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| Chicago Mayor Daley: Cameras On Almost Every Block By 2016 |
| 2006-10-12 |
| 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 |
| #7 Sounds like a vision of utopian idealism. If you'll excuse me now I need to go stick my finger down my throat. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2006-10-12 17:53 |
| #6 This is CHICAGO!, There will be no cameras to steal since the money for these cameras will go into someones pocket. Just as well since somew punk would have stolen them waste not, want not. |
| Posted by: bruce 2006-10-12 16:03 |
| #5 At least they'll have good pictures of the perps that steal the cameras. |
| Posted by: Cheaderhead 2006-10-12 12:17 |
| #4 They'll turn the cameras off when the dead come out to vote for the Democrats, though. |
| Posted by: Jonathan 2006-10-12 11:46 |
| #3 Oh, it won't stop or reduce crime, but if someone lights a cigar... |
| Posted by: Jackal 2006-10-12 11:42 |
| #2 It's the left's answer to security, a police state. |
| Posted by: wxjames 2006-10-12 11:31 |
| #1 Just ask London how well their camera program worked. Boneheads like this need beaten with rubber hoses then run out of office. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2006-10-12 10:57 |