Video Surveillance Coming To Your Neighborhood

Since 9/11, more and more California cities are monitoring residents using video surveillance cameras on public streets and plazas. The ACLU has just released the first-ever survey of video surveillance in California, where 37 cities have implemented programs and 10 cities are considering them as crime reducing measures. The survey is critical of these unregulated programs claiming they don't reduce crime, they take funding from community policing, and they raise serious individual privacy concerns. Guest host Ted Chen discusses the proliferation of video surveillance cameras in Southern California cities with Peter Bibring, staff attorney at the ACLU of Southern California, and Los Angeles City Council President Eric Garcetti.

Since 9/11, more and more California cities are monitoring residents using video surveillance cameras on public streets and plazas. The ACLU has just released the first-ever survey of video surveillance in California, where 37 cities have implemented programs and 10 cities are considering them as crime reducing measures. The survey is critical of these unregulated programs claiming they don't reduce crime, they take funding from community policing, and they raise serious individual privacy concerns. Guest host Ted Chen discusses the proliferation of video surveillance cameras in Southern California cities with Peter Bibring, staff attorney at the ACLU of Southern California, and Los Angeles City Council President Eric Garcetti.