Big Brother, Big Schmother, Say Bushwickers
A new NYPD program which aims to install over 500 surveillance cameras in over 250 locations around the city in the next year kicked off with little fanfare in Bushwick last week. The cameras were positioned at three consecutive intersections on Knickerbocker Avenue. While the New York Civil Liberties Union is raising objections, it sounds…
A new NYPD program which aims to install over 500 surveillance cameras in over 250 locations around the city in the next year kicked off with little fanfare in Bushwick last week. The cameras were positioned at three consecutive intersections on Knickerbocker Avenue. While the New York Civil Liberties Union is raising objections, it sounds like residents of Bushwick are willing to trade a sliver of their freedom for a big uptick in safety. “This is like having 24-hour police protection, and we need it,” said Alan Vera, a 27-year-old dispatcher at Bushwick Car Service on Knickerbocker Avenue. “The cameras are great because you never know when there’ s gonna to be a shootout over here,” said De los Santos. We’d be willing to make the same trade on Putnam and Grand.
Here’s Looking at You [NY Post]
NYPD to Add 500 Cameras [Boston Globe]
no one can stop demestic violence cause everyone is n.y defiant!
yo, cameras are fucking stupid.They cant help anyone being raped,beatin,stabed or shot.Personally I think the cameras are for the goverments entertainment.
I think cameras in the street are an invasion of privacy!
Seriously.. What can we do about Clason and Fulton. Cameras? Heck I will buy my own camera’s and paint the NYPD logo on there if that will help. Make some kind of neighborhood pact to bombard them with 411, 911 building department calls. If every resident makes it a point to complain at least once a day would they just get sick of us and clean it up?
There must be 600 building department code violations. I will call it in every day.. just make it some ritualistic thing.. wake up.. brew the coffee.. call the fire department.
And being the liberal/moderate, Democratic populist that I am, I also have no tolerance for crime. 🙂
However, I wonder how effective those cameras will really be? In public places I have no problems with cameras. But when Big Brother puts RFID’s in my clothes and furniture (as “inventory control”), I get very unhappy.
I suspect that people who live in areas with high crime will welcome this development even if if gives others pause. Meanwhile, the 2nd wave of London subway bombers would never have been caught w/o all those identifying images of them taken by ccc.
I live in CH but I own in BS and SH so I’m partial to the entire area as a whole. I never deny the presence of crime in BS. Read my posts. However, being the conservative, elitist, Republican snob that I am, I have a 0% tolerance viewpoint on crime! LOL! 😉
lol Brownbomber aren’t you the one who lives in bs and gets all huffy everytime someone mentions how much crime is in the area lol…
What’s next? Remotely controlled machine guns to accompany the cameras? Is this going to happen in places like East New York and Lefferts now?