Phil, In Houston, we have cameras inside as well as outside, and at most traffic lights. Although our mayor says that's not true.:aargh:
Of course - Houston is a big - and tough - town. New York is the same way, as is Los Angeles, Miami and Boston.
But these major cities aren't representative of the entire country - there are FAR more small towns than megalopolises. Those towns don't know from cameras or SWAT or locking their doors.
So, I still stand by my statement that cameras are not yet "everywhere". Yes, the convenience store up the street has them, but the church and the soul food place across the street do not. There are no red-light cameras in the neighborhood, no surveillance choppers buzzing around that I can see.
And just because there is a camera present doesn't necessarily mean that it
works. At the last club I bounced at there were two parking lot cameras mounted, neither of which worked for 3 years. And the patrons knew it. So, even though there were cameras present they served no good purpose. We also had an incident a year or so ago in our town - a child was struck by a hit-and-run while leaving a Halloween party at a downtown location which was filled with traffic and anti-crime cameras. Guess what? None of those cameras caught the hit-and-run, even though they saturated the area.
I won't say I'm not paranoid about cameras - I am. It just isn't yet to the point where they are everywhere. But that point is surely coming. That's why it's important to stop their usage NOW, because in a relatively short time they will be part of our social fabric.