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Chicago Mayor Daley: Cameras On Almost Every Block By 2016
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." The mayor talked about the steady march toward a Big Brother city during a free-wheeling exchange with the Sun-Times editorial board after unveiling his proposed 2007 budget... Unlike in the novel 1984, they will learn that amazingly intrusive surveillance achieves little. However, they will have to find out the hard way. Some people just have no grasp of the obvious. Posted by: Anonymoose 2006-10-12 |
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