Comments about ‘Cameras installed at Pioneer Park’

What would you do, ACLU, that is so clever and will protect the safety and rights of the community? Do you just take these positions knowing they will infuriate most of the public most of the time? How are you always so certain you are right and the rest of us are wrong and ignorant?
The ACLU attitude is always so condescending - they are always so "enlightened" and we, the masses, are the "ignorant, blind followers".
Add the ACLU to the list of people and organizations that take my breath away:
ACLU, Pelosi, Reid, Durbin, Shumer, Frank, Dodd, Daschle and Leahy all the time - Biden and Obama, usually. (Some of my own children, some of the time.
One golfing friend, most of the time.)

Oh, the ACLU is "not impressed". That grieves me.

Public surveillance on public property is an intrusion of privacy that will surely be abused by the government. There is no comparison between the government spying on its citizens on public property and private property owners monitoring its private property. Note to government: public property is not yours!

I hope the ACLU and others will join to fight this growth of big brother.

Don't commit crimes while in public, or anywhere else.

People who don't commit crimes have much less chance of going to jail than people who do.

And, I couldn't give a hoot what some transient in the park thinks about his "legitimate expectation of privacy." Give me a break.

This is not an invasion of privacy. Anyone can go to a public park and look at whoever they want whenever they want. Thus, no one in a public park has any expectation that what they do there is private. Law enforcement has just as much right to observe people in the park as anyone else does.

This is a waste of money. This is why we pay you to do your job.

nice rant tk but you failed to explain wht the ACLU's concerns are not legitimate.

If the ACLU is opposed to this, it must be a really great idea!

alright Dave why dont you tell us why?

The interesting thing about cameras is that you eventually become accustomed to them and forget they are there. For a while there may be an awareness of the cameras and a decline in crime, but soon they will be just part of the scenery and life will go on as normal.

The concern is what happens with the information once it is filmed. How long is it preserved? How secure is the storage? Who has access to it? And how are they going to use it?

Pay police to do their job? I don't imagine there are enough police to go around. And paying for people is always more expensive than for equipment - in the long run especially.

You ask good questions.

Not very welcoming, I'd as soon go to a park where I'm not being spied upon.

Let's not forget that Pioneer Park is not just another park. It is a known, high traffic drug distribution center. Why would anyone want to deny the police the resources they need to combat this problem.

What a joke! That's like going to a televised Jazz game and complaining because you were seen on TV.

Against the cameras in the park? Why not take your family and children for a day long picnic at Pioneer park. Let the children run and play at will.
Feel its that safe? If you don't, then thank the police for the camera usage, trying to make the park safe again.

In my personal opinion this could possibly decrease the number of criminal activity of the park; and this could mean for anything. If anyone is feeling like this is an invasion of privacy, then sorry but you fit the perfect American stereotype.