Developer Chuck Murphy, head of Mayor Steve Bach’s Downtown Solutions Team, said Tuesday that surveillance cameras proposed for downtown are not intrusive on anyone who is behaving.
“There is a certain amount of decorum that we should expect from everybody,” he said.
Decorum, yes. Record of decorum, no. Chuck seems to be out of touch on this issue. #NoSpringsCameras
Hey Cuckie have you had a conference with the Police Deppartment and the Sheriffs Office. How, about starting there.
How old are you, you have no clue.
Lilithia
When I was a prosecutor in the DA’s office we pretended there was a plea bargain we called an “RJFA in the BD” that we would offer first offenders who whooped it up too much in the downtown. It stood for “Running Jumping and F ing Around in the Business District.” If the defendant would agree to this plea reduction we would dismiss the actual charge. They actually thought there was such an ordinance. Now if my big brother Chuck prevails with his cameras, maybe they should put it on the books.
He who would give up liberty for security will enjoy neither.
Cameras are a slippery slope to a police state, and the fact that many cities have already embarked on that slide, is no reason for our fair City to follow like lemmings over the cliff.
If businesses believe cameras increase their security, and many do, they are free to install them. I choose not to spend limited tax dollars to subsdize them.
I would like to see Police in the Acacia Park building, and walking or biking the Tejon corridor to “serve and protect” the citizenry.
The logical extension of Murphy’s argument is that cameras should be in every home because good people have nothing to fear. Who would believe that?
The way Chuck keeps mentioning “spies in the sky” makes me wonder if he will seek municipal leasing of drones from the Fort Carson CAB next.
Well, Chuck, there’s a 4th amendment problem with your statement: “surveillance cameras are not intrusive on anyone who is behaving”.
You see, they are a defacto search of people with no probable cause, no due process, and, in most every case, to be people who ARE behaving.
Documenting bad behavior of people, in a public space, that ARE breaking the law OR suspected of doing so is one thing, but the vast majority of those downtown are NOT breaking the law and no search of them is warranted (pun intended).
http://youtu.be/kbpQOW7gIPk