From the Queens Gazette:Pomonok Houses in Flushing, a city Housing Authority development, is set to get an infusion of $700,000 to install closed circuit television cameras in buildings that have been identified by the police department as high crime buildings, two Flushing lawmakers announced.
Assemblymember Nettie Mayersohn said she has acquired $500,000 in capital funding for the anti-crime project and state Senator Toby Ann Stavisky received $200,000 in state funds for the project. Stavisky’s funds will be used for the installation of additional cameras in strategic places.
The goal of the funding, the Democratic lawmakers said in a release, is to begin installing cameras in high-crime buildings to reduce crime and improve the quality of life for the residents of the targeted buildings.
Stavisky added. “The residents of Pomonok Houses deserve the peace of mind and security that these surveillance cameras will offer in terms of crime deterrence.” Stavisky added. “The residents of Pomonok Houses deserve the peace of mind and security that these surveillance cameras will offer in terms of crime deterrence.” The cameras, they said, would be strategically placed in specially designated areas that are prone to criminal activity, such as building lobbies, including mail boxes and elevators, interior elevator cabs and building entrances and exits, and also the building exteriors.
12 comments:
the residents should be given pistol permits if the area is so crime ridden.
Maspeth mom says...
$700,000.00 to install it, one $9.00 can of spray paint to destroy it.
If the government pays for your housing - they should have the right to inspect your home at any time (to search for guns and drugs)
People in these project know damn well who the drug dealers and robbers are but they wont tell. They would rather live with the crime.
Where are the so called "Housing Police" we pay for to protect the good residents? If a crime is determined to be being committed by a resident, relative or friend of a resident, that resident should lose their apartment, period.
The Police can be measured and do - so where are these "stats" winding up at? Is Police Comm or Mayor hiding these negative "stats"?
shes so beautiful
Those cameras are SOO easy to break and to repair costs insane amounts.
The "housing police" were merged into the nypd in 1995.At the time there were 3800 cops assigned to the 10 psa's. With bbergs attrition policy(he has permanently downsized the dept by 5500 cops),THere are only about 1000 cops now.
NO SNITCIN',MY NIGGAH!
Instead of installing these expensive cameras, why don't they increase the housing police and install a canine unit? Cameras break, manpower doesn't. These projects can be staffed with rookie NYPD and housing police. Rotate them, so the drug dealers can't pay them off. Much cheaper overall and people are employed. No expensive camera repairs. I'm sure the politicians get a kickback from the surveillance companies anyway, so of course they are eager to spend taxpayer money for these cameras that will be broken in a month.
The cameras were too late to save an innocent person.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/queens/savage_attack_AV1v40YfX4ult6TwrzhyrL
Blanket the Pomonok houses with pictures of Toby Stavinsky. That should scare the criminals away.
Maspeth Mom says...
Defintely rotate the cops otherwise they hookup with women in from the projects, and spend time in their apts instead of patrol.
CAMERAS IN THE PROJECTS IS A SHAME, YOU MAKE IT SEEM LIKE YOUR TRYNG TO WATCH US AS IF WE ARE ANIMAL HOW ABOUT U PATROL THE PROJECTS MORE OFTEN YOUR PRECIENT IS DOWN THE FUCKING STREET
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