This is a slippery slope children. Anyone in favor of these cameras has not been charged with a crime based on a email. If one person who was victim to a crime previously and is activly looking for the culprat comes across a recording of you "loitering" in front of a pizza shop waiting for your pizza to get cooked and this person assumes your casing out a home to rob they call the cops to investigate. Dispatch tells the cop that a strange man is seen looking at empty houses and a possible burglary is in progress. Cop gets there and gives you an order to put your hands on the hood of the car. You refuse and demand why. Next thing you know your being slammed and handcuffed charged with night prowling and resisting arrest. At trial the jury will look at the tape with the play by play commentary by the prosecutor, the cop, and the poor victim who was brave enough to call the police and fight crime. I have seen prosecutors in a murder trial abought a guy who allegedly killed his wife spend a signifigant amount of time focusing on one song from Guns n' roses he downloaded from the internet along with thousands others. The song had vague references to getting rid of your wife. Convicted of murder because of his taste of music and lack of money to put up a defense. This is more likely; you say high to a friend and shake hands in view of the camera. Cops are so focused on looking for drug deals that they see what they want to see. On the way home in your car you get pulled over searched, have the dog sniffing for drugs. They don't find any but two days later you get a careless driving ticket because the cop needs justification for his actions and the Magistrates who manage the money for the district of which 40% comes from traffic violations is more than happy to take your money. And god bless you if you would have a prior run in with the law or am a minority. Not all cops are like this but I used to think cops were people of integrity who followed the rules. I was shocked the first time a cop acted unprofessional to me. The right to privacy is essential if we are to enjoy freedom of speech, protechion from search and seizure, and right not to self incriminate and remain silent. Private homeowners in the developement if they choose to should put up a camera and record events. If a crime occurs said citizen can turn over the tape to police and maybe a program exists that an reward is given
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Data obtained by Republic Media TV...
This is January 2008 - April 2008 monitoring data. Remember, in the beginning of 2008 there were not nearly the number of cameras that there are now, but it gives some perspective:
VIDEOS SENT BY LCSC TO COUNTY 911: 428 VIDEOS REQUESTED BY COUNTY 911: 6 VIDEOS REQUESTED BY POLICE: 14
