Atlanta looking to go the surveillance camera route:

City officials are seeking $13.7 million in federal cash amid a series of high-profile crimes in recent months: a champion boxer shot dead in the street, a City Council member carjacked at gunpoint, a rash of armed robberies near Georgia Tech.
The system Atlanta plans to use could store […]

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Associated Press apparently planning to move a story on the Lancaster cameras this evening, just saw a graphic for it. We really are on the cutting edge nationally; Lancaster, ever five years behind most trends, is out in front on this one. To many’s chagrin.

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Been following the discussion on the cameras in earnest, it really seems as if this issue is heating up - and on the verge, perhaps, of becoming a national story, or an even bigger national story. CBS News is sniffing around; maybe another network as well. As posted elsewhere, an indy documentary filmmaker-type is tackling […]

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From a Lancaster Bureau of Police press release this morning, about a shooting that took place on North Ann Street at 2:47 a.m.:
The victim, a city resident, was interviewed at the hospital and was inconsistent with his account of the shooting. The victim’s account did not match that of witnesses in regards to many details, […]

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Will Bunch, citing the L.A. Times story on Lancaster, makes another good point on the surveillance camera issue:
Actually, Mowrer is wrong — nothing could more un-American than preventing people from watching who goes in or out his front door, provided that they are standing on a public street or sidewalk where citizens have the right to […]

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