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"I know a lot of people are concerned about big brother. My response to that is, if you're not doing anything wrong, why should you worry about it?"

While his words may be technically correct - a better way of expressing that opinion may have been: 'When you are in a in a public place where the reasonable expectation of privacy does not exist, don't do anything illegal or what you don't want to be caught on camera.'

At a minimum this guy needs a public affairs spokesperson or media advisor to tell him how he is percieved.

I read the article and I didn't see where he was quoted as saying he was suggesting putting cameras INSIDE private buildings. The word "IN" was the reporter's words - not the Chief's What I got from this piece of 'journalism', (and don't get me started on reporter's biases and hidden agendas which - this piece smacked of), was putting cameras in PUBLIC areas such as apartment parking lots and street areas.
I don't live in Houston so I have no first-hand experience with the PD chief so i can't speak as a local but why is this any different from red-lite cameras? They are becoming more and more commonplace statewide and as time goes on I don't see it subsiding.

I'm not trying to start a debate on civil-liberties. I wanted to bring up a question.