When police in Memphis launched the first SkyCop surveillance cameras in 2007, department chiefs could hardly have imagined the most horrific caught by the network after 16 years in operation would be carried out by its own officers.The clearest video of the brutal January 7 attack that killed was filmed by one of the 2,100 cameras installed around the city at a cost of more than $10 million. They are supposed to make people safer. However, critics feel Americans are trading their privacy for a tool that helps catch criminals but struggles to fulfill its promise of preventing crime.
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