Perhaps It’s Another of Lori Sturdevant’s Spending Ideas
By Mitch Berg
Sean Aqui from Midtopia – a gratifyingly prolific MOB blog – notes that our new surveillance culture may have officially gone too far:
Welcome to Buhl, Minn. Population 1,000. It’s a small, sleepy community where nothing much ever happens. Indeed, it disbanded its police force in 1999.
Which is why it clearly needs surveillance cameras to keep the peace.
Local law enforcement officials are pushing a plan to place six surveillance cameras around this Iron Range town of less than a thousand people.
Sgt. Pat McKenzie of the St. Louis County Sheriff’s office, which has overseen law enforcement in Buhl since the city disbanded its police department in 1999, said it’d be a tool for solving and deterring crime. But some residents are asking: What crime?
Scratch your head, ask “why?”…
…and read Midtopia more often. It’s a great, and undertrafficked, blog.
