California police issued 13,000 red-light tickets, but say cameras recorded far more violations

Manteca’s red-light cameras are catching more violations than the city tickets.

Manteca police say they’ve issued 13,367 citations this year, but that number reflects only the violations that made it through the department’s review process, according to CBS News.

Here’s what to know

The police department has “given out 13,367 actual citations,” a figure that leaves out camera-caught violations that never resulted in tickets.

Not every recorded incident makes it that far, Sergeant Stephen Beermann said, because staff must review the case, verify it, and get it mailed within a deadline. “We have a certain period of time that the violation has to be verified and sent, and if they’re not done in that period of time, then the violation is not issued,” he said…

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