Mayor Daley on Monday embraced a radical plan to require every licensed Chicago business open more than 12 hours a day to install indoor and outdoor cameras.
“Block clubs, community organizations want cameras. … They can’t walk down the street. … Their kids have to go around a corner away from the gang-bangers. You can’t walk to church. You can’t get on the CTA. … Cameras really prevent much crime. Cameras also solve a lot of crime. The terrorist attacks in London were solved by cameras. The whole incident was solved by cameras,” Daley said.
And to meld the grand tradition of Chicago/Daley politics with this new proposal, he called for the immediate placement of cameras in the offices of his political opposition.
yet another jeff
The terror attacks in London were solved by cameras? I seem to recall that “solving” going a bit awry.
I’m not worried about gang-bangers…I’m worried about the barely legal teens…funny he’d phrase it like that, because it sounds like when everyone has cameras, we all get screwed.
LITBMueller
Ay, caramba…. This is so ridiculous….
On the other hand….bars outside of nightclubs could make for good late night pay-per-view!!!!
Just thinking out loud….
ppGaz
Bizarre.
salvage
Um… more cops on the beat a la NYC?
No, too sane, howabout crime fighting gorillas with throwing stars?
yet another jeff
That’s right, salvage. More cops on the beat is a pre-9/11 mindset. If you can put enough cameras out, you don’t even need cops. That’ll teach them to make union demands.
Paul Wartenberg
The only thing surveillence cameras increase is the level of voyeurism
Tipsy McStagger
Maybe he can team up with Bush and do a two-fer. Not only we you be tapped, but you will be taped.
yet another jeff
Tapping and Taping two-fer! I like it…alliteration is very important in the Global Struggle Against Violent Extremism.
chefrad
Ah, but if it were Karl Rove he’d be bugging himself and waxing indignanat about the intrusion–something KR actually did during his tenure in Texas.