsh told Ars that he has lots of questions for Redflex, one of the largest red light camera (RLC) operators in the United States.

....But he was still troubled by the focus on turn lanes and continued to look into the implementation details of the Redflex setup. 

Marsh found that "most of the tickets [we issue from red light cameras] are right-hand turn. 
It's illegal, it's dangerous, but it's not the 'fatal accident' type of turn.”

This was a pattern.
The cameras in Modesto are mounted across four intersections, but they are only set up to capture six precise situations.
As the Modesto Bee noted in October 2013, the cameras watch drivers who are:

• Turning left from eastbound Standiford Avenue onto northbound Sisk Road
• Turning left from eastbound Briggsmore Avenue onto northbound Prescott Road
• Traveling north on Coffee Road through Sylvan Avenue or turning east onto Sylvan from northbound Coffee
• Traveling north on Oakdale Road through Briggsmore or turning east onto Briggsmore from northbound Oakdale

In short, just two out of the six deployments are even designed to capture the most dangerous scenario worrying citizens and city officials alike: cars blasting straight through a red light at high speed.

“We're collecting $1 million from our residents and sending most of it to Arizona,” Marsh said, referring to Redflex’s American subsidiary located in the Grand Canyon State.
“I'm going: are we really making our intersections safer?
If it was $1 million and it all stayed in Modesto, I might not be so pessimistic or cynical.
And if it proves to truly produce safer intersections without having to utilize personnel to be there that aren't out there catching bad guys or patrolling.
I'm not guaranteeing that I'll vote against it or change, but I am quite concerned that it's not what we bought, and it doesn't do good for our local economy.”