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originally posted by: TheResidentAlien
a reply to: AaarghZombies
You can easily purchase 100's of cameras easily enough and have them to your door in a couple of days. They do not necessarily all need to be the same cameras. You would choose based on needs of the location.
You would not necessarily need permission if it's city property (lamp posts / telephone poles). You can also tap into existing power.
You don't necessarily need to run additional cabling (4G VPN routers). Hard lines would be preferable, but for the fastest rollout possible...
Installing cameras themselves is a pretty trivial matter so long as there is power available at the install site (I have installed a dozen hardwired cameras in a day on my own). A team of, lets say 30 installers, could conceivably get a couple hundred cameras up and running over the course of a long weekend. The monitoring station(s) would probably be the trickier element to get up.
Bottom line, the tech exists and is reasonably cheap. The cost to government, for a professional company to install, monitor and maintain however is going to be VERY expensive.