And now the camera companies are cropping photos to remove other cars, and alignment marks on the roadway, killing any chance you have of fighting it like you did.
DC, Maryland: Speed Camera Firms Move To Hide Evidence
About the officers dog in the fight. He cares about his equipment being accurate, and being able to prove in court that he clocked you as required by law. But he has no fiduciary interest in the outcome. Neither does the state, since they lose money on traffic tickets written by a $60K a year cop sitting in a $60-$70K cruiser writing tickets.
As for them being rigged, if the citizen cannot get the evidence they need to clear their name, if there is no way to validate that the machines are properly set up and calibrated, then it doesn't matter.
In MD, for instance, there used to be three decimal place timestamps, til folks used those to successfully fight tickets. then the pictures mailed out suddenly dropped to one decimal place. The basic point is that enforcement for profit is a bad idea, that breeds corruption.
