New York, NY – These days, cameras peer out from everything from bodegas to restaurants to traffic poles.
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“Surveillance cameras are now a part of our way of life,” said Mitchell Moss, a city expert and director of NYU’s Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management. “Cameras have become the way to manage the public spaces of our city.”
The benefits of cameras came into focus in dramatic fashion this month when surveillance footage led to the capture of the suspected killer of Leiby Kletzky, the 8-year-old Brooklyn boy who was found dead and dismembered.
There is no definitive count, but it is likely there are now tens of thousands – if not hundreds of thousands – of cameras in the city.
In 2006, the New York Civil Liberties Union launched an effort to tally the number of surveillance cameras. But the search was called off after staffers counted 8,000 between the base of Manhattan and 14th St.
“We realized they had become too numerous for us to count,” said executive director Donna Lieberman.
It shows what a lazy, rag-tag bunch they really are. (The NY Civil Liberties Union.) Something that was on their agenda (As if there are no other problems in NYC than the number of cameras.) they stopped at 8,000. It was too difficult for them to continue. This proves that they are no good for anything other than cause trouble.
Let this be a lesson to all those evil doers out there that YES, if you do a crime, YOU WILL BE CAUGHT.
Go into Google Maps and search 466 E 2nd St. brooklyn NY it’ll come up the murders house and his famous car across the street !!!!!
It’s also a warning to people whatever they do, including patronizing the world’s oldest profession that there is a record of it.
don’t forget there is someone in shomayim looking at our every move also.
I live in the UK where there are cameras everywhere. The fact is if you are obeying the law you have nothing to fear. There may be liberty issues but it makes the cities a lot safer when there is proper monitoring and many crimes are solved this way. I prefer that to feeling unsafe.