If recent news serves as any indication, the District is becoming a little too camera-happy.

The Examiner reports today that D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams is pondering placing surveillance cameras in parts of Adams Morgan, where crowds of drunken revelers have been known to start fights, get robbed, and otherwise act unruly.

Council-member Jim Graham, whose ward includes the neighborhood, isn’t too keen on the idea, though:

That’s too much George Orwell for me. You’d have to put the whole neighborhood under surveillance.Who wants to live under the watchful eye of a camera?

And so will start the debate over balancing civil liberties against public safety, with camera advocates praising them as effective crime fighting tools and opponents accusing city officials of not thinking of more creative and less controversial methods for crime prevention.

If there is one thing that no one can deny it’s that watching that many people scarf down jumbo slice at 3 a.m. would be priceless footage.