“Nowhere was it more apparent than on Geneva Avenue between Prague Street and Brookdale Avenue, where one camera averaged 1,779 violations a day, according to the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency. Another camera on Bryant Street, between Second and Third streets, zapped 944 speeding drivers a day.”
Nearly TWO THOUSAND speeding violations in one day, in the heart of a major city. These people drive like morons.
This probably invalidates the tickets under the definition of a “crime” in basically every common law system. Crimes has to be willful.
Many crimes have “Strict Liability” where criminal intent is not necessary for one to be guilty.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strict_liability
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strict_liability_(criminal)
If only it worked like that in practice everywhere. It’s a pretty addictive revenue stream, and the district is incentivized to bend the rules to collect their money.
Of course, I write this from the US, which is currently at critical levels of internal corruption, so this could be a factor.
Yes, yet another way even the requirement to show up in court is used to suppress regular people.