Where to Put the Cameras

Where to Put the Cameras

One surveillance camera must be placed into the City Manager's office, another in the City Council's buffet room. (Jillian Fennimore, “Cambridge City Council: We don't need Big Brother watching us,”
Cambridge Chronicle, February 03, 2009) The City dispatchers already have too much power thwarting citizen access to police and emergency vehicles. They often are not trained in the First Amendment rights of citizens to have access to police protection. The dispatchers often make decisions about what is a crime and who they should believe, openly discriminating based upon disability. This is a long term abuse that the City Manager refuses to address. The dispatchers often illegally divert calls to Harvard in order to ensure some abuses will NOT be corrected. If the surveillance cameras give more decision making authority to these ill trained dispatchers that is another rational argument against their deployment.

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Cambridge City Council: We don't need Big Brother watching us
By Jillian Fennimore/
Cambridge Chronicle staff
Tue Feb 03, 2009, 03:27 PM EST