I'm all for increased use of remote CCTV cameras to catch a reasonable range of specific cast in law, negative urban human activities. The last few decades the experiment of "the honor system" and respect for reasonable laws has with certainty not been accepted increasingly by so many that a higher level of deterrence is logically now called for. Especially aggravating has been the greatly widening wealth poor gap.
Beyond the freeway entrance/exit ramps now being installed in the SFBA after being monkey-wrenched by libertarian opposing groups for years given the usual 1984 scare arguments, we ought move ahead wisely. Especially within retail and public establishments where thieves are bullying the public by inhibiting what law enforcement is allowed to do lest civil rights possibly be violated. With adequate guidelines, transparency, and oversight technologies have potential to be used for society's benefit. Unless we are allowed to use technology in kind to defeat malware and technology criminals, society is doomed to increasing eventual dystopian anarchy. An embarrassing net condemnation of those leading humans
But of course we must be aware how such might be abused that this electronic telecom age provides power affect to that end. Even for say being caught on camera littering, tossing trash. We don't need a police state but rather just enough for the sake of common sense flexibly.