ELI5 – Why did they remove the red light cameras?

Before anyone annihilates me, I know they were faulty/inconsistent as well as privately owned and mostly kinda scam-ish but the amount of shitty drives in this city has increased at an insane rate the past 2-3 years. I see people running red lights and stop signs EVERY.SINGLE.DAY… Reckless driving has gotten outta hand and this city is too damn big for cops to truly cover it…Wouldn't cameras help deter these assholes? I don't really know what could be done to stop this madness but damn, every day I routinely avoid accidents cause assholes are driving like s**t and looking at their phones.

I'm very stupid so please educate me on why the cameras were deemed so bad and what could be done to make driving in this city less stressful. I just spent 2 weeks in Las Vegas and I swear driving there was a breeze compared to Houston.