And I have a problem with videos and pictures of people deemed "suspicious" by some person on the street becoming part of a massive master police file - that who knows how it could be used later.  What if I'm a teacher, and I'm filmed looking at the features of a building I want to talk to my class about?  Sure, an "investigation" would absolve me of any wrongdoing, but what if questions are asked at my school, what if that becomes part of my employment file - what kind of damage can or will this do to people whose "suspicious activity" is just the product of overactive, paranoid imaginations encouraged by police?

I live 25 miles north of Baltimore and work in the city, and every day, as I drive to work, I have to look at over-the-highway signs that often say: "Report Suspicious Activity" along with a phone number.  Thank God these signs sometimes are used to advise of traffic problems, and they use them for Amber Alerts, too, which is fine.

As many of us had feared all along, the apparatus of the perpertual security state continues to grow incrementally as most people become ever more acclimated to the sacrifices and infringements on personal liberty that they've been asked to make in the name of security.

But on the other hand... had an elderly lady who lived directly across the street, she had to move into assisted living. No electricity or water running to the house.

Someone noticed lights inside the house, called the police. People had begun to use it as a party/drug hangout.