- Culture - Jalopnik Investigates ## These 15 States Don't Have Red Light Cameras, Here's Why Red light cameras are terrible! Before we show evidence of why this might be true (or false), you need to know that states that are con don't always use the word camera in their legalese, nor do they all have outright bans on the use of cameras or other readers for, say, toll collection or speeding. As for why there are red light cameras, way back in the 1990s and early 2000s, before we had the staggering number of Flock cameras dotting the U.S. highways, states like California found remote…