Many cameras. Little focus. Blurry results.
Two decades, hundreds of millions of dollars and thousands of cameras later, an Illinois Answers Project and Chicago Tribune investigation has found that reality has fallen far short of those early promises. While installing thousands of police surveillance cameras has undoubtedly helped catch criminals and solve crimes, Chicago’s ever-growing system has yet to become the crime-fighting panacea Daley predicted.
Increasingly it appears surveillance technologies employed by law enforcement are not worth the price of the privacy they invade and the mistrust they breed.
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