Security Cameras in the Haight?

Via Eye on Blogs yesterday — add security cameras to foot patrols in the Haight. The Haight Ashbury Improvement Association is chipping in $100 toward security cameras and DVRs for the first 10 business owners to install them, the aim being to deter crime via the ever-present, watchful eye of the Man, and to "give the police the ability to catch criminal behavior in the act." That sound you hear is the Summer of Love turning in its grave. [HAIA via Eye on Blogs and Oakland Focus, previously]