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And this is a council that’s been happy to do the bidding of a small number of self-appointed police reformers who believe city police officers have behavior problems.

Last month, at the same meeting at which it narrowly approved a pilot project to record some of that behavior via police body cameras, the council’s Finance Committee unanimously approved adding 18 surveillance cameras around the city.

Those cameras come in addition to the 800 or so cameras the city has indoors and outdoors, including 60 Downtown, and the who-knows-how-many privately owned cameras police are able to draw upon. And “the quality of surveillance cameras is light-years better than what we were seeing just a few years back,” said police spokesman Joel DeSpain.

In a way, we are citizens under constant government surveillance.

This isn’t necessarily new or bad. Lots of cities have surveillance cameras, and if you’re among those who believe the creepiness of being watched is outweighed by cameras’ ability to help solve crime, then I guess that’s OK.

But turnabout is only fair play.