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[ Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2003 ]

Letter to the Editor
Surveillance cameras should not be indefinite

Missing in the plans for surveillance of Beaver Canyon is a plan to dismantle it.

This is being sold to the public as a specific effect of a specific cause, a necessary evil to discourage mobs from rioting, or to catch those responsible when they do.

But what if they don't?

Are we to be surveilled in 2020 simply because of a drunken crowd way back in the '90s?

No one wants surveillance, but if it absolutely necessary, as the Borough Council has deemed, why not at least plan to get rid of it when it no longer absolutely needed?

Even prisoners get breaks for good behavior.

Brian Tuchalski
junior - media studies
 



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