Cameras Everywhere?

[HoboFactory]

NEW YORK (AP) -- Pressure is building for greater use of video cameras to keep watch over the nation's cities -- particularly in transportation systems and other spots vulnerable to terrorism -- after the bombings in London.

 

The calls have come over the last few weeks as British investigators released surveillance footage of the bombers in the deadly July 7 attacks and then put out frames of suspects in Thursday's failed attacks.

 

"I do not think that cameras are the big mortal threat to civil liberties that people are painting them to be," Washington, D.C., Mayor Anthony A. Williams said Friday.

 

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[ecnarf]

London is already covered with cameras, has been for years.

[Bizud]

And what good do they actually do?

[Maverick]

They're actually pretty effective, especially for minimizing theft and street crimes. As for stopping terrorists, that's a whole other matter, I suppose.

[ecnarf]

They're actually pretty effective, especially for minimizing theft and street crimes. As for stopping terrorists, that's a whole other matter, I suppose.

It also provides hours of material for "Caught on Camera" shows on TLC. You know, really bad drivers, vandalism, theft...

[no yu begin wher i end]

They're actually pretty effective, especially for minimizing theft and street crimes. As for stopping terrorists, that's a whole other matter, I suppose.

It also provides hours of material for "Caught on Camera" shows on TLC. You know, really bad drivers, vandalism, theft...

That's why we need more.

[sancco]

they'd help in identifying the terroists afterwards more then why would preventing terroist attacks.