Many laws are ignored. The solution is not no laws.

The point is that we should just prohibit the cameras entirely, not play this game where we make rules about their use which will be ignored

Rules about their use will be ignored but rules about installing them won’t. Makes sense.

Yes, if the company that makes them is shut down there won't be any to install, and if they're banned but seen on the street they'll be easy to take down. Are you serious right now

Less so when it costs prosecutions. Cops collectively spend quite a long while reading people their Maranda warning for example.

Exactly. Laws get followed when there are likely adverse consequences from not following them. We don't need huge punishments, we need likely punishments.

illegally collected evidence is usually grounds for inadmission