WKSL out of Salt Lake City Utah is shedding more insight into what happens when surveillance cameras are installed in high crime public parks. According to the first article, four cameras were installed in Pioneer Park to battle the drug dealing problem. The police were looking to achieve three objectives:
• Deter crime
• Document crime
• [...]
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Adrian G. Uribarri from the Chi*Town Daily News reports:
A $23 million proposal to place more than 3,000 cameras around public-housing developments has alarmed privacy advocates and raised questions over the effectiveness of surveillance systems.
Under the plan, the Chicago Housing Authority would install the cameras near 16,000 apartments in the city, about three quarters of [...]
According to WJZ.com Baltimore officials are convinced crime will go down if criminals know police are watching them. The city calls it's surveillance system "CityWatch" and installed 76 downtown cameras in 2004 and is increasing the camera count to 500 across the city today.
So far, CityWatch has captured five homicides and a dozen [...]
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This is a story of three neighboring communities with higher than average crime rates: East Orange, Newark, and Irvington. All three communities are located in New Jersey.
It started in 2007 when East Orange declared that their embrace of CCTV and gunshot detectors lowered crime rates and murders from 2003 to 2006. During that very [...]
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Two years ago, the city of Dallas started installing public CCTV cameras. Today the total camera count is 96. Two weeks ago, Mayor Pro Tem Elba Garcia stated, "Cameras have helped reduce crime in such a dramatic manner that we are victims of our own success".
This pro-camera statement is not out of the norm for politicians. [...]
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Earlier this month, the Chicagotalks news blog wrote an article questioning the effectiveness of Chicago's 15,000 CCTV camera system. This is a great article and points out the fact that cameras are being installed without any detailed effectiveness report being handed back to the constituents. A "Marketing/effectiveness" document can be found here that discusses [...]
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