Cameras on School Buses

http://blogs.suntimes.com/politics/2013/04/bus_camera_plan_passes_senate_despite_city_red-light_camera_scandal.html

I guess this doesn't really surprise me, but I wonder how far this city is going to go with these cameras.

First we had red light cameras that give the owner of a car a $100 ticket if the car isn't at least halfway through an intersection when the light turns red (not really what I would call running a red light).

Then they started testing speed cameras that could cover a vast majority of the city that will issue $100 tickets to the owner of a car that is caught going 5mph over the speed limit in "school zones" or "park zones".

Now we are putting cameras on school buses to issue tickets to cars that don't stop when the stop sign is out  as children are entering and exiting the bus.

I wonder why we have police anymore.  If people are actually running red lights, speeding when children are present, or passing buses when the stop sign is out and putting children at risk, those people should get a ticket and it should go on their driving record so if they do it multiple times, their driver's license gets suspended.  You shouldn't just get what is equivalent to a parking ticket (who cares who was actually driving the car) that doesn't go on your record as long as you pay it.  This is all about revenue people.  If it was about safety, we would get more police on the streets, getting reckless drivers off the streets.