The St. Pete Times respective City Hall reporters in Tampa and St. Pete, the tag-team of Richard Danielson and Michael Van Sickler, have a story in Thursday's Tampa Bay Times regarding how those cities have fared since they've installed red-light cameras two months ago.

Based on statistics, the Tampa Police Department have targeting nearly twice as many violators as have their counterparts across the Bay, writing up 12,606 tickets in November and December, while St. Pete has issued out 6,338 tickets during the first six weeks of operation.

The cameras throughout the Bay and the country are extremely controversial, and perhaps not coincidentally, the St. Pete Police Department issued out a video to news agencies Thursday morning highlighting some of the greatest hits and misses, if you will, of red-light camera violators: