Are we a city of 5 year olds? No. We aren't. We are adults. Adults who drive many miles per day for work and recreation. In all those miles, we are fine. We obey the laws of the road. Accidents happen. I'm not sure why your mentality is that we are all guilty all the time of something. That's no way to live, and I certainly don't want my local government, or ANY government for that matter, to treat me as presumed guilty before proven innocent. That's not how our country was founded. The more laws you enforce, the less free we all truly are.

The fact is, our traffic light system is time-tested and true. We've been using traffic lights in our country since the early 1900's. If you had available the historical data from then until now, one could extrapolate a very small percentage of accidents caused due to running red lights. Anyone who goes completely through a red light would have done so regardless of whether a red light camera were installed or not, so the accident would have happened anyway. So they serve no purpose other than to give us all guilty consciences, and to generate money for the city in an evil way. The City of Temecula doesn't do that, and they are thriving more than the City of Murrieta, so why is it feel we need to stick it to the citizens of our city? I have never gotten a red light ticket because I pay attention to what I'm doing while I drive. I do not text or hold a phone to my face either. Perhaps education on driver safety is lacking from our driver's education instructors, or better yet, we as parents are not educating our children and friends on good, safe driving habits? I would say let's point the finger at ourselves for not teaching better driving habits. Self governance is much better than having a government arbitrarily enforce law after law on us, until we truly have no civil liberties left.

I am proud to live in a city where the citizens have spoken with an educated mind, and have decided to remove the draconian devices from our roadways. If you want to live like that, I suggest you move to China, or the UK, where cameras record activity all over their cities, just like Orson Welles' "1984".