Re:Waste of time (Score 1)

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.