Are you disregarding rational and reasonable justifications to maintain a position of "regulatory capture?"  That the APD wanted cameras included after the murder of three cab drivers in the late 90s to help with collecting evidence and to deter similar future crimes?  That the municipality wanted it to better track conduct of drivers and help protect them from false claims by passengers or vice versa?

There seems to be no point in presenting inconvenient facts to you because you have already come to your conclusion of regulatory capture and closed your mind to anything that doesn't agree with it.