what's the problem? OCP and RoboCop ftw. if surveillance is good then automated surveillance is double plus good

jokes aside - automating CCTV footage analysis makes it cheaper so it's the inevitable next step. a harder thing to do would be to even out Gini coefficient to decrease demand for surveillance (well harder without tax reform but that is virtually impossible to get American public to vote in their own interest on the count of media being privately owned and whatnot - to my knowledge neither presidential candidate in the upcoming national election has indicated they have any intent on closing the offshore tax loophole for the multinationals and they are both furiously supported by each of their respective would-be electoral college)

anyhoo - before we go all the way to the bottom of that rabbit hole - surveillance to prevent crime is inevitable in societies with inequality off the charts. technology doesn't drive the demand for surveillance but demand for surveillance will put tech for surveillance into GDP

thus making it profitable and interweaving it into the economy as well as giving lobbying political power to security companies with the effect compounding over time (see military-industrial complex for another example)

imagine when security companies start mergers and acquisitions until you get to the subsidiary conglomerate version of Disney in security - Corpolice Inc.

now imagine Corpolice Inc. being taken over by Comcast-LockheedMartin

yikes

come to think of it - imaging Comcast-LockheedMartin. double yikes