I understand your emotion I disagree. Public policy -- much less laws and regulations -- cannot ethically or morally be supported, implemented or enforced based on your simplistic rationale.
The Confrontation Clause grants criminal defendants the right to be confronted with the witnesses against them.
Since it is a camera and not a person that witnessed the offense, such violations generally cannot be considered a criminal offense.
The ticket is issued to the owner of the vehicle, not to the person driving it, leaving a lack of certainty as to the identity of the offender.
Just last week, a red light crasher was about to T-Bone my car. Only reason the crash did not happen was my quick reaction and good peripheral vision.
I oppose almost everything which expands the gov’t. But for reckless drivers, such as I ran into last week, there is no other remedy. A traffic cop cannot be present everywhere. Which is why I am against hand gun restrictions for home defense because cops won’t be there instantly to help when one is facing a home invasion.