You’d think that, at some point, all these city founders who think to themselves that maybe speed / traffic / crime cameras are a good idea would look at the sheer and enormous outcry against them and say, jeepers, maybe this is the most boneheaded move I could make.

Well, government work must cause brain damage or something because it sure hasn’t stopped anyone yet.  We’re in New Orleans tonight, the site of yet ANOTHER string of lawsuits posed by citizens against the traffic cameras.  Basically, the cameras seem to be costing the city a whole lot more in tax dollars and work nowhere near as well as advertised.  The crime camera budget ballooned from about two and a half million dollars to just short of seven, and with only a fraction of the original one thousand units budgeted for.  What’s worse, the cameras only occasionally work due to “networking” issues.

This is a terrible circumstance, and hopefully, this will be one more nail in the coffin of citywide surveillance programs.

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