Assessing the Camera

Surveillance cameras may record everything within their range, but they prevent nothing. How many videos have been broadcast of convenience store clerks being murdered in full view of "security cameras"? How often have closed-circuit television cameras recorded acts of violence, yet the perpetrators are never caught? If the government is doing the watching, are we more or less secure? If Big Brother is watching, are we not inherently less free? Under the glare of the unblinking eye, we are neither safe nor free.