Per Matt Lebash in The Daily Standard:
After such an excursion, one can see Chief Ramsey's point, that automated enforcement frees up police to carry out other important tasks, such as going on cable television to talk about how they've had no breaks in the Chandra Levy case.

Apparently, the red light cameras in DC are not the great hope for traffic safety in the future. It appears they are instead a revenue generation tool. I know I'm shocked and appalled.

Later on, in reference to DCs cameras: Not a single one of the city's 19 cameras was operating at one of its highest-accident sites. That about sums it up for me.