Daley: By 2016, cameras on 'almost every block'

Chicago Sun-Times ^ | 10--12-06 | FRAN SPIELMAN

[dogbyte12]

Security and terrorism won't be an issue if Chicago wins the right to host the 2016 Summer Olympic Games because, by that time, there'll be a surveillance camera on every corner, Mayor Daley said Wednesday. "By the time 2016 [rolls around], we'll have more cameras than Washington, D.C. ... Our technology is more advanced than any other city in the world -- even compared to London -- dealing with our cameras and the sophistication of cameras and retro-fitting all the cameras downtown in new buildings, doing the CTA cameras," Daley said.

"By 2016, I'll make you a bet. We'll have [cameras on] almost every block."

[Crooked Constituent]

Where are all the civil liberties complainers?

Oh, nevermind, it isn't a Bush proposal.

[lmailbvmbipfwedu]

Remember Meigs Field.............

[RightWhale]

Humans will evolve in response to a changing enviroment. Those who cannot adopt will die out and a new, improved human will emerge.
-Joe Stalin

[jpl]

Can we be private anywhere now?

I'm no fan of the idea of a camera on every street corner, but the honest truth is that there is no right to privacy when you're in public, and there never has been.

[RightWhale]

I feel safer already.

[white trash redneck]

More guns (in citizen hands), fewer cameras.

[brownsfan]

"Blackmail though."

We are already reaping some of the "rewards" of this kind of intrusion into our lives. Why do you think there are so few quality candidates for public office? Most people have something in their past that would be a problem, or just to painful to deal with in a campaign. The result is we get candidates who are "electable", not qualified.

What the heck, put cameras everywhere. I'm getting too old to care, or fight.

[isom35]

how about cameras on the people counting the votes, and the mayor's office?

[unixfox]

These cameras will work about as well as the signs posted outside of schools that say NO WEAPONS OR DRUGS ALLOWED ON PROPERTY!

Yep, that keeps the bad guys away.

[SF Republican]

I don't think it makes ME feel safer but I do like the thought of the govts ability to track a perpetrator. I would not want the govt having cameras in my home, but in public, no problem. All these people wondering about who will watch these cameras do not understand they go to tape and are used after the fact to review.

[No.6]

Liberals live and act as if they watched _The Prisoner_ during the '60s and thought to themselves, hey, yea, that Village, that's the way to make things!

Be seeing you, indeed.

[bamahead]

What's the problem?
If you aren't doing anything wrong, you have nothing to fear from all the cameras...

/THICK SARC

[RightWhale]

A patrolman on every corner is the best way to protect the streets. With National Guard backup. If it gets hairier than that go to martial law and replace the patrolman with a soldier with a long gun.

[bamahead]

ping

[meyer]

It ain't just Daley - all the pols seem to love the government cameras. Better to keep an eye on the little people (and political enemies), I suppose.

I say ban them.

[abovethefray]

Good point. From a dem organization, this is just accepted. Wonder what kind of howling we would hear if the Republicans pushed this big brother crap.

[meyer]

Who will be watching the cameras? - probably no one, but if an assault occurs they can then go back, see the event, and back track the perp. I like the idea.

We have a few in Chattanooga. I get to watch a couple of them. It's fun watching the drunks leave the corner pub at 2 AM.

[SF Republican]

I think a patrolman on every corner 24/7 is much more expensive. Martial law? now I think you are joking - I hope.

[WinOne4TheGipper]

Congratulations, Mr. Orwell. You were only 32 years off.

[fortunecookie]

Yikes! Big brother is watching, or wants to be. Creepy. I'd love to go to the Olympics, even in Chicago, but this will change things for me.

And Daley has done so well with crime thus far, just look at how the gun control has stymied crime. (end sarcasm, begin laughing)