It's not just Atlanta. It's already in your neighborhood. Try driving down a main boulevard in your town at 10pm to see the kinds of yellow lights that triple as lights, cameras, and microphones. It is full surveillance. And it's throughout the night. There may be a central station where all the video feeds end up. What I've experienced myself is that you've got unmarked security cars or vans that respond to a car in an empty parking lot, and that security detail will drive by your car and flash its lights on you, but because the security agent has no police force, just police intel, he won't be arresting you unless you're doing something illegal or highly suspicious. Then they'll call for a black and white.
Homeowners, like many of us, want to drive people out. The cities are too crowded these days. No one likes it. We all resent it. "Go home!" comes the chant from some. "Stay out" goes another. So citizen becomes a deputized security asset snooping on people they don't recognize at a neighborhood park, as though the stranger is doing something or preparing to do something illegal. It'll be up to you to prove that you're not doing anything illegal once an illegal calls the cops on you.
Don't accept it as some modern improvement, unless you like the the surveillance state that would make the 1985 East German STASI state blush. Today's surveillance capability means that the satellites in the earth's orbit can detect what you're eating in your car that's parked in your work's parking lot. It's a rigged game. At some point, we've got to fight back.
There are no more unlit culdesacs in America.
