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I've noticed it too. And it isn't just running it "by a little" where someone could theoretically talk their way out of a ticket by saying they mistimed the light. But I'm talking about really egregious examples where if the guy going the other way had been inattentive they would have gotten tboned.

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I think part of it is that we've just gone through about two years of nationwide, massive, consequence-free civil disobedience campaigns, watched people ignore public health mandates with impunity, and read reports of a handful of regions decriminalizing certain petty crimes. People take in this input and, somewhat accurately, determine that nobody is home at the police station and anything goes now.

There are probably multiple causes, malaise due to covid messing with our way of life, as you said unrest and civil disobedience. When the authorities have bigger fish to fry you can get away with a lot of small things. I get the sense of a general discontent with how things are going in general. And that feeds back into this.

This is a key part of it that I left out actually, the egregious nature of it. Interesting to hear you say this too.

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