It has happened.
Typically, a municipality will address vandalism of their red-light cameras by installing surveillance cameras to monitor the red-light cameras.
For a LONG time, roughly 400 cameras in the UK are destroyed by various means, the most popular being throwing an old tire around it, filling the bottom with diesel and igniting it. It cooks it to a golden brown.
For a LONG time, roughly 400 cameras in the UK - Each year...