A couple of years ago there was a big bruhaha here about the cameras. Mostly steming fromt he fact that the outside contractor was profiting from them.
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The Judge Ronald Styn in San Diego ruled that a public agency, not a private company, should be more in charge of the red light cameras. "The court sees no difference between a contingent fee to a private corporation and a contingent fee paid to an individual," Styn said.
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This article is saying it cut down on accidents though -
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The cameras have an upside, however. Statistics show that where cameras have gone up, crashes have gone down by 35 percent. "The judge said that there wasn't any problem with the system itself, with the cameras, how they work," said San Diego City Attorney Steven Hansen. "He said all that was fine. If there would have been city employees doing it, he would have let the evidence in."
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http://www.calweb.com/kxtv10/news-st...RED-LIGHTS.htm
They took all of them out for a while but they're starting to come back. I don't have a problem with them but in one particular intersection near my house where they were installed, the intersection gets backed up as people slow to turn into a shopping center. You could enter the intersection on a green but get stuck and the the light would turn then flash you were caught.