Chicago Pondering Huge Camera Network

andyring writes "According to ABC7 in Chicago, mayor Daley rolled out plans to install thousands of video cameras in public places across the Windy City. In some ways, I suppose there are positives, as all the existing and future cameras are tied in to the 911 emergency center, allowing a 911 dispatcher to actually watch the area in question when someone dials 911. Dispatchers will be able to control some of the cameras, such as panning and zooming in."

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Re:to stop all re-threads here

[Anonymous Coward]

Hurray for technology making cops obsolete! They are a bunch of worthless assholes anyway. I've had many crimes against me that no cop can help with. If everything was videotaped those crimes could be solved.

Big brother isn't a bad thing for law abiding citizens in a democracy. If anything the laws will change more quickly to reflect reality instead of being about 100 years behind. If everything was videotaped the majority of people would all of a sudden be guilty of many crimes since they would be caught on video. Since it's the majority those laws would be invalidated. Majority rules.

Listen to a story of Mayor Harold Washington

[Wohali]

Perhaps one of the most beautiful programs to come out of NPR, This American Life did a fantastic bit about how people of all backgrounds in Chicago reacted to former Mayor Harold Washington.

Read & listen to the program at http://www.thislife.org/pages/descriptions/97/84.h tml

My father was on duty at the Northwestern Memorial Hospital ER when he came in on a stretcher; apparently, he was DOA, there was no obvious foul play. He'd been sick for years. Too bad, the guy really got things done. "Even though he was black." (Listen to the program.)