What is the difference between a policeman standing on a near by street corner watching you or a police man watching you from a near by police station using a mounted video camera? Its public property. If you are not doing anything wrong, neither make any difference to you but to add personal security for you and your families. If you are thinking about doing something wrong, maybe you will think twice and not do it. If you do something wrong, we got an eye witness from a police officer and video tape to back it up. Shame shame on you.
I remember a child that was abducted about a year or two ago. They had the perpetrator and child both caught on video. It was from a parking lot security camera or something like that. It actually showed the man grabbing the girl. You could see them both clear as a bell. I think security is good in almost any shape or fashion. As long as they don't get into voyeurism or anything like that, they can watch me if they want to. I like it.
What can they do bad with public camera idea? They might catch me picking my nose or scratching my butt and put it on the Internet. Or maybe they may put them at stop signs and catch me not coming to a complete stop. This would be bad bad.
Bottom line is if you are not doing anything wrong, You probably have no worries at all. Everybody is watching everything all the time anyway already . Why shouldn't the police do it? What is the difference? Its the new age, get used to it
Also, how nice would it be if we had a video shot of that guy Steve Howards that criticized Cheney so we could see what really happened? I got an idea that may be on video. Usually malls have a lot of video security. I sure hope so