[michaelje]

"Public space is very much that. There should be no expectation of privacy when you're out on the street."

If this is the case Mr. Gainer, how about I sit outside of your building with a digital camera, photograph everyone that comes and goes, and circulate such findings.

[Sloth]

"Cameras don't catch crooks, cops do. A camera would not prevent a robbery. It might help law enforcement find the person who committed the robbery, but it wouldn't prevent it."

Actually, cops don't do any more than that.

If this is the case Mr. Gainer, how about I sit outside of your building with a digital camera, photograph everyone that comes and goes, and circulate such findings

That would be entirely legal, as long as you are in a public area and not obstructing traffic.

[Asclepius]

... With powerful high-tech zoom lenses monitoring more than 200 key locations, and more on the way, police officers in Washington, D.C., will soon be able to peer into virtually every corner of the nation's capital ...

Oh, please-please-please establish a live-feed to the web. The cherry blossoms are so beautiful in the spring.

[thinden]

Cameras don't catch crooks, cops do. A camera would not prevent a robbery. It might help law enforcement find the person who committed the robbery, but it wouldn't prevent it."

sure wasn't any help with chandra's disappearance was it?

[Lexington Green]

We are no longer citizens... just livestock in the govenment zoo.