"30 years ago I mistakenly shot somebody’s homing pigeon while hunting dove. It would be a shame for somebody there to make a mistake."
You've certainly hit upon something here. ha-ha. The trick, of course, would be to not have this device "see" you and transmit those photos back to the host.
In Houston's defense, I believe that their elevated crime situation really became "elevated" during and after Hurricane Katrina in '05. I don't know how many, if any, of those "first class" citizens have since returned home. I suspect very few, so that would certainly intensify Houston's desire to control their activities.
As for Houston Police's assertion that they would only be surveying criminal activity, I'd ask the question, "How long would it take for the desire to surveil everyone fully develop?"
“I’d ask the question, ‘How long would it take for the desire to surveil everyone fully develop?’”
The desire is already there, the capability is now here, and the only thing that’s stopping them is the fear of the public, which is why they are innoculating us to violence against people accused of no crime, and of bombing us citizens from above. This is as bad as it gets, we just haven’t reached fruition yet, which will be a culmination of that bad.