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>Daley: Cameras will make us safer
>January 31, 2006
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>BY FRAN SPIELMAN City Hall Reporter Advertisement
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>Mayor Daley on Monday embraced a radical plan to require every licensed
>Chicago business open more than 12 hours a day to install indoor and
>outdoor cameras.
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>"Block clubs, community organizations want cameras. ... They can't walk
>down the street. ... Their kids have to go around a corner away from
>the gang-bangers. You can't walk to church. You can't get on the CTA.
>... Cameras really prevent much crime. Cameras also solve a lot of
>crime. The terrorist attacks in London were solved by cameras. The
>whole incident was solved by cameras," Daley said.
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>Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce President Jerry Roper estimated that
>12,000 businesses -- maybe more -- are open for more than 12 hours a
>day and, therefore, would be covered by the sweeping camera mandate.
>That includes roughly 7,000 restaurants, more than 100 hotels and
>scores of retail establishments.
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>"Are there enough cameras in production to do what they're asking us to
>do?" Roper said.
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>Businesses will close earlier?
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>If the mayor's endorsement translates into City Council approval of the
>ordinance championed by Ald. Ray Suarez (31st), business leaders will
>demand tax breaks and a phase-in similar to the sprinkler ordinance
>that gives older high-rises 12 years to comply, Roper said.
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>And he predicted the requirement would ultimately translate into fewer
>hours and lower wages.
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>"Some places will take a look at the cost and say, 'We'll only be open
>for one shift or a shift and a half. They'll take a look at their last
>two hours and say, 'I'm not making that much anyway. I'll just close
>earlier.' Employees will lose that money," Roper said.
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>Two years ago, with help from a $5.1 million federal homeland security
>grant, the city announced plans to install 250 cameras at locations
>thought to be at high risk of a terrorist attack, link them and 2,000
>existing cameras to the 911 center and equip them all with software
>capable of spotting "suspicious and unusual behavior."
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>City Hall is now finalizing a contract for "Operation Virtual Shield,"
>Daley's Big Brother plan to link 1,000 miles of "sometimes stand-alone
>fiber" into a unified "homeland security grid" -- complete with sensors
>to monitor the city's water supply and detect chemical and biological
>weapons.
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>The city also made an unprecedented offer to the private sector.
>Businesses that agreed to pay an undisclosed fee would have cameras
>outside their entrances and even in their stairwells monitored by the
>911 center.
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>Last summer, the Chicago Sun-Times reported that Boeing Co. had become
>the first Chicago business to join the camera network.
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>On Monday, City Hall disclosed that a dozen corporations -- ranging
>from utilities to companies in the La Salle Street financial district
>-- also have signed on. The fee is being negotiated.
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>"Downtown, we'll take a building [that has] cameras. We'll retrofit
>those cameras. ... We're working with Navy Pier. We're working with
>McCormick Place, retrofitting cameras, every building downtown," the
>mayor said.
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>London has 200,000 cameras monitoring virtually every public move its
>citizens make. Daley wouldn't go so far as to say he wants to duplicate
>the London network. He would only say he's "looking for more and more
>cameras all over."
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>'It's their land,' Daley says
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>Chicago's surveillance network could be dramatically enhanced if
>businesses open more than 12 hours a day are required to install and
>monitor cameras to record what goes on inside the place and in the
>parking lot. The only exceptions to the edict proposed by Suarez would
>be washrooms and changing areas.
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>Last week, business leaders lined up in opposition to the mandate on
>grounds it could add anywhere from $5,000 to $20,000 to their costs --
>even before monitoring expenses.
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>But, Daley said Monday he's all for the idea.
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>"Look at the police radio [log]. ... Why should we be clearing every
>parking lot out for the owner of the drive-in? That's their
>responsibility. It's their land," Daley said.
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>The mayor endorsed the camera mandate after unveiling a $4 million
>incident center at the 911 building that, among other things, will
>serve as the new home for Snow Command.

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