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
• [...]
Tags: Another Politician Claims Success·Public Parks·Publically Owned CCTV
Dennis Wyatt from the Manteca Bulletin reports:
There was a time when parents were reluctant to allow their kids to go to the Manteca skate park.
Set off a ways from Center Street along the Tidewater Bikeway, there were constant problems ranging from fighting and bullying to the flashing of weapons.
Virtually all of those problems disappeared when Manteca [...]
There is no evidence that cameras deter violent crime, however, there is some evidence surfacing that CCTV combined with video analytics, motion detection, and email alerts is actually stopping vandalism in public parks.
According to the Baltimore Sun, 5 parks will be fitted with this equipment based on the success of a pilot program from Reistertown park.
The [...]
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