NBC 13, a Tuscaloosa Alabama affiliate, notes that law enforcement officials may be using their traffic cameras for monitoring more than just traffic. (emphasis mine)

Images from a traffic camera that was used instead to monitor passersby near the University of Alabama led to the arrests of three people allegedly misbehaving on the street, police said Tuesday.

Meanwhile, officials said they were still investigating who had diverted the focus of the camera from traffic -- where it normally is used to monitor vehicles -- to pedestrians, particularly young women.

The remote-control camera, located at an intersection near a row of nightclubs, usually shows traffic. But officials said someone in a state trooper office diverted the camera to focus on pedestrians in the pre-dawn hours last Friday.

Footage broadcast citywide on a cable TV channel showed several people, and the camera zoomed in on the breasts and buttocks of several young women walking past.

A 22-year-old woman was charged with public lewdness about 4:10 a.m. after baring her breasts in front of the camera, said Capt. David Hartin, and a 25-year-old man was charged with disorderly conduct moments later after allegedly grabbing his crotch as cars went by.

While nubile young women showing their goodies to drunken college kids is obviously a heinous crime, apparently using publicly owned traffic cameras for your own private peep show isn't. Just how long is this "investigation" going to take? I wouldn't think it would be too hard to track down who the camera operators were during that shift. Perhaps "investigators" are still combing through the captured footage frame by frame.