Chicago is considering the installation of HIGH-RESOLUTION SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS on street sweepers to automatically ticket every car that violates rules for parking on street cleaning days (in the same way that red light cameras ticket moving violators at intersections). Where does it end?
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I'm still waiting for the police unions haven't started protesting these types of items. The cameras eliminate much of the need for the traffic and parking enforcement officers. That will likely equate to lost jobs.
They're sleeping on these cams. In a few years when city's find they don't need the traffic and parking officers any longer the genie will already be out of the bottle.
It never ceases to amaze me that citys can find ways to pay for a camera to obtain money from their citizens, but can't seem to find the money to use cameras to protect the same citizens. Welcome to Corporate American!
Wayne Thompson
Cool! Cameras that protect citzens! Do they turn into big robots that crush, kill and destroy when a crime is taking place? :)
It's not money that keeps UK-style surveillance cameras unpopular in the US (look a the price of a camera verses the price of a beat cop it would replace and you'll see how the math works). The US simply draws the privacy/security line closer to the privacy end.
It'll end when people start obeying the simplest of laws! How can you complain about cameras everywhere? You should be following the laws. Big-shock: they're there for a reason!
Jack
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