The city council of Kansas City, Missouri has entered into a contract with an Arizona company to have red light cameras installed at 12 intersections in KCMO. You can bet that when the money from those starts rolling in they will install more.
I would expect that other cities in both Missouri and Kansas will follow suit, especially once those cities see the profit margins on KC’s cameras. Even though these cameras are intrusive, fail to prove who is the true perpetrator of the red light violation, are capable of being wrong and cannot be cross-examined, I expect that the general populace will just shrug and start paying the fines. We are growing more and more comfortable with big government, and growing more and more comfortable sacrificing constitutional principles and individual rights at the altar of a false sense of “safety” that we have all but given up on a democracy by and for the people in favor of a top-down government to keep us all in line. At least the cameras will free up some police officers to go around and enforce the new smoking ban in Kansas City! Maybe now they will also have then manpower to actually send an officer to your house to make a report when you’ve been the victim of a property crime (they currently don’t do that in KCMO).