LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — If you've driven on the streets of Las Vegas, you've seen people running red lights.

Whether it's impairment, impatience or insolence, failing to stop has had real consequences, and sometimes deadly ones.

That's one of the reasons a viewer named Nicole wrote to us to ask why Nevada doesn't use red-light cameras, which snap a picture of scofflaws and send them a ticket in the mail.

It's a common question, one that's been asked many times, by locals and lawmakers alike.

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Back in 1999, automated traffic cameras were banned in Nevada. Legislative committee minutes from that year show then-state Sen. Mark James, R-Clark County, warning about Big Brother.

"He urged the [Senate Transportation] committee to be careful to not set us on a path of compr

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