http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/07/30/people-want-big-brother-to-watch-them/ Life. Liberty. Property. Defending individual freedom and liberty, one post at a time. Wed, 22 May 2013 18:26:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/07/30/people-want-big-brother-to-watch-them/#comment-33626 UCrawford Mon, 30 Jul 2007 12:52:16 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/07/30/people-want-big-brother-to-watch-them/#comment-33626 As long as it doesn’t become some sort of federally-mandated program, I don’t actually see a problem with installing cameras in public places. The expectation to privacy is minimal in a public place, the cameras record the actions of both the public and the police (helping to combat police brutality as well as catching criminals), cameras are more effective than eyewitnesses (resulting in better prosecutions with less faulty or compromised testimony), and in the long-term I’d imagine that the cameras would be less expensive than putting a cop on every corner (you don’t have to pay salary, medical, disability, and retirement to a camera…just the occasional repair and replacements costs). Keep the cameras out of our homes and leave implementation of these programs at the state and local level and I don’t think there’s much of an argument that this is prelude to the Big Brother state.

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