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Just as word comes around that 75% of the Gotham is OK with bag searches ("Even in a city touchy about civil rights, New Yorkers pick a bag search over the threat of being blown up... But most voters don't want to give government too much power.") the MTA talks up its security camera plan (again! but seriously, now this is on the fast track...).
While 76 of the city's 468 subway stations already have cameras that videotape riders (along with 200 cameras whose feeds are monitored but not recorded) the MTA is about to spend $250 million to install more cameras throughout the system. According to the Post the cameras could be programmed to sound an alert if they catch loiterers or left behind packages (but we wonder: isn't loitering in a subway station called waiting for your train?). Gothamist can't say we're really surprised that more cameras are going in, we're pretty settled into the surveilled existence and they've been talking about this for awhile. But what's your take?
Photograph by Robert Caplin for the NYT
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More Cameras in the subway are a good idea IF they are Both Monitored and Recorded at all times. Even if they most often cannot prevent attacks to occur, they are valuable in finding out information. The CCTV cameras in London were instrumental in finding many suspects involved in both bombings. Without them who knows where the British would be in the investigation.
I like it a lot better then the random searches, which really won’t do shit in a system as large as NYC’s. As a result of the searches they probably won’t catch any militants, but they’ll find and arrest people for a lot of other things, like carrying weed.
75% of Gotham probably will say the wrong thing when asked "What's the capital of Wyoming?". It doesn't mean they're right, now does it?
That pollster's an idiot. What does one have to do with the other? Limited, "random" bag searches that people can decline won't keep us from being blown up. Only a true simpleton (or a pollster who sees the world in A, B, C or D) would say it's one or the other.