Chicago mayor: "Cameras on every corner!"

[KBCraig]

Interesting game of bragging rights. 

http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/92811,CST-NWS-bside12.article

Daley: By 2016, cameras on 'almost every block'

October 12, 2006
BY FRAN SPIELMAN City Hall Reporter

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.

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[error]

There's two ways to look at that.

One is that terrorism won't be an issue because nobody with any sense will want to visit -- or live in -- Chicago after it becomes a surveillance city.

The other is that terrorism WILL be an issue because we all know that cameras don't do jack shit for deterring terrorist acts.

Possibly both will happen.

[Lex]

There's two ways to look at that.

One is that terrorism won't be an issue because nobody with any sense will want to visit -- or live in -- Chicago after it becomes a surveillance city.

The other is that terrorism WILL be an issue because we all know that cameras don't do jack shit for deterring terrorist acts.

Possibly both will happen.

I would think that terrorists love Cameras, that's how they spread their terror ;-)

[Dreepa]

and by 2016 you will only be able to eat what the mayor's office tells you.

[error]

By 2016, there might not be anyone left in Chicago.

[KBCraig]

I would think that terrorists love Cameras, that's how they spread their terror ;-)

Quite true; they're fond of videotaping their acts and sending copies to Al Jazeera, so that the world may see how big and scary they are.

How convenient if the targets of their terror would let them skip that intermediate step, and provide tax-paid video for the world.