If you don't know it by now, Big Brother is here, and he's keeping his eye on you, all in the interest of safety and the good of the public.

If you walk into a grocery store in San Diego County, it's highly probable that you'll see some television screens, and if you're lucky, you'll see your smiling face on them.

If you get gas at almost any service gasoline station, inside there are a couple of television screens keeping an eye on everyone at the gas pumps.

If you go to any mall, don't look now, but there's a security room with dozens, sometimes hundreds, of television monitors keeping an eye on every square inch of the area outside the individual stores. And, of course, the individual stores have their own monitoring systems.

If you go to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, almost every street now is monitored by video cameras.

Here in San Diego County, we also have what is called a "red light camera" at many traffic intersections. They are set to take several pictures of the driver, and the front and rear license plates, and the car as it goes through the intersection after the traffic signal has turned red under the guise that Big Brother watching you cuts down on accidents and, by association, injuries and fatalities. To find the red-light intersections in your city, click here to go to photoenforced.com.

From May 2008 to April 2009, 8,261 citations were issued in the City of San Diego by the red-light camera program. The amount of each ticket is $436, of which the City only gets $157, with the rest going to the company that made the cameras and runs them, for a total of $3.6 million in fines, with the City getting $1.3 million. Personally, I think the City is getting taken. Anyway....

If you're driving in the City of San Diego, here are the current red light camera locations and the number of tickets issued from May 2008 and April 2009:

1. Del Mar Heights Road and El Camino Real - 16
2. Genesee Avenue and North Torrey Pines Road - new
3. Mira Mesa Boulevard and Scranton Road - 78
4. Mira Mesa Boulevard and Westview Parkway - 64
5. Garnet Avenue and Mission Bay Drive - 466
6. Clairemont Mesa Boulevard and Convoy Street - 60
7. Balbo Avenue and Kearny Villa Road - new
8. Aero Drive and Murphy Canyon Road - 1,839
9. Camino del Rio North and Mission Center Road - 197
10. Camino del Rio North and Qualcomm Way - 139
11. Cleveland Avenue and Washington Street - 178
12. Rosecrans Street and Nimitz Boulevard - new
13. Grape Street and North Harbor Drive - 4,503
14. 10th Avenue and A Street - 676
15. 10th Avenue and F Street - 45