From the advent of a video camera capturing Rodney King being beaten by the Los Angeles Police, it has been the cellphones and video cameras and body cams that have brought justice where justice once did not exist.
The idea of video cameras attached high up on street lamps might seem an invasion of privacy to some, but they could serve as a big check on our police -- and a tremendous deterrent to crime --as the future rolls toward us.
Keep the cameras from staring into people's back yards, but by the nature of being on a public street, you are out in public. You should expect that others will see you.
An eye in the sky -- a video camera attached to a street light -- contributed to the video footage of the beating of Tyre Nichols. It contributed to exposing police violence. And, when signage is displayed announcing the eye in the sky is watching you, criminal activity is deterred.
Body cams can conveniently be turned off, but the street pole camera cannot. We need more videos staring down from our street lamps.
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