Joe Santiago, the city’s newly appointed emergency management chief doesn’t feel the network is enough. The Sun Times reports Santiago hopes to link even more private sector cameras into the network, bemoaning the fact that parts of the city still can’t be seen. Aside from the sometimes intense debate over traffic cameras, Chicagoans don’t seem to mind the idea of big brother looking over their shoulder. Spokesman for the Illinois ACLU Edwin Yohnka said “it does appear that people only object is when they get a ticket for running a red light.”As we pointed out in our post on the city’s desire for covert cameras, the actual crime fighting capability of even an integrated network is suspect. We also wonder what it means when some CPD officers are nervous about cameras keeping an eye on them while the rest of us seem to be content to have surveillance cameras capture our image dozens or even hundreds of times a day. Have we become so used to an eye in the sky that the idea of privacy is dead? It’s possible - as Paul Green, a Roosevelt University political science professor points out, Mayor Daley “could put 10,000 more cameras up and nobody would say anything.”
♥ Apr 7th at 11AM / via: absurdlakefront / op: absurdlakefront / tagged: chicago. police. lights. camera. privacy. / reblog
