A Surveillance Camera On Every Chicago Street Corner?

Mike writes "Chicago Mayor Daley has stated that if his Olympic dreams come true, by 2016 there will be a surveillance camera on 'every street corner in Chicago.' Just like in London, elected officials all over America appear to be happily advancing a 'surveillance society' without regard for civil rights or privacy concerns. Ray Orozco, executive director of Chicago's Office of Emergency Management and Communications is quoted as saying, 'We're going to grow the system until we eventually cover one end of the city to the other.'" Chicago has been developing its surveillance network for some time, but it seems they plan to continue increasing the scale.

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Re:The cameras do nothing

[MrNaz]

"A" doesn't work.
"B" doesn't work.
Oh, I know! Let's try "A+B"!

Twit.

Mentally ill?

[transporter_ii]

I did a tiny amount of research on this, but I would love to write a book. I think Mayor Daley is mentally ill. He is the digital version of those people on those shows who pack one end of their house to the other with junk, to the point you have to walk through little trails to get to a room.

If you search for the term "digital packrats," you will find an acknowledgment of the problem.

I'm kind of one myself, but the difference between me and Daley is that I'm not on some kind of power trip, and I don't have unlimited amounts of taxpayer money.

I have some experience in Oil and Gas. Daley should get into that. He could make some companies rich in his quest to pull in useless data. In that setting, I wouldn't mind working for him.

As a mayor, with access to public funds, he should be removed.

Re:The cameras do nothing

[drew]

And if you really want to increase enforcement, then stick a cop, not a camera, on every corner.

You've apparently never had any meaningful interaction with the Chicago Police Department. I fail to see how this would help things. You heard about the large group of CPD / Cook County Sheriffs that were recently arrested in an FBI corruption probe? The ones that aren't power crazed or blatantly corrupt seem to just not care.

I'm sure there are some good cops in the city (although in the 8 years I lived there I don't remember ever encountering any, or meeting anyone who had) but if there are, they aren't in the right neighborhoods to make a difference.