Every large city is short on law enforcement officers. They cannot possibly be everywhere 24 hours a day. If placing cameras on the streets of crime ridden areas helps curb crime or help convict criminals, so be it.
If I read this article correctly, these cameras would be on public streets. There is no expectation of privacy there.
Please don't be so quick to surrender your valuable Fourth Amendment rights as guaranteed by the Constitution.
~ Blue Jays ~
Why should they be "everywhere 24 hours a day"? What is this, the Soviet Union with two armed guards on every street corner? Giving up freedom for a false sense of security is a very bad idea. These cameras will only catch petty crimes, the sort of things we don't need to worry much about anyway. I'm thinking they'd like to place a camera inside everyone's home and workplace. After all, as they tell us: "if you're not doing anything wrong, you don't have anything to worry about".
http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=508261
Yup. Just as long as it's on a public street.
What about one on your street....with a fish-eye lens, taking in your house?
Piss on that, we have CCW for a reason. I for one do not want to be walking around under the eye of Big Brother ever.
Second Amendment was added in there for a reason. This was part of it.