[Rick Lee]

Due to declining revenue, AZ has started putting cameras everywhere. You get a 10 mph buffer for the speed cameras and I don't know the rule on red lights. There's one intersection I use a few times a month where, if I'm the very first car at the line and floor it as soon as it turns green, I cannot get through it before it turns red. Luckily, there's no camera there yet. The speed cameras cause panic braking on the highway, which is just far more dangerous than anyone (usually everyone) doing 80 in a 65 zone. Today my wife slowed down for a camera and another car shot past her, triggering the flash. I wonder if they'll get her car or the other guy's. I've had to go through red lights on my bike when it's run on a ground sensor and there are no other cars anywhere. My bike with me on it does not weigh nearly enough to trigger the light. So, if there's no one around, I go. But I wouldn't do this where there are cameras.

Anyway, I hear you can request a "verified complaint" and will end up uncontested when you get to court. Other means of beating them are to ignore them and also dodge the summons servers for 120 days and they go away. Seems to me we used to have a right to face our accusers in court and I've beaten more than one ticket by disputing a cop's version of events in front of the judge. How does this verified complaint thing work?