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Video Surveillance Camera Business Put At $9.2 Billion

By David Badertscher, PLL

Source: Crime & Justice News

"The video camera surveillance business has doubled

over five years, to $9.2 billion, and estimated that it

would more than double again by 2010, to more than

$21 billion, say security market analysts J. P. Freeman

Co. in a report quoted by MSNBC. The network cites

previously reported plans by Washington, D.C., and

Chicago to expand their camera networks. In other

places: Rochester, N.Y., police announced a program

last week to install 50 more cameras across the city;

Seattle approved a plan this month to expand the use

of cameras in the city's parks, at a cost of $400,000.

The Austin, Tx., police chief has called for round-the-

clock camera surveillance across the city before the

end of the year.

The American Civil Liberties Union is skeptical. 'To

the extent that these cameras are there to protect the

public safety, it's fine, but once they cross that

threshold of getting into areas where people have a

reasonable expectation of privacy, they can expect to

be challenged,' said Redditt Hudson of the ACLU's

Eastern Missouri affiliate. Privacy advocates face a

difficult task, however. 'So far, I've been stopped by

two citizens who have thanked me and said they've

been praying for these,' said Kansas City police Sgt.

Patrick Rauzi of the city's camera project."

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