NYPD security cam in Midtown Manhattan
Taking a cue from London, New York City is planning on blanketing lower Manhattan with security cameras.
Some 100 additional cameras are planned by year's end. The total number of cameras that will eventually be deployed south of Canal Street is estimated at 3,000. This figure takes into account both public and private security cameras in the area.
Some privacy rights groups oppose so many eyes on the public. But security officials counter that, in this post 9/11 world, the more security you can get for areas that are potential terrorist targets, the better.
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Let's hope that this is the only thing Bloomberg wants to pick up from London!!! I can't really see him and Ken Livingstone as bosom buddies!
In that same article they state that London installed these security cameras as a means to combatting terrorism. That may be a partial truth, but let's be honest - the cameras are there to help monitor traffic so that congestion charges can be made. Hmm, isn't NYC going to impose a congestion charge soon too?
I don't feel comfortable with the idea of knowing that when I'm trying to live my life, others are getting a full rundown vis-a-vis these cameras.
Although I support actions taken to combat terrorism and make citizens safer, I'm annoyed that it has to interfere with our privacy.
We should stop being so damned politically correct and take more actions against terrorists/potential terrorists, so that we don't have to start implementing more of this crap that gets in the way of law abiding citizens lives.
Next time I'll have to think twice before I buy fake prada or pick a wedgy.
I have seen talks about the cameras in London and what they are mainly used for.. And it's another means to identify without running a fingerprint...
Seems they scan the faces to match the one on your Drivers license..until they find a match....I don't like that the "man" so to speak is always wondering what we are up to. I mean not all of us are criminals..
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Policing the world for self preservation is a very large, thankless and sometimes covert job. Left to the public opinion the country would fall and then the nay Sayers would be saying why you didn’t do something.
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