Posted on 04/06/2010 9:35:11 AM PDT by JoeProBono
CHICAGO (AP) -- When the body of Chicago's school board president was found partially submerged in a river last fall, a bullet wound to the head, cameras helped prove it was a suicide.
Friends had speculated someone forced Michael Scott to drive to the river before shooting him - and maybe even wrapped his fingers around the trigger.
But within days, police recreated Scott's 20-minute drive through the city using high-tech equipment that singled out his car on a succession of surveillance cameras, handing the image from camera to camera. The video didn't capture Scott's final moments, but it helped convince police his death was a suicide: He wasn't followed. He wasn't following anyone. He never picked up a passenger.
The investigation offered a riveting demonstration of the most extensive and sophisticated video surveillance system in the United States, and one that is transforming what it means to be in public in Chicago...
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The cameras should really be placed inside the offices of all the elected officials
Hooray!! I feel so safe knowing the government is watching my every move!
Don’t people read anymore? This is “1984” come to life. The People are begging to be shackled.
“The video didn’t capture Scott’s final moments”...
Still could be a murder?
I left Chicago for the rural areas 15 years ago exactly because of this kind of thing. I was there three years ago and it bugs me that I may have been on camera the whole time. Can definitely see myself not going back.
Ah ha!! All that paranoia as a child - fearing that I’m always being watched is finally paying off! :)
Yes, nothing to see here, move along. The cameras didn’t record the incident, but helped prove it was suicide anyway. What a laughable excuse for a free press we have.
So I take it all crime has plummeted to zero in Chicago?
Cameras are the least of the problem. Most of us pay good money to carry a tracking device called a cell phone every day.
Now, see, it's for the good of everyone! Coming soon to a neighborhood near you. There goes the sneaking the trash out wearing only your boxers or Big Brother will have you up on indecency charges.
I got to tell ya who ever tracks me is going to be very bored
So this was what Obama meant when he said he would have a transparent administration?
The deceased was a School Board President - not just a nobody.
Does the Chicago Camera Commission have gubmint employees monitoring the cameras and blacking out the evidence?
Damn - Al Capone would love this sh!t
And when they put cameras in every tree and make them internet-accessible, you can do this in the most literal sense possible.
works real good:
“5 Dead, 25 Hurt In Chicago Shootings In 36 Hours”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2485459/posts
Not me. I don’t own a cell phone. I see no need for them. Walking around with a phone stuck to my ear is not my idea of living. I did have a cell years ago but got into trouble at home cause when I was on the road, I never turned it on until I stopped for gas. They are a waste of money and time. I don’t need to be talkin to people when on my horse or driving on the freeway.
You got it! Those are the real criminals and should be scrutinized 24/7.
Totally understand your perspective but the expectation among most everybody else is to be available via cell phone. I know, I know -— what did we do before we had them? Since my history of having one is about 15 years, it is getting more difficult to remember life w/o one.
One of these days, I am going to be just like you!!
The response from the ACLU regarding this is.............sounds of silence.....(crickets)
Even better are the red light cameras. Chicago keeps the yellow lights timed less than the suburbs, so they can catch more people with the cameras. Easy to collect the fines, easy source of money for the politicians.
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