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They were aware of the issue and may have stepped up alternative security measures during the outage.

Never assume otherwise, i'd recommend.

In the short term...

always. Someone watching cameras of people driving isn't going to do anything to "make us safer". It was never about public safety.

But it may be about keeping those in power safe from the public.

And here we thought that "public safety" was about keeping the public safe, while actually they were talking about keeping themselves safe from the public.

In Washington DC, public safety is more focused on the safety of most importantly the president, followed by elected officials like congressmen.

Which implies that we're perfectly safe without these systems.

CCTV does not provide safety, they are primarily used for evidence gathering in criminal investigations.