I Spy with My Little Eye
I'm afraid I've broken my personal commitment to at least one update a week. It is very easy to fall out of the habit of making them, especially after falling out of the habit of keeping up on the news and Internet things in general. I can say that there are many things in the pipeline for March, including numerous Neighborhoods updates and book reviews, so stay tuned.
A quick look at the wires shows that the buzz around town is the proposal by Mayor Daley to require businesses to install cameras. This is, of course, in addition to the public cameras operated by the CPD. This is all old news at the time of this writing, but what has the wires aflame is a Tribune poll that shows that 80% of Chicagoans support the cameras. Count me among them, tentatively. Not that I'm not entirely unconcerned about privacy issues, or that I think that they'll make a real difference in crime, but anything that reduces the perception of crime or danger is potentially a step forward in this divided city.
[Feb 27, 2006] | [Chicago] | # | G
