Dallas's red light cameras came under scrutiny yesterday during a meeting of the city's Automated Red Light Enforcement Commission, where commissioners wrestled with the concept of spending a lot to make a little. As in: The installation of the 66 cameras in 2007 -- and their maintenance since then, not to mention the salaries that go along with operating all of it -- cost the city more than $6 million each year. And the return on that investment? A mere $1.35 million.And since a Texas law enac
It's just a single line on the city's Automated Red Light Enforcement Commission's agenda for Tuesday's meeting: "Program Transition from PWT to DPD." But as it so happens, Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle tells Unfair Park, that transition -- getting the city's Safe Light Program out of Public Works and Transportation and into DPD HQ -- took place at the beginning of the month, as a result of the budget cuts and layoffs at Dallas City Hall. The DPD also took over parking enforcement (as in,
