Red Squad Back? Big Brother cameras zoom in on Chicago

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1. ‘Covert’ surveillance cameras coming to Chicago BY FRAN SPIELMAN City Hall Reporter fspielman@suntimes.com Blue-light surveillance cameras in Chicago’s high-crime neighborhoods will someday be augmented by “covert” cameras that “fit inside of a match box” and keep the bad guys guessing, Police Supt. Jody Weis said. Now that crime-ravaged communities have been saturated with hundreds of blue-light cameras, Weis says it’s time [...]...
2. Surveillance Cameras in Chicago: Extensive, Pervasive and Unregulated Yesterday, the ACLU of Illinois released a new report detailing the threats to privacy Chicagoans face under the watchful eyes of that city’s growing surveillance camera system. The report is the first large-scale, independent study of the city’s integrated surveillance system — a system former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff deemed the most [...]...
3. Red-light cameras are target of Valentine’s Day protest Nearly two dozen gather on North Side, urging drivers to honk to protest communities they say are using cameras to boost revenue rather than reduce crashes. “Taxing people under the guise of safety” By Kristen Schorsch, Tribune reporter February 14, 2010 Valentine’s Day captured passion of another kind — the ire of Chicago motorists who [...]...
4. Steve Chapman commentary: Police surveillance cameras and crime If you want to be on TV, don’t go to Los Angeles or New York. Come to Chicago, where your wish is certain to be fulfilled. In fact, you couldn’t avoid it if you wanted to, thanks to the nation’s most extensive network of police surveillance cameras. Anytime you walk out your door, you may [...]...
5. Bill Daley: Avoid a showdown, back debt-ceiling increase By Lynn Sweet on April 29, 2011 8:38 AM WASHINGTON — A factor in President Obama’s decision to address the “birther” question — and release his “long form” birth certificate — came when ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos asked him about it in an April 14 interview where Obama wanted the story to be on [...]...