We drove through Bed Stuy and East New York on Saturday on our way to Bracci Fences (more on that later) and noticed, for the first time, some of the NYPD surveillance cameras we’ve been hearing so much about that can pan,tilt and zoom, all the while uploading feeds through the Internet to police HQ. In particular, there were a ton of them along Utica Avenue, including this one at Lincoln Place. The Times questioned how effective the cameras are as a deterent, and the views were mixed, with the benefits appearing to be mostly psychological. We liked the self-preservation sales pitch from one security consultant: “If I put a camera in my store and the mugger goes to the store next door, that’s a win for me.”
The Camera Never Blinks [NY Times] GMAP