Bossin' the Bars
Surveillance cameras – aimed at government buildings, train platforms and intersections here – might soon be required at corner taverns and swanky nightclubs.Â
Mayor Richard Daley wants to require bars open until 4 a.m. to install security cameras that can identify people entering and leaving the building. Other businesses open longer than 12 hours a day, including convenience stores, eventually would have to do the same.
People are pretty freaked out about this. What's the big deal? I assume that no one would object if compliance were voluntary. So it must just be the coerced nature of it. Are we loathe to tell a business owner how to run his bar? But I thought that was all the rage these days. Isn't that what anti-smoking ordinances that apply to private businesses are all about?