Downtown Baltimore To Get Massive Surveillance Network

An anonymous reader writes "The Baltimore Sun has an article on the new 24-hour security cameras to be installed downtown and in the Inner Harbor. 'Under the Inner Harbor plan, the cameras would be able to transmit images to helicopters and, eventually, police cruisers....' How long until that ability is either abused or hijacked?"

Comments

Re:Interesting

[Tackhead]

>can you imagine people walking around who are forced not to engage in activities (through cameras), eventually those bottled up activities will explode as opposed to being released gradually.

I have trouble imagining that. What you say is plausible, but is not supported by any recently cited psychographic studies on large urban populations.

> People need avenues to release emotions, whether they are good bad or indifferent. If we force them to only release in their own homes, there will be no peer related checks and balances on them and people will gravitate towards every individual having their own (different) moral compass.

Not necessarily. First off, (twitch), I've already addressed the lack of evidence regarding your hypothesis regarding EEEEP! cathartic activity in the home. Even if I accept your hypothesis for the sake of arguFUCK YOUment, there are always peer-related GODDAMN CRACKHEAD SLASHDOT MODS checks and balances. Now if you'll excuse me, ASSHOLE , I have to go adjust the phase coil emitters on my tinfoil hat, clean the plant's litterbox, and water the cat.

Re:This will keep the ACLU folks busy

[TWX]

Then allow me to carry. If it's a known dangerous place and if I am in a position to need to frequent it, let me arm myself so that I might be able to deal with the situation.

Also, like I said before, put more police out. That's their job, to be Constables On Patrol, right?