The Lines Displayed, 65th Day of Autumn, 525 M.E. (Betelgeuse): Atlanta is the most surveilled city in the United States. We not only lead the country, we have more than twice as many cameras per capita as second-ranked Washington, DC and more than four times as many as third-ranked Philadelphia. Worldwide, only cities in China have more cameras per capita.

It's been reported that Atlanta has 124.14 surveillance cameras per 1,000 people, including 50 CCTV camera per 1,000. More than 60,000 public and private cameras, including those on public transportation, in schools and on officers, are linked to the police. The Connect Atlanta program even grants the police access to business and residential private security footage and Ring cameras.

We may not be occupied by the Stable Genius' federal military - yet - or by some other states' National Guard, but Atlanta's Big Brother surveillance system is already a form of oppression. When I take my alternating day walks along sidewalks through various neighborhoods (I got a 9.1-mile Harrison in today), how many CCTV cameras, plate readers, private home security cameras, and passing vehicles are capturing my coming and going and passing by and sending it to some police database?  What if I had the bad luck of passing an apartment building as a crime was occurring there? "Mr. Shokai, why did you choose to walk along Peachtree on that particular day?" "At the stop sign, why did you turn left instead of right like you do on most days?" "You don't live in that neighborhood, what business did you have going there?"

I read today that the EPA may or may not be working on technology to detect the abortion drug mifepristone in waste water. Twenty-five Republican (of course) members of Congress signed a letter to the agency asking about the potential. Detecting traces of the drug in waste water would indicate that a chemical abortion occurred in the area served by the sewer, and the location could quickly be narrowed down to an individual apartment building or school or public building. The piss police. 

Big Brother on telephone poles, traffic lights, and doorbells. The piss police in the sewers. Remember, amerika, you voted for this.