My city installed red light cameras without first checking their own county’s law that requires something like 70% of moving violation fines to be given to the school system.
They paid a contractor 70% to install, maintain and collect the fines. After a suit to challenge the legality of this was concluded the city had to pony up several million in taxpayer money to the school system and canned the cameras.
Sounds like your City has stupid politicians. Do you honestly think that we engineers make the original decision to start placing Red-Light-cameras out?