Most large cities in the world have had thousands of public CCTV cameras for decades. Traffic enforcement cameras have been super normal for even longer.

I am not talking about those. These cameras were targeted and pointing directly into peoples windows, set up by the local police department, under the guise of being electric utility boxes.

Here are two sources on the matter:

https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy_commons/comments/gin79z/...

https://www.fox13memphis.com/news/activists-find-camera-insi...

In August 2020, this was unbelievable, and it would have been considered reasonable (if wrong) to dismiss OP as paranoid, especially for the subreddit they posted in.