Last year, I was in a city hall conference room discussing with staff members the options for dealing with persistent and costly vandalism at city facilities; in this case, at a park and in city hall restrooms.The discussion led to the idea of video monitoring as a strategy to discourage vandalism. Like many people, I'm of the generation that grew up reading George Orwell's book 1984, and so my first reaction to this idea was that it gave me the creeps! At the gut level, I just hated the idea of video monitoring for anything other than legitimate police work, and I didn't want to see a lot of cameras in public places.
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