Daley wouldn't trust his employees to watch the cameras. They're too busy watching the clock!

http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/1413399,mayor-daley-city-workers-customers-020409.article

Actually. OEMC uses software technology to identify "suspicious" activity or people on their camera system to reduce the number of people who need to watch it. It basically looks for people who walk back and forth in front of the camera too many times (maybe a hooker or drug dealer). Or you can do search parameters on suspect descriptions. Obviously not a perfect science but it works well enough that Daley and OEMC are willing to spend as much money in a time of hundred million dollar deficits.

Anyways, the police will tell you it's pretty much just forced the criminals to move away from the cameras to do there business. That is why he needs to put them on every corner.

btw... This program is actually mostly your homeland security grant money at work. OEMC is the only department that can go after those grants and they do like gang-busters.

Daley has pretty much lost control over the City. He has admitted as much in the audio tied to the clockwatchers comment where he says the City doesn't know how to run facilities like the airports, skyway, and parking meters. Yet he forgets that he appoints the commissioners who run the departments each in their own empires.

And yes. Cameras, just like police are reactive measures. They can only respond to crimes.

Unfortunately, the only proactive solution is allowing guns back in the City. Daley's gun ban hasn't worked out so well. The crime rate has really been dropping since then and nobody ever gets shot in the City. He's already said he's going to waste as many tax payer dollars as it takes to fight the supreme court until his last breath.

This Chinese polution... brought to you by America.

Do you really think the only reason they shipped a large portion of manufacturing to China from the states is because labor is cheaper?

It because it's cheaper to manufacture things when you don't need to follow EPA regulations no matter how week they are. Scrubbers on smokestacks cost money. Dumping of toxic chemicals safely costs money.

China is desperate enough to break in to the world economy that they and other countries around it are willing to look the other way. When China does finally start catching on that the western world has shipped their dirty laundry to them the factories will just move to Africa or South America. Other emerging companies looking to look the other way to bring their countries into modern times.

We're even so kind as to ship them our used computer components for kids to burn in open fire pits in order to extract the precious metals. Meanwhile they're dumping burned plastics and mercury into the atmosphere.