Atlanta
Atlanta is a big city with a lot of crime, so you can see why officials would want to keep an eye on folks. That said, there is a limit to which doing that actually stops people from doing dumb, illegal things. ATL is said to “lead” America in surveillance and allegedly has as many as 25,000 CCTV cameras stationed throughout the city. Matched against a population of roughly 500,000, that’s about 49 cameras per 1,000 people. Of the cameras in the CCTV network, Comparitech claims that some 12,800 are “available” to the Atlanta Police Department for monitoring, which seems like a lot. All the stats together make Atlanta the most surveilled city in America, according to Comparitech’s 2021 study.
