Don't worry. I'm not going to make this blog "The Daily Brews You Can Use," but this story is already two days old, so I didn't want to hold it back until tomorrow:
Milwaukee's taverns and nightclubs could be required to install security cameras to keep an eye on customers both inside and outside, under an ordinance proposed by downtown Ald. Bob Bauman.
Readers of this blog know that I have no problem with security cameras. I wouldn't care if there were cameras in every public (public) place in America. A bar is semi-public: privately owned, but open to the public. I detest the idea of making a person spend money to further a public purpose, unless that person directly creates the need for the expenditure. I don't like the ADA, for instance. That's a remarkably-expensive piece of legislation that put enormous costs on private business owners through the United States (mostly, to build ramps that, I'm told, will be obsolete in a few years because of wheelchair engineering advances through nanotechnology--but that's a different story). In this case, do the bar owners create the need for cameras because fights break out in their joints? That strikes me as a stretch.
