A Nationwide CCTV Public Camera System

This system would be like the one in England which has basically made most old world crimes obsolete, besides making many a fail video.  Societies with CCTV systems are safer, more futuristic and friendly, just ask the British...someone is going to record you at all times, so it might as well be ourselves through our own government.
 
My idea, being from an American republican democracy would be to allow citizens to monitor their own new camera grid--a great idea all-round.  Less official operators would be required, and more eyes could be watching ourselves at all times...crimes and suspicious activity seen in progress could be referred to official operators who could have options to cut public feeds and direct to proper authorities, as well as edit for the public records, just like any video of any public case recorded by public cameras already, such as body cams and dash cams.  We could even work on systems which could transmit certain types of live camera feeds used by public servants such as policemen, or even control which members of the public could be allowed to view such things via their public eGov accounts, that way people who just want to watch live cops all the time wouldn't get too addicted, without working their way up in Government and society, being restricted to being able to watch feeds from perhaps their own block or zipcode, with only maybe a few hours per day or week less or more allotted for them to explore their country digitally.
 
Another benefit would be saving expenditure on public safety, more cameras means more criminals aware of them equals less potential for crimes which means less police.  Even so, police officers would not need to patrol like they regularly do…it might be more economical for them to be at a station and to patrol digitally over the cameras, and then auxiliarize that with things like drones and small blimps, and even go a step further with personal flying fast-response craft.  With the future coming on and the government returning to the people as we normalize from technology’s burping, police duties could return to how it was in the old days, when the most upstanding, fearsome member of the community was adorned with a Sheriff’s badge.  Eventually officiality might be dawned through extra-civil training, and your average cop might just be Joe next door, who works from home and has a real live bat cave complete with a fast response bat-jet with a nonlethal weapon mounted to it and a personal drone that follows him run by AI...
 
Other systems and goings on could tie in--from better observation and management, to simple things like having extra eyes naturally watching cameras around high profile VIP events, naturally preventing things like assassinations and mass shootings.  These systems of half-public/half-private surveillance blankets would help balance out the public/private relations in society a little more broadly, stimulating greater participation and ultimately accuracy in our social images, though most definitely would encourage a whole new epoch at failblog.org.