A Surveillance Camera On Every Chicago Street Corner?

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday February 21, 2009 @01:17AM from the must-cctv dept.

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:Just like London by Anonymous Coward · 2009-02-21 01:32 · Score: -1, Offtopic

It's to monitor DISSENT, and nothing else. The government won't lock up criminals for any decent length of time, so even if you were stabbed in the street, and it was all on CCTV, the criminal would only get a year or two in prison, and then be allowed out to do it again.
Whereas, if you were to put up a poster saying something 'anti semitic' or, heaven forbid, anti muslim, or 'racist', you would be facing years in prison for a crime which NONE of the population had any vote on. These 'crimes' have been invented by the tyrants in power (the Jews...)
It's the JEWS, stupid.
Who benefits from this surveillance? Who's stealing your tax dollars in the U.S.? The JEW.