> Actually, don't most of the revenues from automated cameras go to vendors? Often yes. (I can't easily dig up broad data, but there are certainly individual e

> Actually, don't most of the revenues from automated cameras go to vendors? Often yes. (I can't easily dig up broad data, but there are certainly individual examples where this is the case.) My proposal still helps here though. These cities are willing to pay a bunch to the vendors because the remainder of revenue that they keep is "free". (It seems the cities often sign a sweetheart deal where the cities have their admin costs recouped first and then the vendors keep the vast majority of the revenue thereafter.) But if the cities can't keep any money, they don't have much incentive to send all this money to the vendors; it just pisses off their citizens.