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July 10, 2003

The Chicago PD announced today that it will be putting surveillance cameras on the streets to help fight crime in some bad areas, as well as at some busy intersections to snag wayward drivers:

The camera units will be marked with Chicago Police Department logos, be bullet-proof, weather-proof and remote-controlled by joystick with the ability to zoom and pan 360 degrees, and have night-vision capabilities so they can be monitored 24 hours a day, officials said.
"We designed them this way to ensure we are visible, and the criminals know we are out there," Hillard said. "We're not going to tell you where they're going or how many there's going to be installed, but they will become obvious to the criminals when they see us out there."

I don't know whether this sort of thing is an effective deterrent or not. Clearly it will help reduce crime that's localized to certain areas, but at some point won't people just do their dirty work somewhere else? Obviously they want to be somewhat vague about how many cameras there are and where they'll show up, but the west side is a pretty big place. Will this eventually lead to cameras everywhere? With traffic, this approach might be more effective, since to run a red light you pretty much have to do it at the light. But dealing drugs for instance is a little more flexible in terms of the where.

The Illinois chapter of the ACLU has apparently come out in support of this policy, which surprised me at first. But given the scope of Chicago's crime problem and the fact that the program as advertised doesn't infringe anyone's civil rights, I guess it makes some sense. Not that you can't make a solid argument against it - last December when a traffic camera system was installed in Washingtn DC the citizenry (and the ACLU) made a lot of noise. More recently, they've come up with some creative solutions.

The more disturbing side of this whole thing is that in some cases they will be recording the footage for later analysis. Does that mean it's going to be made available to federal law enforcement? Depending on how ubiquitous these cameras are, this could be a pretty disturbing development, and as I suggested before, there's every chance that more cameras will be needed down the road, as criminals starts to game them. And what happens when somebody is attacked on camera but nobody happens to be watching at the time, and we end up with a murder that could have been prevented with more surveillance?

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