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[I’ve been WONDERING about those cameras on every building, block and toll across the country! Where were they, were they turned off, WTH is going on with all those cameras!! What you are saying makes sense now. They’ve been doing what cameras DO: Record. EVERYTHING.]

Much of it is private businesses recording video for security purposes. Let’s say someone knocks a retail store over. Its recorded video may show the same individuals checking the place out for weeks before the robbery. It may not even be the store’s video. Cops will go around the area asking various proprietors and home owners for their exterior video archives. Since no one wants armed robbers who targeted the area to remain at large *and* it’s good for a retailer if the cops owe them a favor, they are usually glad to volunteer any video without a court order. That’s why clearance rates are high and getting higher. It’s also why black criminals like to keep it in the hood. Fewer cameras recording everything they do, with months of video archives lying dormant until required to provide clues regarding a robbery, murder or some other violent felony.

We put up a camera on our house after our cars were vandalized, and all of the new constructions going up in our town have built-in multi-camera systems.

They’re expensive homes ($1.5 mil+).

On cameras:

How effective are they when so many people are wearing masks, especially protesters, due to the big bad virus?

There have been some posters here on FR who have speculated that part of the mask push was to help the good guys “train” technology better to identify people who are wearing masks in anticipation for large scale rioting in which the criminal rioters would naturally wear masks, virus or not.