Love the fact that it was a Lord and Taylor camera that helped!!!

I always have 2 cameras with me

Don, just wondering how "very very young" you were when you drank too much, causing you (in more ways than one) to engage in public peeing.... I mean, were you around 4? 14? 24? ;^)

Big brother is watching; however, there was a lot of information that went unused by law enforcement. The real heros were the public, social media and the surveillance cameras. This should have never happened based on the information Russia provided in 2011. Very disappointed in the justice system.

Big Brother and/or Google is watching - just another reason to always look your best... hope they don't catch me on Sunday mornings when I run out to get the paper in my jammies!

Interesting on the cameras. I posted a blog by Fred's oracle to Gotham Politics about data and tech that spoke to the role of cameras and not just the surveillance kind in the apprehension of the thugs. When I was counsel to the chair of NYC Council's committee on public safety, I pushed without success for legislation that required the posting of notices of the existing of public (as in government-operated) surveillance cameras. I still believe in that. I have no problem with the cameras being deployed more frequently.

America has won most of its wars through superior technology, and the cameras are but the latest new tool in our country's arsenal.

I may have told some of you how technology won the tank Battle of North Africa against the Germans. But for the uninitiated, here goes:

The Germans had Panzer tanks which had Mercedes-Benz engines, and the American M-4 tanks were built in the Cadillac factory in Detroit. Now, in order to turn a tank (there's no steering wheel), one track has to be going faster than the other, and since engine technology at that time was fairly primitive (the Cadillac V-8 made about 115 horsepower in today's world), both tanks needed two engines in order to function. Now, with two operators clutching and shifting the Panzers, there was a need for a soldier to coordinate all of that.

But the American tanks were far, far more maneuverable due to a contemporary invention that most of us still use today on a daily basis...it was called the Hydra-Matic Drive. Or, as it's known today, the automatic transmission. The Germans had to clutch and shift and coordinate, while the M-4 tanks ran circles around the Panzers.

Technology, my fellow Gothamites is the key to winning the (long) war against terrorism.