I get that - but note that I was responding to someone claiming that crime is “exploding” in a pretty general sense, which it just isn’t. If someone is being m

I get that - but note that I was responding to someone claiming that crime is “exploding” in a pretty general sense, which it just isn’t. If someone is being materially impacted by some crime local to them then it’s not unreasonable to advocate for change to mitigate it. I’d suggest that mitigating crimes like people pooping on sidewalks (or whatever) would better be done through means other than overt video surveillance (to take it back to the OP a bit) and rather that maybe overall things might improve through policies designed to ameliorate the societal conditions that lead to people being in a situation where they end up pooping in the sidewalk (or whatever) in the first place.