[chmod775]

>We will just have to figure out other ways to stop the terrorists.. (or stop creating them in the first place)

Other ways? All this mass surveillance has hardly helped so far. All you get is nice footage after someone blew something up.

By the way these surveillance cameras and systems are stupidly expensive. For most installations they're so expensive you could pay for a police officer permanently stationed for years at each of those public spaces and subway stations you were going to surveil. That would actually help making them safer.

On top of that there's many other ways to use that money to save lives where it matters.

For instance you could use the money you were going to use on surveilling public places to make them physically safer instead: less accident-prone, install public access defibrillators, etc. Statistically you're going to save so many magnitudes more lives that way, it's not even funny.

People seem to assume that heart attacks is something that happens to other people, while terrorism of all things is a personal threat to them.

[raxxorrax]

And we have a lot of parasitic security companies that induce heavy costs on taxpayers without tangible results. The problem is that "feeling safe" has become a metric because people are bad at math and understanding risks.