{"id":5220,"date":"2011-03-10T11:21:58","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T05:56:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-23T05:56:00","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=5220","title":{"rendered":"Reason.com: &#8220;Police Cameras and Crime&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2011\/02\/21\/police-cameras-and-crime\">Police Cameras and Crime | Can a surveillance state make us safer?<\/a> by Steve Chapman on Reason.com February 21, 2011:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you want to be on TV, don&#8217;t go to Los Angeles or New York. Come to Chicago, where your wish is certain to be fulfilled. In fact, you couldn&#8217;t avoid it if you wanted to, thanks to the nation&#8217;s most extensive network of police surveillance cameras. Anytime you walk out your door, you may find an audience.<\/p>\n<p>This is one of Mayor Richard M. Daley&#8217;s proudest achievements, but the estimated 10,000 devices now in operation are not enough for him. He once expressed his intention to keep adding cameras until there is one &#8220;on every street corner in Chicago.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>His obvious error is to assume that if some cameras are good, more are better. Daley&#8217;s policy also rests on a plausible but unproven assumption: that cameras reduce crime by deterring criminals and helping nab those who aren&#8217;t deterred.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I remember a bus sign in NYC years ago: &#8220;Want to be on TV? The average American is on TV somewhere 17 times a day.&#8221; They just haven&#8217;t invented the telescreen yet, but the telescreen kept talking to Winston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=5220\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}