[Paladin2]

Chicago needs to include cameras in the bedrooms of the ACLU members.

[pointsal]

Wanna bet the political types have cameras placed in front of their opponents financial sugar-daddy's house or near the secret apartment of a councilman's girl friend?

The potential is only limited by the imagination of the police state.

Maybe the locals could post the GPS locations on something like EveryTrails or Googlemap. What a great scavenger hunt!

[thethirddegree]

I wonder how much it is costing Chicago to pay people to watch the feeds from the cameras.

[GeronL]

The ACLU is only worried about the civil rights of criminals who might get caught not the average American. They’re just incidental here

[docbnj]

When you are on a public street, you are not entitled to exemption from being merely observed.

I am fed up with all the impediments groups like the ACLU place in the way of safety and law-enforcement. They have no consideration for the individual members of society who suffer as a result of their policies.

ACLU is a sicko organization with very bad origins (formerly an outright Communist front). They are a socially destructive group.

[docbnj]

When you are on a public street, you are not entitled to exemption from being merely observed.

I am fed up with all the impediments groups like the ACLU place in the way of safety and law-enforcement. They have no consideration for the individual members of society who suffer as a result of their policies.

ACLU is a sicko organization with very bad origins (formerly an outright Communist front). They are a socially destructive group.

[philman_36]

"Chicago's camera network invades the freedom to be anonymous in public places, a key aspect of the fundamental American right to be left alone," the report states. "Each of us then will wonder whether the government is watching and recording us when we walk into a psychiatrist's office, a reproductive health care center, a political meeting, a theater performance, or a book store."
I'm not keen on security cameras as the potential for abuse is very great, but I find this reasoning illogical.
Unless everyone has already been, or can be (such as facial recognition through a drivers license database), identified by the government or unless everybody knows who everyone else is then we're all still pretty much anonymous.
It's specious thinking and my initial reaction is that there is an ulterior motive.

[bunkerhill7]

Chicago Launches Chollywood`s Midwest Street Performer Idol Contest

Applications Available at any of 10,000 City Streetcorner Locations=-

Watch for the Flashing Blue Light! [or no light at all]

Go For it!.

[Oldpuppymax]

Not to worry, ACLU. Most of the cameras don’t even work...and no one is actually WATCHING on those that do. These are just tools to make it look as though Mayor Shortshanks gives a damn.

[zeugma]

Isn’t Illinois one of those police states where you can be arrested for filming a cop?

[JimRed]

Let me guess: too many of the protected minorities are being caught?