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Police hope more cameras on city streets will both help deter and bust criminals.
At yesterday's monthly Toronto Police Services Board meeting, the board said it's planning to deploy up to 20 mobile closed-circuit cameras in high-crime areas.
Police are finalizing a $2-million funding agreement with the province to help with the camera program, Deputy Police Chief Kim Derry said.
"Even if it doesn't stop the crime, it certainly gives us the ability to track and identify subjects responsible," Derry said. The cameras are slated to hit city streets in the next few months.
[edit on 29-9-2006 by DoNotBelieveThem]
Originally posted by Umbrax
There are talks of doing it in Calgary also.
Local news said “senior” officers think it is a good idea.
The plan worked in the downtown community of Alexandra Park, according to local residents. Cameras came in after a man was shot in broad daylight with children around. One neighbour named Cathy said the criminals in her neck of the woods aren't quite as brazen or active as they once were.
"I never used to go out at night. Now I go out and I enjoy my life," she said.
But she says cameras don't stop crime, they just force it into another neighbourhood.
"If people want to do anything, they do them where the cameras aren't," she added.
[edit on 29-9-2006 by DoNotBelieveThem]
Originally posted by DeusEx
Of course, when they came for me, there was no one left to object.
The fallacies in the concept of these cameras are amazing. Drunken brawlers, pickpockets, and auto thieves aren't gonna be scared of them. What about in winter, when everyone's so bundled up it's hard to tell who they are?
Silk, let me ask you this- are crimes actually prevented by these cameras? Because all the stats out of the UK I see show a huge rise in violent criminal behavior. They might help catch criminals after the fact, yes. But, when a mugger's busted your arm or hit you over the head and jacked your wallet, it's a little late then, isn't it?
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Originally posted by billybob
check this post out. everything ties together, once your far enough down the rabbit hole.
this post is only scratching the surface. there is a deep and long-standing masonic tie-in, too.
serve whom?
protect whom?
Originally posted by Odium
The purpose of a camera is not to stop crime. The purpose of the camera is to catch people in the acts of crime. You forget that roads, streets, etc, are public property they're not yours as the individual. Due to this, there's no real invasion of privacy anything they see you can see.
They work well. A lot of drunken brawls, even those where they cover their face they can track back and find them on camera up to hours before the event where their face is on show. The same goes for car crime and so on and so fourth.
The decline in mugging in my town, came exactly the same time as the cameras came out. There's a lot worse they could be doing, chipping people, spying on private property, etc.