Security Cameras in our Nation’s Capital

For more than five years, security experts and privacy advocates have praised the public video surveillance network operated by the D.C. police department as the model of a well-balanced system. The department has adopted a set of common-sense regulations for its 91 cameras that give police access to footage when they need it while protecting the privacy rights of the millions who live or work in Washington.We were greatly disappointed, then, to hear Mayor Adrian Fenty and Darrell Darnell, director of the D.C. Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency, announce plans this month [front page, April 10] to centralize monitoring of more than 5,000 cameras, including those in and around our schools, public housing and residential neighborhoods.

-John Podesta

The Washington Post

 

When I stop and think about it, it makes sense to start in the middle and work out. That is exactly what they are doing. The government is starting to put thousands of surveillance cameras in Washington D.C., and will start working out. Even more, they are starting in large important cities, (New York and Chicago for example),  and working their way outwards with the installations of police cameras that will allow no privacy.

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