[bobthepanda]

You have to realized that New York City, as a polity, is very far from American norms.

To start off with, the majority of households in New York City do not own cars. New York has been consistently electing anti-car culture politicians for almost two decades now. And New York has a sizable contingent of people actively demanding red light cameras and speed cameras. Not to mention that New York already effectively has a surveillance network anyways, and yet that doesn't seem to fall afoul of the existing laws and rights.

If the laws are so terrible than they can be repealed. But the solution is to not stop enforcement of laws on the books in total.