Big Brother is Watching You in Kings Point, NY

Kings Point, New York is small town America. The town has about 5,000 residents, 3.3 miles of land, .6 square miles of bodies of water, 1401 households, more Iranians per capita than any other town in the United States (29%), and 44 traffic cameras to watch you closely. Yes, big brother is starting to take shape in small town America.

According to Newsday, the cameras can compare the license plate of every car going into the village against federal and state crime databases such as most-wanted lists, stolen vehicle alerts and suspected terrorist files.

When the project is completed, 44 cameras will monitor 19 entrances into the village in what may be one of the most extensive municipal tracking programs anywhere.

The number of cameras equals about one for every 120 people in the village of 5,305 people. Kings Point, a community of million-dollar homes, sits on the Great Neck peninsula, surrounded on three sides by water.

Does this have anything to do with homeland security because of its Iranian population. Probably not. This probably has to do with the 71% of the other people living in the town and the occasional visitor. Good grief. Do you realize there is over 10 traffic cameras per square mile in this town? How can you miss a license plate when they are at the entrances of the town, especially when you consider the two in on the outer edge of a peninsula.

This isn't about safety. This is overkill, overkill that we see in the big cities sold under the guise of safety, but are often used for other things.