Only days after the attempted car bombing in Times Square, Senator Charles Schumer and a few others made a proposal to the Obama administration. This was included a proposal to provide at least $30 million in funding for a surveillance program which would blanked midtown Manhattan with security cameras.
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[/caption]"There is nothing more important than keeping New Yorkers safe from an attack. If anything was made clear on Saturday night, it's that New York is a target. We need to do everything in our power to deliver the funding to protect New Yorkers," Schumer said in a statement.
"Although law enforcement officials and politicians insist that security cameras are a valuable tool for keeping the public safe, privacy advocates and some security experts say the cameras not only degrade privacy, but divert resources away from more effective approaches to security," ABC News stated.
Surveillance cameras might be great, however, there are 82 reported surveillance cameras trained on Times Square but none of these helped to prevent the would-be bombing. Privacy advocates are using this as a way to prove their point.
"Times Square is a good example of why these don't work," said John Verdi, senior counsel for the Electronic Privacy Information Center. "It's blanketed with cameras… and yet none of these cameras contributed to preventing the bombing."
ABC News also says, "A 2009 study conducted by California's Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society examined the effectiveness of San Francisco's network of security cameras and found that they didn't reduce violent crime but helped reduce other crimes, such as pick-pocketing and theft."
This is reasonable evidence to believe that surveillance cameras can not really help to prevent these crimes. It's up to the government to find a workable solution.
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