An Article I published today has me asking "WHY"

"All wealthy people have cameras in all the high rises, suburban areas. ... Why can't the average person in the city of Chicago? Everyone wants a camera. They want to have a camera in front of every home, every block, because they feel much safer."

Over the last 20 months, criminal activity captured by police cameras "directly assisted" in making 1,458 arrests, said interim police Supt. Dana Starks. In the first murder case the cameras may have helped solve, police a few months ago nabbed a suspect in the killing of a 14-year-old boy who was shot not far from the street corner at 23rd Street and Marshall Boulevard where Thursday's news conference was held.

Earlier camera models featured boxy housings painted in checkerboard police fashion and had flashing blue lights, but some people complained they were too obtrusive. The devices now are more compact with no lights and resemble street lamps.

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Wealthy people like cameras because they have things to steal. The cameras in "average" neighborhoods are not there for "protection" it is not proactive , it is only "after" the fact. Since the paper decided to use murder as the proof of how "safe" this boy was made....perhaps that will make his Mother feel better to know that the cameras made her boy safe.

 Wealthy people use the video from cameras as evidence to hand their insurance companies for reimbursment of property. Average people can not get their lives back and the cameras are their chiefly as a money maker for the City by being able to mail out fines to those "caught on camera" doing minor offenses.

It would be more of a deterrent to crime by bringing back the obtrusive ones that stood out like a sore thumb. 

Mayor Daley's Family has run Chicago for years. If it is still a Mob Town and gangland, his family is to blame. 

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