Focus (Forum & Focus)
Aug. 23, 2007
Security Cameras Erode Liberties Without Increasing Safety
Forum Column - By Mark Schlosberg and Nicole Ozer - Americans anxious for digital surveillance on every corner should look at the results that the policy has already yielded: higher crime, increased racial profiling and law enforcement officers who spend most of their time ogling passersby.
By Mark Schlosberg and Nicole Ozer
Three-thousand video-surveillance cameras forming a "Ring of Steel" in lower Manhattan; an amendment by Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., in the Homeland Security appropriations bill to develop a national strategy for closed-circuit television; dozens of public-street cameras in San Francisco with plans to install even more next year; and a recently completed contract by the city ...
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