Question:
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly wants to put up some 400 surveillance
cameras on high-crime and high-traffic streets to record action to be
reviewed later if a crime occurs in the area, the New York Post said in a
report on Monday. "Plans to use surveillance cameras in the city are being
considered," a police spokesman told Reuters. Locations for cameras have
not yet been finalized but areas likely to be targeted for surveillance
include Manhattan's Herald Square, Times Square and 125th Street in Harlem
as well as busy thoroughfares in the city's other boroughs.
The primary goal of the program would be to drive down crimes such as
assaults and robberies, a police source said, adding that extra scrutiny in
high-profile areas could also be a deterrence to terrorism.
The New York Civil Liberties Union criticized the proposed initiative.
"The plan to install 400 surveillance cameras around the city has all the
earmarks of Big Brother and puts us even closer to becoming an all-out
surveillance society," NYCLU Executive Director Donna Lieberman told Reuters
in a telephone interview. "The only possible use of them is to spy on people
and to help gather evidence after the fact." Lieberman said New York had a bad
record in protecting video evidence, citing a suicide captured on tape by a
hidden camera at a housing project that ended up broadcast over a
sadomasochistic Web site, and a spy camera set up for security at last
summer's Republic National Convention that zoomed in on a tryst in a private
roof garden. "Video surveillance is tempting as a quick fix to all our problems, but it
isn't," she said. "As a society we want to prevent crime and that can be
better done by officers on the street, not with cameras."
Is it a good idea to widely use Police Surveillance Camera?Any comment?
Answer:I can't believe how stupid and clueless the people who believe
everything the government tells them. And I'll bet when the government demands everyone to turn their
guns in, you people will be the first to do it without question.
And now the police are using night vision goggles, giving the
BS it's to catch people without their seat belts. The government
caring about the people's safety would certainly be a first.
Surveillance camera's everywhere, started using night vision
goggles, equals one step closer to the government's goal of
a total police state nation. Be sure to turn in your weapon's if you have any when told to
do so. After all, you won't need them to protect yourself, since
the government will be in charge and own everything.
