Spycams on Patrol

Chicago's two-fisted street cops have a new kind of backup: a citywide crime-fighting surveillance network. (Smile for the camera.) By Noah Shachtman from Wired magazine.

Three miles away, in a bunkerlike, red granite building near Greektown, Ron Huberman watches the young man on a PC screen. "You see that guy?" asks Huberman, the 33-year-old chief of Chicago's Office of Emergency Management and Communications. "He's pitching dope - you can tell. Fucker." ...

Source: Wired News