Houston eyes cameras at apartment complexes

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Houston eyes cameras at apartment complexes

By PAM EASTON
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

HOUSTON -- Houston's police chief on Wednesday proposed placing surveillance cameras in apartment complexes, downtown streets, shopping malls and even private homes to fight crime during a shortage of police officers.

"I know a lot of people are concerned about Big Brother, but my response to that is, if you are not doing anything wrong, why should you worry about it?" Chief Harold Hurtt told reporters Wednesday at a regular briefing.

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*sigh*

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1. Harold sounds like a paragon of reason.

Must be a delight to discuss an issue of consequence with him. I believe the Psych Tests must have been among the first things the Law Enforcement agencies cut in favor of high tech weapons. Do police seem more thuggish than they used to? Or is this my imagination?

I notice they all wear those gloves loaded with birdshot (funny coincidence, huh) they're like blackjacks. Perhaps I'm paranoid, but like Kissinger said...